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Charli XCX: "Lorde and I are shaking **** up"
Charli XCX talked about her new album's direction, female competition in the pop business and mentiones Lorde.
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“That [punk] album wasn’t scrapped or anything,” she adds. “It morphed into a new thing, there are elements of punk on this pop record that I’m making. A couple of songs that were originally on that punk record are on the album. I want to release an EP of the super punk **** that I did. It hasn’t gone away completely or anything, and I transferred a lot of it over to the main record.”
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Charli XCX is a chaotic presence. She’s slightly scatty, very sweary, and not afraid to speak her mind. Charli XCX, in fact, is everything that a media-trained, perfectly preened pop star is not. “I’m not the classic pop star,” she agrees. “I’m very scruffy and late and messy.” A little like Tai Fraiser – the role she took on in the Clueless inspired video for Iggy Azalea collaboration ‘Fancy’ – then? “Yes!” she snorts. “Tai is cool, Tai’s the ****! I’m literally on a photo shoot right now wearing someone’s old boxers, no bra and a San Francisco t-shirt. Yeah, I feel like I am the Tai Fraiser of the pop world, and I think girls need that. I wrote this record for girls, and for everyone on the planet with a *****.
“I want them to feel a sense of empowerment,” she adds. “I feel like this record is very feminine, and I remember when I first began writing it I wanted to write an album that I would’ve been obsessed with when I was 14. I would love to see a punk revolution, and loads of 14-year-old girls with shaved heads. I would love for girls to be able to celebrate this record.” [...] With pop music in particular, “it feels like there has to be one top female,” she sighs. “There’s this idea of women beating each other down, which I don’t think is very progressive. I don’t think it’s something that female pop stars really give a **** about, but feels like there’s this weird myth that’s being spun around us, that we all ****ing hate each other, just,” she laughs, “because we all have vaginas. It’s something that I feel is being spoken about a lot more, but it’s not vanishing quickly. There is a wave of highly intelligent female artists coming through that run their own careers, rocking the boat. I think it’s cool that people like myself and Lorde are shaking **** up and changing the landscape.”
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