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Celeb News: SLATE Analyzes: Iggy Azalea, Charli XCX, Fancy Success
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SLATE Analyzes: Iggy Azalea, Charli XCX, Fancy Success
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"Musically speaking, Charli XCX, on the left, is the real standout on the no. 1 hit by Iggy Azalea (right)."On #1 Fancy
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As a pop-radio dominator, “Fancy” has two big things going for it: tight production and a great supporting performer.
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But of all the talents swirling around “Fancy,” the song’s true MVP is its featured performer, Charlotte Aitchison, aka Charli XCX, possessor of the Gwen Stefani–like voice that coos the song’s sticky hook.
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Compared to Charli’s monster hook, Azalea’s rapping is the track’s weaker sister. Iggy may be a more confident rapper than Debbie Harry in 1981, but she also sounds like she’s trying really hard.
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But what’s grating over the length of Azalea’s album The New Classic is more charming on a supple pop single; her effortfulness kind of works here.
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Ultimately, the success of “Fancy” is owed largely to timing, which is the dark art of major-label pop promotion.
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As if stirring the pot, Billboard noted that Azalea is the first act to capture the chart’s top two positions with her first two Hot 100 hits since the Beatles. Any Billboard feat involving a modern pop act and the phrase “since the Beatles” is guaranteed to rile up chart nerds, but the record is a footnote and an accident—for both acts. It’s no proud statistic for the Fab Four, who didn’t chart in America until early 1964 only because the band’s U.S. label refused to promote its records here sooner; once Beatlemania reached American shores, a flood of singles on multiple labels rushed the Hot 100, sending “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” to the top two positions even though other Beatles singles should have charted earlier. And Azalea should have scored lower-charting hits as far back as 2011, except that complicated label politics, and a slew of tracks recorded under prior contracts but withheld from promotion, essentially kept her off the radio more than two years, before Island Records finally sent her into the studio to record her “official” debut.
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On Iggy Azalea
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As if leaning into the criticism, Iggy unleashes the bravado within “Fancy’s” first 10 seconds, in the song’s most memorable and oft-quoted rhyme: “First things first: I’m the realest,” a statement laced with either unwitting irony or sardonic self-commentary—probably both.
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They say that good artists copy and great artists steal. Azalea is, at her best, a competent copycat, and she’s unafraid to insert herself into the lineage of rap’s greats. Her line about a rooftop in ’88 isn’t nostalgia for a time before Azalea was born: It’s an allusion to a rhyme by Nas.
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The other act Azalea’s being freely compared to this summer, thanks to her hit duopoly, is Summer 2013 dominator Pharrell Williams.....But Azalea isn’t a supporting performer on “Fancy,” she’s the lead. And anyway she doesn’t have the decades of history Pharrell built as a writer-producer—if anyone right now deserves the X-factor designation, it’s Charli XCX.
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For Blondie in 1981, “Rapture” came at the end of a great two-year run as New Wave’s biggest band; neither the group nor Debbie Harry came anywhere near Billboard’s Top 10 again. Shambling rap may have closed their career, but now it’s 2014, not 1981. If Iggy Azalea truly is “the realest,” a career as hip-hop’s leading lady is now hers to lose.
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Iggy Azalea's career is interesting to watch especially since I was checking in on her since her youtube, ASAP Rocky days. Molanphy makes some great points.
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Not surprised this was posted by you but...
Iggy doesn't give a crap about what the press say  non-believers stay mad as hell.
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If Iggy Azalea truly is “the realest,” a career as hip-hop’s leading lady is now hers to lose.
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I guess it really is up to the Iggster now!  As it has always been tbh, & looking at her solo single Work already climbing for 5 weeks to #53 on the Hot 100 with no radio support I'd say it's looking good 
Hopefully people can stop saying "Charli gets no credit" as that's obviously not true tho, slay a bit too!  Iggy helping other talented female artists careers on her Beatles-sized slayage path, Mother Teresa of the music industry teas. 
Lol at the OP still lurking Iggy stuff, undercover stan ICU. 
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Yas Charli
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Not surprised this was posted by you but...
Iggy doesn't give a crap about what the press say non-believers stay mad as hell. |
Carly Rae Jepsen has a #1 song too.
You tried
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Carly Rae Jepsen has a #1 song too.
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No lies spotted! 
These critics have been dragging her through the pits lately though.
Interesting 
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Get that acclaim Charlotte!
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Carly Rae Jepsen has a #1 song too.
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Why are you shading Carly Rae tho?  Call Me Maybe is actually on the music history books, how is that bad & when will your fave?
And Iggy already has an extremely different career to Carly anyway. Not to mention she is a female rapper... 
Very weak attempt to discredit someone's success.
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Carly Rae Jepsen has a #1 song too.
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The best part is people on ATRL doubted her 
Queen is here. Breaking records with Fancy and slaying with Problem
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I guess it really is up to the Iggster now! As it has always been tbh, & looking at her solo single Work already climbing for 5 weeks to #53 on the Hot 100 with no radio support I'd say it's looking good
Hopefully people can stop saying "Charli gets no credit" as that's obviously not true tho, slay a bit too! Iggy helping other talented female artists careers on her Beatles-sized slayage path, Mother Teresa of the music industry teas.
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I don't have to like her music or her persona to be interested in her place in American pop culture. The main thing I'm interested in is the fact that she's managed to get a #1 and people are running behind her. I EDUCATE myself with someone I'm turned off by rather than spew out vapid "shade" or catty remark. Or Chart stats. I'm not ignorant about things I don't like I figure out WHY. Just as much I look for why I do like things.
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Why are you shading Carly Rae tho? Call Me Maybe is actually on the music history books, how is that bad & when will your fave?
And Iggy already has an extremely different career to Carly anyway. Not to mention she is a female rapper...
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I wanted to use Vanilla Ice's example but Iggy stans possibly don't know him 
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The best part is people on ATRL doubted her
Queen is here. Breaking records with Fancy and slaying with Problem |
Problem could be #1 single even without Iggy
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Originally posted by HERMES
I don't have to like her music or her persona to be interested in her place in American pop culture. The main thing I'm interested in is the fact that she's managed to get a #1 and people are running behind her. I EDUCATE myself with someone I'm turned off by rather than spew out vapid "shade" or catty remark. Or Chart stats. I'm not ignorant about things I don't like I figure out WHY. Just as much I look for why I do like things.
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I just think it's funny how someone has so much time to waste on a subject like this they supposedly dislike a lot, since it doesn't really affect your life.
But welp she is very controversial indeed, probably one of the most controversial musical acts in recent times actually, and is already in the record books too so okay girl, you better care, go ahead & educate yourself on the legendary miss Iggy Azalea!!
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Vanilla Ice is iconic and you certainly still remember him tho?  Again, will your fave ever? but anyway, Iggy also already has a very different career to his so you can try again.
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Problem could be #1 single even without Iggy
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coulda, woulda, shoulda
Facts: She is featured on it & you'll just have to deal with her record-breaking ways.
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My XCX Queen Slaying Yet Again
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Charli overshadowing girls on their own songs.
Who'da thunk?
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Get that deserved praise, Charlotte!
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Originally posted by ~ joão.
I just think it's funny how someone has so much time to waste on a subject like this they supposedly dislike a lot, since it doesn't really affect your life.
But welp she is very controversial, probably one of the most controversial musical acts in recent times actually, and is already in the record books too so okay girl, you better care, go ahead & educate yourself on the legendary miss Iggy Azalea!!
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So you're my keeper? You know how I go about my day and what I deem a waste of time? Just face the fact that Iggy Azalea is far from perfect and there are people that don't like her. Or you can go repost her #1 stats in her fanbase thread because this thread is discussing the content in the Slate article.
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Carly Rae Jepsen has a #1 song too.
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Difference between Iggy and Carly is that The New Classic has been selling great for a new artist and its soared back into the Billboard 200 top 10 several times. People are buying her ALBUM. I know you dont know what that is since ATRL only looks at the hot 100.
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Not surprised this was posted by you but...
Iggy doesn't give a crap about what the press say non-believers stay mad as hell. |
She sure responds to everything the press says.
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