At times, Vroom Vroom recalls Britney Spears' Blackout, made in the wake of Spears’ public breakdown. Spears was always assumed to have little agency in her own work, and on that record she toyed brilliantly with ideas of autonomy and unwholesomeness, using sharp lyrics and sharper production to play with the idea of disintegrating identity. These same ideas underpin the PC Music project, and you can hear them at work on Vroom VroomEP. But no one is being done any favors reducing Charli XCX to a vapid cypher, particularly as it drains her vivid personality from the work. The EP bottoms out on the final track "Secret (Shh),” a grime-indebted ooze where she does a generic good-girl-gone-bad routine that yanks all the joy out of misbehaving. Sucker was thrilling because it felt like pop with a death wish, its creator giving her all in the name of sheer recklessness and pure kicks. Vroom Vroom just sounds dead behind the eyes.
It's really boring and annoying tho, so I agree with them, except that score is a bit high maybe. Even Sucker had some decent songs, but this... It's a shame cause I love True Romance.
It's really boring and annoying tho, so I agree with them, except that score is a bit high maybe. Even Sucker had some decent songs, but this... It's a shame cause I love True Romance.
I feel like she's kinda... Deliberately moving away from those sounds. It sucks as True Romance >>
It's a shame cause I love True Romance.
It sucks as True Romance >>