Charli XCX

"break the rules" was good, "boom clap" was shit and you could tell even charli was passing time until she could get it done with

like, if you are performing "boom clap" it has to be BOOM! CLAP! and not "boom, clap, whatever, can I deploy the collapsible prom dress yet"

i def agree with that point haha

"breaking up" is out now as well - i'm really excited to hear this album

so here for her nonchalant, letters to cleo phase

Bloom Clap is great you guys

maybe it was just an effect of hearing it through the computer speakers but it seemed like her vocals were mixed really high in Boom Clap. some singers would be "revealed" unflatteringly by that but not Charli.

Breaking Up strikes me as corny, but I'll probably like it later.

love it. it IS a bit corny...but like, folks, were we expecting joni mitchell understatement here?

Nah, I kinda know what her trip is these days, but even for Charli v3.0 it's kinda corny.

Gold Coins!! Yes.

very joan jett. not a fan of the "off" chord changes in the chorus but the rest is pretty great.

also very cristina/ze records! i wonder if charli's ever heard this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY9Fcln60Jw

Some of this album sounds like Transvision Vamp. Not saying that's good or bad. It just does.

i liked boom clap more upon realizing that it's like stay away brought out into the sunlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fkt91iye4c

i like everything i've heard from the album so far except "break the rules" so :D

getting the transvision vamp thing loud and clear on that one

oh man that rules

I'm still not sure about "Breaking Up", I feel like I'm always behind with Charli XCX, like my favorite song is always two before the latest one. Right now "Break The Rules" is the one that does it for me.

FEWMIN at the delayed UK release of the album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImGHYBcKoGA

What a terrible show

yeah it's p much the worst

It was good at one point like a decade ago.

"I don't usually want to work with other girl writers - but she had my vibe," Stefani told Rolling Stone.

....tmi?

http://diymag.com/2014/12/08/charli-xcx-reveals-more-tracks-from-sucker

Wait, it's not coming out until January now?

Oh, phew. The US release date is still December 15th.

the songs arent playing in that link blahhhhhh

grrrr

http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/charli-xcx-sucker-famous/

ty tracerhand that one works!

love these

she is the meeting point between joan jett and cyndi lauper and I LOVE IT

i love it so much

The album is streaming on iTunes.

Oh wow, I finally got one of these First Play things to work!

Doing It is delicious.

one play in i'm pretty impressed. the production is very pleasing to the ear and it's all very hooky. just as i thought things were starting to drag toward the end she started doing some truly bizarre things with her voice. tentative impression: i think i will probably like this better than true romance in the end.

Oh damn, this is something isn't it?

Charli's talked a lot about worshipping Britney Spears and about Blackout being her favourite album of all time, and I think "Doing It" is the first time that idolisation has come across really strongly.

Album sounded fantastic on first play.

this is so great

FUCK YOU

SUCKER

this is the album i hoped 1989 would be (and isn't, except for "style," imo). not in literal style/sound so much as being a just knockdown-amazing-no duds pop album.

I'm in the middle of this and so far I'm loving the "new" tracks. Still nothing yet beats "Superlove" and I'm still annoyed it's not on the album.

i love "superlove" but i can undestand why it was left off.

xp i had that thought re: 1989 too! like there's only maybe one song i might possibly want to trim from this

whereas i had to excise like 25% of 1989 to make it palatable

Agree that there is nothing as good as Superlove on here but this album really is fantastic. London Queen and Break the Rules are probably my least my favourite songs. Doing It is the big highlight, incredible song.

I love London Queen.