Charli XCX

And in the meantime, there's also her spot on the new Giorgio Moroder album!

https://open.spotify.com/track/09Y5FQrv7ldNgXdLPWLJbN

Is there a Charli xcx discussion on another thread? I listen to True Romance all the time but the last one is doing nothing for me

Britishers might find this BBC Three doc she did on feminism diverting (although a lot of it is just tour-diary stuff): http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06qnk6p/charli-xcx-the-fword-and-me

Features only a tiny amount of Charlotte Church, I promise.

Aw man, can only watch this in the UK...

i strangely have not watched yet but heard it was kinda disappointo

I understand the best way to approach this is more 'tour diary' and less 'observations on feminism'? (haven't watched, not in UK)

Bow streaming:

https://www.thefader.com/2015/12/10/mr-oizo-charli-xcx-hand-in-the-fire

http://uk.thefader.com/2016/02/23/charli-xcx-announces-new-label-previews-vroom-vroom-feat-sophie

I'm not really into Vroom Vroom. Hope there is better on the EP.

Excited for the new album which apparently she finished last week.

really not into this EP. the hannah diamond collab sounds like a dance dance revolution track that nobody would intentionally select.

can the pc music joke end soon pls cheers

this EP is a disaster and I say that as a self-admitted Charli diehard who honestly thought she could never do any wrong ever

what even is the pc music joke

every song on the EP is better than the one before it but when you get to the end it still hasn't had time to get good. still interested in the new album!

I hope this EP is her getting this sound out of her system. The thought of her new album being of this quality makes me really sad.

Basically what boxedjoy said.

album stuff i have heard is great, does not sound like EP

i have no evidence on which to base this assertion but i'm sort of thinking (maybe moreso) that the pc music EP might be a between-albums experiment

maybe moreso hoping***

this is bad but on the other hand it's not any worse than the brooke candy song

I mean she's said that SOPHIE's going to be all over her album so regardless of how you feel about this EP I don't think what comes next is going to be any kind of hard left turn away from it.
That said I like the EP quite a bit, even if I understand how other people might find it obnoxious. If nothing else "Secret" feels to me like a really good update of those simmering early-2000s "good girl gone bad" tunes a la "I'm A Slave 4 U"? (Not that I think there's nothing else.) It definitely does get better as it goes along.
idk, it's evident to me by this point that I'm way more in the target demographic for PC Music-type stuff than the typical ILXer. Don't take my word for it.

WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT

NO

I tried really hard getting into the EP but somebody on another forum pointed out "Paradise" sounds like Blümchen and now I'm too sad to play it anymore. The title track is good though

finally listened to this

so disappoint

u_u

so Angry i'ma explode

^I like that.

this sounds like a throwback to ca. 2004 to me

and i love it

2:44 to 2:58 is genius!

New single called After the Afterparty coming tomorrow. I hope it's more inline with Explode rather than the EP.

I hope it sounds exactly like SuperLove which I have listened to approx 500000 times in the last 48 hrs

I don't think it sounds like either tbh

Based on the clip I heard, it sounds more closer to "Boom Clap" than SuperLove, Explode, or the EP.

It also feature Lil Yachty, but I have not heard that part.

xpost Charli has made two of my favourite albums of the decade so far but SuperLove is still my favourite thing she's done by a long long way.

As long as the new single doesn't sound like the EP, I'll be happy.

it's on spotify here. it sounds sort of like miley's "we can't stop" or "die tonight" from sucker with a guest rap

comparing this to Boom Clap is making me imagine a sad, lonely take on going home at the end of the night and it being a bit heartbreaking rather than the never-stop-partying vibes that song title suggests

Not feeling this. Angry Birds song still the best thing from her this year.

sounds like a solid album track, but not feeling it as a single.

Yeah, this would sound fine on her album but I was expecting so much for a lead single. She wasted Explode on the Angry Bird soundtrack.

Charli is releasing a mixtape on Friday. The new songs sound a lot better than I was expecting. Pull Up should have been the lead single from the proper album.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04w4f3m

these are still all produced by sophie & stargate aren't they? shocking how much better than they are than vroom vroom & after the afterparty

the producers she shouted out on mista jam were danny l. harle, sophie, a.g. cook, klaus ahlund and john hill

She's dead to me.

i will listen for the cupcakke feature

Sounds like she's quickly losing patience with her record company. I've no idea why they didn't identity Pull Up as the obvious single. I've had it stuck in my head since last night. All three of the songs they played are so far are ahead of anything she did last year. I'm feeling very relieved.

a few bangers on this mixtape for sure

She's dead to me.

Charli + Klas sounds super-promising to me

i'm 2/3rds into the mixtape and i like it a lot!

Holy shit, this album is fiery trash.

jaw just dropped at how abysmal "roll with me" is

i mean it's all pretty bad but that song is a new level of terrible

finished it. what a dreadful release. don't get why she enjoys industry support given everything she's released outside of "boom clap" has flopped, and her cult fanbase is baffling given that she's long had no discernible artistic voice beyond desperate trend-hopping