Tag: Charli XCX discography
Charli XCX’s “Speed Drive” Is Her Most Anti-Environmental Music Video Yet
Becoming something of a “soundtrack queen” (to rival Lana Del Rey), the chart success of “Speed Drive” from Barbie: The Album has prompted Charli XCX [Read More…]
If a (Certain Kind of) Shark Stops Swimming, It Dies; If Charli XCX Stops Evolving in “Used To Know Me,” She Gets Caught in a Bad Romance
Keeping with the current motif in pop culture of how there are many different versions of ourselves (e.g. Anitta’s Versions of Me and Daniels’ Everything [Read More…]
The Pratfalls of Monogamy: Charli XCX Breaks “Every Rule” For “Love”—and with Her Single Release Momentum
Just when you think you’ve finally mastered the choreography to one of Charli XCX’s bops from Crash, she goes and decides to release another song [Read More…]
Yuppie Tribalism (Dance Party in Patrick Bateman’s Apartment): Charli XCX’s “Baby” Video
Perhaps if Patrick Bateman hadn’t given a chapter-long discourse on Whitney Houston’s career trajectory in American Psycho, he would have opted instead to do so [Read More…]
Charli XCX’s Ultra 80s, Girls Just Want to Have Fun-esque “New Shapes” Video
Charli XCX has never kept her love of the 80s (and therefore the decade’s influence on her work) a secret. With the sonic landscape of [Read More…]
“In Real Life, Could The Club Even Handle Us?”: Charli XCX’s How I’m Feeling Now Highlights Creativity and Expression in Quarantine Being More Uninhibited Than in the Outside World
Instantly establishing the thematic precedent for a record that has stemmed from the highly unique scenario of being quarantined (sometimes politely phrased as a “stay-at-home [Read More…]
“I Finally Understand” Lends The Prodigy Flair to Charli XCX’s Oeuvre
Continuing to unveil more finished tracks as we approach May 15, the release of Charli XCX’s “quarantine album,” How I’m Feeling Now, the British pop [Read More…]
Charli XCX’s “Claws” Video: Like “Spicy” But Out of Necessity
If one recalls back to what feels like the oh so long ago year of 2019, one might be able to dig up from the [Read More…]
Charli XCX’s “Forever” Video Is A Fractured, Disjointed Look at the Contrast Between How We Live Now & How We Did Then
As Charli XCX continues her democratic music-making process for an album called How I’m Feeling Now (to be released in mid-May), the British-turned-Angeleno chanteuse has [Read More…]
Charli XCX’s Charli Is That Rare Breed of Album That Makes Non-Cohesion Work
In a music climate that thrives on keeping listeners hooked by constantly releasing new singles, Charli XCX, like Lana Del Rey with Norman Fucking Rockwell, [Read More…]
