This song is produced by Oscar Holter-an extremely active part of the Max Martin camp-and not really written hugely by myself but by two amazing topliners, Caroline Ailin and Noonie Bao. how i’m feeling now was obviously my quarantine album made in my living room over five weeks by me and two trusted collaborators. I like how drastic the jump was between coming out of how i’m feeling now into this, both sonically and in how they were made. But I do think it established the Cliffs Notes version of what the record is-it's got a darkness to it, and it's very pop. “I think this song deserved to be bigger, but I will always think that of my work. There’s a true connection between us now, in music and in our personal lives.” To do that song with them-two artists who I really feel have such a unique, defiant, and topsy-turvy vision of what pop music is-felt really classic and right for us. I want no convention within sex and love.’ And I like that as a statement right after the sound of a car crash in the previous song. I don't operate in the way that you want me to. We’re saying to the love figure, ‘I haven't got what you need from me, because I am not typical. And actually, this song was recorded a long time ago-pre-pandemic. “Caroline, Christine, and I had worked together many times in different forms, and it was time for the three of us to come together. Caroline Polachek & Christine and the Queens) We-plus the song’s co-producer George Daniel-had been sending a lot of new jack swing beats back and forth, and I knew I wanted this guitar solo, and to add these crazy Janet-esque stabs.” and I got in the studio pretty quickly and knew we needed to make it sound extremely ’80s-if you could bottle the album into one song, this is it. I felt that the title needed a song, so A. He agreed it made sense with the constant car references in my work-and I like the onomatopoeia, I like how it references ‘Boom Clap,’ and I like how it feels much more punchy and in-your-face than how i’m feeling now. Even though he wasn't a huge part of this record, he's still very much my creative confidant. But one day, I was driving in my car and CRASH just came to me, and I called A. “Until maybe a week before I made this song, the album was going to be called Sorry If I Hurt You. Explore Charli’s premium pop with her own track-by-track guide. And I don’t think they would admire me as the artist I am if I just kept giving them what they expected.” It’s time to listen for yourself. So I can’t lie, sometimes it’s a bit of a headfuck, because whilst I absolutely adore them, I don’t make music for them specifically when I’m sat in the studio-I’m making it for me. Because we feel like we’ve been in it together for a really long time, the online discourse can be so vigorous. Plus, I think that there’s an element where they like to root for an underdog, or an on-the-fringes personality like mine. I’ve done so many different things that people are always going to gravitate to certain eras. They are very vocal and very smart, which draws me to them, because they’ve got great taste and amazing ideas-as I found out when doing how i’m feeling now. “It’s a blessing and a curse, to be extremely honest,” she says of her “Angels.” “I’m very lucky to have the fanbase that I have, who are extremely invested in literally every breath I take. Of course, Charli’s notoriously engaged fanbase-with whom she exchanged ideas, including song lyrics, directly online for 2020’s quarantine album how i’m feeling now-would argue she doesn’t need any such validation. I ask myself, am I a likable artist? Am I too opinionated? Do I look too weird? Am I too annoying? If I shut up and put out certain songs and do the right features, will I become more accepted, more liked, more commercial?” “And it’s why I’ve made this entire album, really. “I’ve always questioned myself,” she says. ![]() A bold and refreshingly transparent attempt to move up a few rungs, it’s a considered move also designed to clear up some of Charli’s nagging what-ifs. ![]() An opportunity to utilize a major label’s resources and dress up her left-leaning pop in something ultra luxe. It’s partly, as Charli says, an experiment. CRASH is her fifth studio album, and the final one to be released as part of a longtime record deal. While I’m a very defiant person, I’m also a human, and sometimes I do just want to be accepted, and I don’t understand why I’m not totally-even though sometimes I relish in the fact that I’m not.”Ĭharlotte Aitchison is one of pop music’s more self-aware, self-deprecating, and self-examining artists. ![]() But I also unfortunately know that there’s a vision of who I am in the mainstream’s mind. “Because I know that I would be an excellent humongous pop star. “Right now, I’m still very much restless,” Charli XCX tells Apple Music.
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