If this is how we party now, pops reigning futurist is here for it.
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(Its official, folks: Mash-ups are back with a vengeance for 2020.)
But thats neither here nor there.
If this is how we party now, Charli XCX is here for it.
I start thinking, Why?
I am so purposeless.
Isolation suits her better than shed expected.
Obviously, I wish this wasnt the situation were all in, she tells me.
Charli asks when Paris tells her shes been getting into cooking.
Sliving lasagna, Paris replies in her signature sexbot drone.
Sliving is my new trademark.
Its the new thats hot.
It means slaying and living.
(Theres arecipe.)
Theres an openness to the creative process that is unusual for an artist of Charlis stature.
But shes relishing the autonomy of making music outside the bubble of label machinations.
Im lucky I am very self-sufficient, and a lot of my collaborators are the same, she says.
We need to be left alone to feel the most creative.
I dont enjoy taking professional peoples opinions, she adds, letting out a mischievous giggle.
The fact that Im not getting them right now is justgreat.
Im hard-pressed to name a pop star as uniquely suited to the challenge that Charli has constructed for herself.
Were all a little bit troll-y with how we like to communicate, she explains.
We laugh at what we create, but were very serious about it at the same time.
I am feeling the pressure today.
The stress loomed on her Zoom conference the next morning.
Ive just got to make stuff now.
It would appear she has indeed been making stuff.
A few hours after our call, Charlitweetsa tentative ten-song track list.
No, 2012, says a mans muffled voice in the background.
After the final NYC show, everyone hung out at a bar next to the Bowery Ballroom.
So we spent the next few years being really into each other from afar but having really bad timing.
She has grown acclimated to recording verses about Kwong knowing hes sitting in the next room.
That demo turns out to be i finally understand, which drops a week before the release date.
Its the albums coolest song yet, somewhere between U.K. 2-step and late-90s Eurodance.
This feeling that Ive found might kill me, goes the hook.
Its highs and lows feel like a solid representation of Charlis process.
And Ive been constantly beating myself up whenever I take a break.
Its been quite heavy.
For years, Charlis records have made the case that the future is now, if you want it.
But it just feels like normality.
Besides, you havent really partied till youve partied through an apocalypse.
