Charli XCX.
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Charli XCX is so over it. The pop star is a very British cool girl, which means she’s blasé to her bones. In her new British Vogue cover story, Charli expresses a general ennui toward pop stardom. For someone who has never been more famous — after years of trying to arrive at this level of notoriety — she’s now well aware of the downsides. Basically, it’s all gotten monotonous. While she’s been working on her upcoming eighth album, which will be a rock-and-roll record, she’s gotten bored.
Below is an interesting list of everything that Charli is over.
Charli’s next album will be a departure from pop. She’s teasing fewer electronic instruments and more guitars. Why the pivot? Because dance music is over, obviously. “I think the dance floor is dead,” she says, “so now we’re making rock music.” Maybe that’s because her last album, Brat, was a wild success as a hardcore dance record. “If I’d made another album that felt more dance-leaning,” Charli adds, “it would have felt really hard, really sad.”
Charli married the 1975 drummer George Daniel last year, but don’t expect the upcoming rock album to be about him. “I don’t really want to write songs about my husband forever,” she says. “I’m not sure how interesting that is, and he knows that.” She’s more likely to write about the idea of being in a marriage rather than the actual guy. “If I write about our relationship, I’m probably only really interested in writing about some of the more obscure feelings of being married,” she says.
A few years ago, on Dua Lipa’s podcast, Charli expressed a desire to play bigger venues. “I haven’t quite reached the level of playing arenas as a headliner myself, but maybe the next album, who knows?” she said. Now, she’s playing sold-out arenas and over it. “I never thought I’d play arenas in my life, and who knows if I will again,” she says. “Maybe I won’t, but after you’ve done a few, you’re like [sigh] ‘Oh, this place.’ It really happens.” Sorry, Barclays Center.
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