Tag: Charli XCX Crash
Mondo Bullshittio #53: Charli XCX Not Making Billboard’s List of Greatest Pop Stars of the Twenty-First Century
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture…and all that it affects. [Read More…]
Charli XCX Doing A Skims Ad Campaign Is More Crash Than Brat
During one of her many interviews about Brat, Charli XCX mentioned being committed to whatever “character”/“persona” she’s trying on for her album of the moment. [Read More…]
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…]
Symphorophiliac Is the New Black: Tove Lo Takes J. G. Ballard’s Crash to A Different Level in “Borderline”
When last we left Tove Lo’s jilted robot lover in the Alaska-directed video for Dirt Femme’s second single, “No One Dies From Love,” Annie 3000 [Read More…]
Charli XCX Makes the Case for Mattress Shopping in “Hot In It”
Because Charli XCX is a “90s girl” at heart (hear: “1999”), it’s to be expected that she would come up with a concept as “retro” [Read More…]
Charli XCX’s Assessment of Herself As the Voice of a Generation on “Hot In It” Is More Accurate Than Lena Dunham Once Saying the Same
Known for her tongue-in-cheek bravado (especially during the Crash era), Charli XCX has truly perfected the art through her latest single with Tiësto, “Hot In [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…]
Crash All Over Again With Charli XCX’s Deluxe Edition of the Album
Not one to lose control of her creamy smooth pop icon goddess (yes, that’s a Madonna reference) status, Charli XCX has followed the release of [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…]
