Tag: Charli XCX
Girl, so confusing (To Some) That Charli XCX and Lorde Have Joined Forces
While some may be convinced that a Lorde-featuring remix of “Girl, so confusing” is just a red herring to distract from the fact that it’s [Read More…]
A Mean Girl With “Complexity”: Cressida Bitchface
It is both a difficult and rare thing to lend something like “depth” to the proverbial mean girl. More often than not, it simply isn’t [Read More…]
Charli XCX Presents: Brat and it’s the same but there’s three more songs so it’s not
Continuing to prove that she’s pop’s biggest deviant, Charli XCX has not only released a deluxe edition of Brat so soon after its standard edition [Read More…]
Charli XCX Makes BRAT Into Her Own Personal Acronym For: Being Really Attractive & Tumultuous
While the modern meaning of the word “brat” might be “a child, typically one that is badly behaved,” there was a time in its early [Read More…]
“360” Featuring Robyn and Yung Lean Continues to Showcase Charli XCX’s Commitment to the Art of the Remix
A collaboration between Charli XCX and Robyn and Charli XCX and Yung Lean, respectively, has seemed like a long time coming. That said, perhaps Charli [Read More…]
An Ode to It Girls and Sociopathy: Charli XCX’s “360”
In Madonna’s seminal 1990 hit, “Vogue,” she talks about how Rita Hayworth “gave good face.” That’s at least eighty percent of the “job” description of [Read More…]
Just Another Day in Florida: Camila Cabello’s “I LUV IT” Video
After the Cubano-infused stylings of Camila Cabello’s third album, Familia, it seems the singer has decided to pivot to what is now being branded by [Read More…]
The “Toxic” Video for a New, Less Glamorous Era: Charli XCX’s “Von Dutch”
Although Charli XCX’s first album, True Romance, wasn’t released until 2013, she has always exuded the sonic and visual aura of being a daughter of [Read More…]
Charli XCX Creates Her Own Version of CSS’ “City Grrrl” With “In The City”
In 2011, CSS released their third album, La Liberación. Still finding it difficult to recreate the “virality” of 2005’s “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex,” [Read More…]
Bottoms Still Can’t Top But I’m A Cheerleader When It Comes to Queer Satire
Being that the queer film canon remains shockingly scant after all this time, it goes without saying that the even more hyper-specific genre of satirical [Read More…]
