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…]

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…]

“In Real Life, Could The Club Even Handle Us?”: Charli XCX’s How I’m Feeling Now Highlights Creativity and Expression in Quarantine Being More Uninhibited Than in the Outside World

Instantly establishing the thematic precedent for a record that has stemmed from the highly unique scenario of being quarantined (sometimes politely phrased as a “stay-at-home [Read More…]