Tag: Charli XCX
Charli XCX’s “Forever” Video Is A Fractured, Disjointed Look at the Contrast Between How We Live Now & How We Did Then
As Charli XCX continues her democratic music-making process for an album called How I’m Feeling Now (to be released in mid-May), the British-turned-Angeleno chanteuse has [Read More…]
Nature (Semi-)Triumphs Over Machinery in “White Mercedes” Video
Again showing a strange reverence for nature by performing destructive acts within it (see: “2099” video), Charli XCX returns with another single from Charli, “White [Read More…]
“2099” Video Looks More Like 1997 as Jet Skis Seem to Make Some Unwitting Statement About Present Behavior’s Effects on the Future
As Charli XCX keeps the singles coming from Charli (in particular with Troye Sivan), her sequel, after a fashion, to “1999”–called “2099”–isn’t exactly the most [Read More…]
Charli XCX’s Charli Is That Rare Breed of Album That Makes Non-Cohesion Work
In a music climate that thrives on keeping listeners hooked by constantly releasing new singles, Charli XCX, like Lana Del Rey with Norman Fucking Rockwell, [Read More…]
What Is Love? Clean Bandit Tries Their Best to Answer
With the swelling opener to What Is Love?, “Symphony,” Clean Bandit seems to say, “Don’t worry, we’ve returned.” For yes, it’s somehow been four years since [Read More…]
Reggae-Infused, Clean Bandit’s “Playboy Style” Featuring Charli XCX and Bhad Bhabie Would Make Alright, Still-Era Lily Allen Proud
It’s not always advisable for anyone with a blanco skin tone to attempt to dabble in reggae (Sublime and 311 come to mind). And yet, [Read More…]
The Video for Charli XCX and Troye Sivan’s Reminds Us Just How Much the 90s Were Capitalism At Its Frivolous Best
Nobody likes a capitalist–anymore. Mainly because, in this day and age, it’s impossible to become one with the limited high-paying job positions available that don’t [Read More…]
Where Prince’s “1999” Looked to the Future, Charli XCX & Troye Sivan’s “1999” Pleads for a Return the Past
When Prince released the album 1999 in the final months of 1982, the world was edging ever closer to that apocalyptic year George Orwell had [Read More…]
Tove Lo’s “Bitches”: Are We Getting Closer to or Further Away from a Matriarchy With A Video that Reveals We Still Need to Be Teaching Men How to Give Head?
On the one hand, the idea that a guy is amenable to being “taught” the tricks of the tongue trade when it comes to pussy [Read More…]
“Girls” Is Neither A Fitting Homage to “Lady Marmalade” Nor Genuine In Its Fair-weather Bisexuality
Long ago, during a time when George W. Bush was coming to the twilight of his presidency and presumably thinking about, well, not much of [Read More…]
