For her third LP ‘Charli,’ the pop princess learned to be vulnerable without losing her weirder pop sensibilities
and Lizzo appear alongside Petras, Tommy Cash, Clairo, Brooke Candy and more. Each person has had some personal connection to XCX over the year and were more than just in-and-out features. Chris of Christine and the Queens talked about XCX’s music in an interview and co-wrote much of “Gone,” helping transform the song. Ferreira helped complete “Cross You Out,” a collaboration many years in the making.
“There’s always been a lot of paths crossing with us,” Charli explains. The pair had appeared on magazine covers together, played at the same shows and worked with some of the same producers on their debut albums. “When I wrote part of the idea for ‘Cross You Out,’ I thought ‘This is the one.’ I actually sent it to her immediately and she was into it.”
As for Sivan, with whom she had released the single “1999” last October, she knew she wanted to do something weirder with him. “I was like ‘Okay, I love you and I love this song. It’s so fun, but now we have to do something for the gays. Let’s go.’” They re-teamed for “Even with all the other voices shaping the album, XCX’s vision and personal journey is never drowned out. To become a better songwriter, she became better at talking about the personal issues plaguing her.
“Artists talk a lot about physical insecurities and body image, which I think is so great and so important, but I think there’s a lot of emotional insecurity as an artist that’s difficult to talk about because nobody wants to sound ungrateful,” she explains. “I don’t think artists talk about how volatile our state of mind is. I feel like this album is the time I stopped thinking about everything and started saying what is in my mind.
Analyzing her emotional state and putting it into her music has helped alleviate much of her anxiety, but she knows that’s only half the struggle.In This Article:
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