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15 Dec, 2014

On Air interview

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Charli XCX gives an interview to Ryan Seacrest during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about her album Sucker. 

The record’s kind of punk-inspired. And it’s partially a comment on the record industry as a whole and how the whole place is basically like a circus. I’m part of it, but not part of it. It’s like a bizarre place.

4 Dec, 2014

Charli XCX interview

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Popsugar interviews Charli XCX about album Sucker and its unusual sound.

For me, I never want to do the same thing twice with anything that I do, particularly with my music. So after my first record, True Romance, came out, I wanted to challenge myself and my audience and push it in a different direction. As a live performer, it’s always been kind of more rock and roll, so I wanted to do something that would complement that it all just kind of made sense for me to go that way. I was in Sweden making songs with some of my best friends, and that was what was coming out. I always like to record quickly, and that kind of music really suits powering through it and just making as many songs as possible. So it was cool. That’s kind of how it ended up there.

1 Dec, 2014

Nylon cover

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charli-xcx-dec-nylon-coverXCX appears on the cover of the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Nylon magazine. She talks about feminism, her confidence, and expressing herself.

There’s a video of me dancing to the Spice Girls with one of those toy microphones when I was, like, four, maybe younger. It’s a classic home video – my dad comes into the frame, and he’s doing high kicks and stuff. It still exists, but nowhere online, thankfully.

1 Nov, 2014

NKD cover

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charli-xcx-nkd-mag-dec-issueXCX appears on the cover of the November 2014 issue of NKD magazine. She talks about her song I Love It, working with Iggy Azalea, and the song Boom Clap.

I feel like we were both seen as underdogs prior to ‘Fancy,’ and now everyone is after us, and I think it’s funny,

31 Oct, 2014

Complex cover

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charli-xcx-complex-coverCharli is profiled for the cover of the October/November Complex. As a female pop star:

There’s always a catch. Like: “Does she really do that? I heard her mum wrote that song.” I read that about Lorde. I’m like: As if! Just because she’s young and successful, why is someone trying to take that away from her? It’s because she’s highly intelligent and a female who’s killing it. She’s doing something different, and people are afraid of that.

3 Oct, 2014

Evening Standard interview

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Charli is interviewed for The Evening Standard:

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost. I think it would be cool for women to feel like they connect to someone who is also a bit scruffy. I’m not clean-cut and perfect, I say dumb shit and I fall over — and I want girls to know that’s cool.

Billboard cover

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Charli graces the cover and talks about charli-xcx-billboard-cover-2014-billboard-bb33-510her plans to work with Rihanna and Gwen Stefani, writing angry music after I Love It charted and redecorating her country mansion in her spare time.

I’ve had to just make cutthroat decisions. I can’t f— around.

Oct 2014

Boom Clap – Marcus Schossow remix

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Marcus Schossow releases his remix of the single, adding progressive-trance style background synths and vocal echo effects for a euphoric sound.

1 Oct, 2014

New York Times interview

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Charli talks about her makeup, skincare, and hair routines:

To be honest, my usual makeup is the same as in my music video looks… It’s pretty much the same at night. Maybe I’ll add more black around my eyes. Or do a different lip, like a fuchsia. Or it’s an idea: I think about the 1990s. I’m a really big fan of movies like “Clueless” and “Jawbreaker.”

Time Out New York interview

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Charli discusses working with Rivers Cuomo, Rostam Batmanglij, and her producer Justin Raisen for the album and where it got its title.

Sucker is about giving the middle finger to everyone who thought I couldn’t be where I am now.

Oct 2014

Nylon magazine

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charli-xcx-nylonCharli talks about Sucker in the magazine’s October ‘It Girl’ issue:

It’s punk-inspired. It’s definitely still a pop album, but there are moments where it is raw and wild. I’m commenting on the music industry, the female body, and money, whereas before I mainly spoke about love. This record definitely feels better informed.

 

DIY Magazine cover

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Charli XCX DIY cover imageCharli features on the October issue’s cover and talks about private jets, VMA parties and top 10 singles:

I feel like an ice cube floating around in a sea of chill. It’s not something that interests me. I really do just want to be in the studio or on tour all the time, and everything else is just beginning to freak me out. I guess that’s what being a pop star is, you know?

25 Sep, 2014

Sucker U.S. tour

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Charli announces she is beginning the U.S. tour for the album. The tour is delayed from its original schedule so Charli could focus more on her album.

Boom Clap is still getting so much love all over the world, which is crazy, and it just makes sense, so I have proper time to focus on the album launch.