Charli XCX

XCX 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

On Air With Ryan Seacrest Ryan Seacrest Music Performance TV Appearance

Charli 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.

27 Oct, 2014

Meaning of XCX

Charli XCX talks about her name during On Air With Ryan Seacrest.

7 Oct, 2014

Webster Hall performance

Charli plays the New York venue, performing her singles, some new songs from the album, a cover of Money (What I Want), and the collaborations I Love It and Fancy.

6 Oct, 2014

London Queen

Charli releases the track London Queen from the Sucker LP. She describes the sound:

(It’s like a) future Ramones.

VH1 Buzz performance

Charli performs her single Break The Rules on Big Morning Buzz Live, hosted by Nick Lachey.

Lookin' good in the #BuzzBooth @charli_xcx!!

3 Oct, 2014

Evening Standard interview

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

Charli graces the cover and talks about her 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

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

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

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.

Break The Rules Tiesto remix

Mixmag premieres the Tiesto remix of Charli’s single. The song features EDM-style bassline and breakdowns.

Oct 2014

Nylon magazine

Charli 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

Charli 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?

27 Sep, 2014

Debuts songs at Orlando show

Charli debuts six new tracks at her show in Orlando, titled Sucker, Famous, Caught In The Middle, I Need Your Love, Money and Gold Coins.

25 Sep, 2014

Sucker U.S. tour

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.

22 Sep, 2014

Sucker delayed until Dec. 16

Charli announces that the release has been pushed back to Dec. 16 in the U.S. and Jan. 26 in the UK and Europe.

‘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. The support I’ve received this year has been mind-blowing. As you know, I’ll also be supporting Katy Perry on her European arena tour in February!

19 Sep, 2014

MTV EMA nominations

Charli is nominated for Best New Artist and Best Push. MTV:

She’s fiercely committed to constantly evolving her sound so her music is never boring and predictable.

18 Sep, 2014

Track of the Day

BBC Radio 1 selects Break The Rules as its track of the day:

Our #TrackOfTheDay today is 'Break The Rules' from @charli_xcx. What do you think of this one? https://t.co/5DuYKIiKfs

— BBC Radio 1 (@BBCR1) September 18, 2014

Sep 2014

Charli appears on the September cover and talks about writing Sucker in a hotel in Sweden, working with Rivers Cuomo and Rostam Batmanglij and whether she thinks the days are gone when sexism dictated the media profile of female pop stars:

I wish I could say yes, but I don’t think so. Maybe it is just a pop music thing, but I don’t feel like it’s changed. Now, more than ever, I get songs sent to me by people who think they should be writing my songs for me. In interviews, people are surprised when I say I wrote something myself. That is frustrating. They automatically assume I didn’t in the first place.

Boom Clap – Club Killers remix

Club Killers remix the single, adding a synth line, trap bassline and staccato high hat.

3 Sep, 2014

New York Times interview

Charli talks about her growing mainstream appeal, creating a Justin Bieber shrine at art school, eating fried chicken for breakfast and making the new album.

Part of the stuff that I do, the V.M.A.s and the events, is definitely a circus. I don’t care about belonging to it, not at all.

Aug 2014

Break The Rules

Charli releases the single Break The Rules:

(It’s a) badass anthem for all the naughty people in the world.

25 Aug, 2014

Boom Clap – Aeroplane remix

Aeroplane adds a nu disco effect to the single.

Rolling Stone feature

Rolling Stone spends time with Charli as she prepares for the MTV Video Music Awards performance, including being made up and preparing for the 40-minute set where she will walk off the stage, down a red carpet and onto a podium where drummers are playing. Charli:

I think it’s going to be fine. All the girls I’m performing with look so dope. It’s going to be cool. I’m just worried about if I’m going to fall.

24 Aug, 2014

Boom Clap performance

On Air With Ryan Seacrest Ryan Seacrest Interview

Charli performs the track at the MTV Awards event.

21 Aug, 2014

Charli XCX interview

Seacrest interviews Charli XCX during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her on why she almost put ghost sounds on her album Sucker.

I was in Sweden in the countryside doing some recording for my record. There was this weird vibe in this house. It was actually this huge hotel we were staying in, kind of like The Shining. We had done some research and found out that there was a woman who had drowned herself in the lake outside the house when her husband had died in the 1900s. In this documentary, it said that she still lived in the house as a ghost. So we set up a microphone and left it recording all night and at about 5 or 6 a.m., we picked up this noise that was like, ‘Oooohhhhh.’ We pitched it up three octaves and it was a woman’s voice talking it was cool!

30 Jul, 2014

Boom Clap performance

Charli performs a live version for Transmitter.

17 Jul, 2014

Fancy – Gary Oldman cover

Iggy Azalea Music Performance TV Appearance

Oldman records a cover of the track for Capital FM.

11 Jul, 2014

North American tour dates

Dates are announced for a 20-show Sucker tour, starting Sept. 26 in Orlando at The Social and finishing up in San Francisco at Slim’s on Oct. 25 after taking in New York, Montreal and Toronto, Philadelphia, Boston, Houston, and other cities.

10 Jul, 2014

Fancy performance

Charli and Azalea perform their song Fancy at Wembley Stadium for the Capital FM Summertime Ball.

Sonos Studios performance

Charli performs a set at Sonos Studio that includes You’re The One, Take My Hand, Boom Clap and a cover of I Want Candy.

7 Jul, 2014

Boom Clap performance

Charli performs the single on Late Night With Seth Myers.

T Magazine interview

Charli gives an interview for New York Times T Magazine and talks about being compared to a young Madonna:

Madonna was someone who didn’t get put in a box. She changed and evolved. The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that. One thing I don’t understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that’s terrible and boring.

Boom Clap – ASTR remix

Charli releases the ASTR remix for the single from Sucker and The Fault In Our Stars soundtrack.

2 Jun, 2014

Boom Clap

Charli releases the single Boom Clap. The song is featured on the soundtrack for the film The Fault in Our Stars.

I’ve had that song for about a year, I wrote it with Patrick Berger

19 May, 2014

The Fault in Our Stars event performance

Jimmy Kimmel Live Music Performance TV Appearance

Charli performs the track at the live stream event for The Fault In Our Stars.

16 May, 2014

Fancy performance

Charli and Iggy perform the track for Jimmy Kimmel Live.

22 Apr, 2014

Fancy performance

Good Morning America Iggy Azalea Music Performance TV Appearance

Charli and Azalea perform the single for Good Morning America.

18 Mar, 2014

Fancy – Late Night With Seth Meyers

Charli and Iggy perform the single on Late Night:

16 Mar, 2014

MTV Woodie Awards performance