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66 postsCharli 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!
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.
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
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.
Club Killers remix the single, adding a synth line, trap bassline and staccato high hat.
https://soundcloud.com/clubkillers/charli-xcx-boom-clap-club-killers-twerk-mix
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.
Charli releases the single Break The Rules:
(It’s a) badass anthem for all the naughty people in the world.
Aeroplane adds a nu disco effect to the single.
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.
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!
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.
Charli and Azalea perform their song Fancy at Wembley Stadium for the Capital FM Summertime Ball.
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.
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.
Charli releases the ASTR remix for the single from Sucker and The Fault In Our Stars soundtrack.
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