{"id":420024,"date":"2022-03-22T20:24:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/charli-xcx-embraces-pop-like-never-before-on-crash\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T20:24:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:24:43","slug":"charli-xcx-embraces-pop-like-never-before-on-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/charli-xcx-embraces-pop-like-never-before-on-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"#Charli XCX embraces pop like never before on CRASH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a283f209b5a4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/charli-xcx-embraces-pop-like-never-before-on-crash\/#%E2%80%9CCharli_XCX_embraces_pop_like_never_before_on_CRASH%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Charli XCX embraces pop like never before on CRASH&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/charli-xcx-embraces-pop-like-never-before-on-crash\/#The_UK_stars_relationship_to_the_mainstream_is_complicated_but_her_fifth_album_makes_it_look_easy\" >The U.K. star\u2019s relationship to the mainstream is complicated, but her fifth album makes it look easy.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCharli_XCX_embraces_pop_like_never_before_on_CRASH%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Charli XCX embraces pop like never before on CRASH&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_UK_stars_relationship_to_the_mainstream_is_complicated_but_her_fifth_album_makes_it_look_easy\"><\/span>The U.K. star\u2019s relationship to the mainstream is complicated, but her fifth album makes it look easy.  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-230366\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/CRASH_ALBUM_ARTWORK_1_scppye\/charli-xcx-crash-review.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/CRASH_ALBUM_ARTWORK_1_scppye\/charli-xcx-crash-review.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/CRASH_ALBUM_ARTWORK_1_scppye\/charli-xcx-crash-review.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/CRASH_ALBUM_ARTWORK_1_scppye\/charli-xcx-crash-review.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/CRASH_ALBUM_ARTWORK_1_scppye\/charli-xcx-crash-review.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/CRASH_ALBUM_ARTWORK_1_scppye\/charli-xcx-crash-review.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/CRASH_ALBUM_ARTWORK_1_scppye\/charli-xcx-crash-review.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/CRASH_ALBUM_ARTWORK_1_scppye\/charli-xcx-crash-review.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/CRASH_ALBUM_ARTWORK_1_scppye\/charli-xcx-crash-review.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/CRASH_ALBUM_ARTWORK_1_scppye\/charli-xcx-crash-review.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/CRASH_ALBUM_ARTWORK_1_scppye\/charli-xcx-crash-review.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Charli XCX embraces pop like never before on &lt;I&gt;CRASH&lt;\/i&gt;\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-230363\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            If Charli XCX had gorged on all that pop stardom had to offer when it was first presented to her on a silver platter nearly a decade ago, she would be unrecognizable by now. That isn\u2019t to say that she wouldn\u2019t have been able to convincingly slide into the Main Pop Girl role post-\u201dBoom Clap\u201d and \u201cFancy\u201d in the early 2010s \u2013 she might have actually done so a little too meticulously. From the very beginning of her mainstream presence, Charli has demonstrated a monstrous natural instinct for the melodic and lyrical structures that reflect the best of what pure pop music has to offer. She even had the quintessential Tumblr It Girl image on lock. And once she was signed into a five-album recording contract with Atlantic Records, she had all of the resources (read: money and access) she could possibly need to dominate as one of the genre\u2019s most prolific figureheads. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            But the give and take relationship between an artist and a major label is not without compromise. If Charli had played by the music industry rules, performing all of the big-budget, choreography-heavy, and aesthetic-driven pop girl duties that would have been asked of her, the artistic freedom that has afforded her the signifier of futuristic pop disrupter over the past half-decade would likely have been siphoned from her in the process. \u201cIf I wanted to make loads of fucking money, I\u2019d make the whole album with Stargate and learn how to dance properly, and I\u2019d kill it,\u201d Charli told <i><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/3616754\/charli-xcx-sucker\/\">TIME<\/a><\/i> in 2015 while promoting <i>Sucker<\/i>, her sophmore record that \u2013 however reluctantly \u2013 adhered to a safe vision of what her version of palatable pop could be, just left-of-center enough to make a statement about her artistry without ruffling too many feathers internally. \u201cIt would be fucking easy for me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            But she couldn\u2019t restructure pop while simultaneously serving as a piece on its <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> board. Part of what Charli was able to do is not something that many pop artists, particularly women, are afforded the opportunity to even attempt, which is take the time to explore and develop a meaningful understanding of what her creative landscape looks like. There\u2019s a rarity to the act of spending years wandering down these weird sonic paths while still having a presence in the pop arena without fully committing to residing there. And her formula for keeping that door open for herself was more strategic than she\u2019s been given credit for. Even when she was huddled up in the studio creating club-ready hyperpop with PC Music founder A.G. Cook, her creative director and closest collaborator, she never really went away. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            There was a tongue-in-cheek-ness to the way the singer littered subtle reminders that she knows pop inside and out throughout the mid- to late-2010s. She didn\u2019t make that easy money album with Stargate, but they did serve as producers on the 2015 Selena Gomez single she wrote. \u201cSame Old Love\u201d peaked at No.5 on the Billboard Hot 100 with Charli\u2019s unmistakable musical identity all over it \u2013 down to the backing vocals tucked into the chorus. It was an understated call-back to when she passed \u201cI Love It\u201d off to Icona Pop three years prior. Then, there was \u201cBoys,\u201d released in 2017 as the second single to a leaked-then-scr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed third studio album with a female-gaze frenzy of a music video, boasting dozens of male celebrity cameos from Joe Jonas and Amin\u00e9 to Kaytranada and Jack Antonoff. The following year, Charli hit the road with Taylor Swift as an opener on the Reputation stadium tour. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-230365\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charli XCX - Beg For You feat. Rina Sawayama [Official Video]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hw_Gtwdnp1Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-230364\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Three years had passed between <i>Sucker<\/i> and the two 2017 mixtapes that would redefine the singer\u2019s role as a genre-bending, avant-garde musician: the slick, underrated <i>Number 1 Angel<\/i> and the acclaimed, dazzling <i>Pop 2<\/i>. Over the following three years, Charli and Cook made an album in under 24 hours that she doesn\u2019t plan to ever release, she reconciled the identities of the artist and the person on <i>Charli<\/i>, and made <i>how i\u2019m feeling now over<\/i> six-weeks in lockdown, documenting the whole process on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>. The collaboration-heavy releases were innovatively boundless, unafraid of failing because the creator at their helm was (at least externally) so sure of herself, especially without commercial success driving her art. For Charli, the question of whether she would ever venture back into the orbit of mainstream pop as a leading artist was a matter of how and when she would do so, rather than if she was considering it at all. Not like this, or not right now, versus not at all. <\/p>\n<p>            On <i>CRASH<\/i>, her fifth studio album and final release under the Atlantic Records contract she signed as an anti-pop teenager, Charli XCX isn\u2019t just quietly squeezing through that door she left cracked for the better part of her career \u2013 she\u2019s driving a car straight through the walls. After nearly a decade of translating her nontraditional sonic approach into something that resembled pop in some way, shape, or form, the singer is crafting a love letter to the genre and fully committing to its demands. If she wasn\u2019t so good at it, it\u2019d qualify as selling out. But on <i>CRASH<\/i>, Charli sounds right at home cashing in on the resources she\u2019s had at her disposal this whole time to create a genuinely superb pop album. <\/p>\n<p>            <i>CRASH<\/i> trades in the leverage of her experimental records and mixtapes, playing around in her own lingering influence. The post-party emotional catharsis of <i>Number 1 Angel<\/i> seeps into \u201cEvery Rule\u201d and the industrial ballad \u201cMove Me,\u201d which was developed in a writing camp and sparked suggestions to pass the track on to Halsey, Charli told Apple Music. Just two slots down on the tracklist, the singer revives the electric synth-pop core of her debut <i>True Romance<\/i> with pop maestro Rami Yacoub on \u201cLightning\u201d \u2013 it\u2019s a glimpse into what Main Pop Girl Charli may have sounded like in 2015 had she not gone rogue, but she needed that intermission to craft something this seamless and sharp. For the first time, she\u2019s easing up on the gas just enough for pop to catch up to her..<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Even when she leans into pop\u2019s affinity for nostalgia, she propels in the opposite direction of her peers, passing up the eighties to mine three generations of pulsing dance music. On \u201cBeg For You\u201d with Rina Sawayama, one of only two collaborations on CRASH, Charli flips September\u2019s 2006 hit \u201cCry For You,\u201d then jumps ahead to the inescapable David Guetta-esque earworms of the early 2010s on \u201cUsed To Know Me\u201d before shifting to the new jack swing of the late nineties on \u201cCrash.\u201d But the album\u2019s most Charli-eque tracks \u2013 like the fiery \u201cBaby,\u201d which roped the singer into committing to full-blown pop choreo, but not in the vein of a TikTok trend, or the instantly quotable \u201cYuck!\u201d \u2013 are a reminder of who\u2019s behind the wheel. Both would sound flat and corny coming from anyone else, if only for the conviction needed to deliver a line like \u201cYuck, quit acting like a puppy \/ Fuck, going all lovey-dovey on me\u201d and wholeheartedly commit to it. <\/p>\n<p>            The most interesting commentary that <i>CRASH<\/i> provides is a rumination on how Charli herself defines and understands the function of pop music, from how it should look and sound to the way it should be shared and experienced. It\u2019s her shortest record yet, clocking in at just under 34 minutes across 12 songs, none of which pass the 4-minute mark \u2013 the majority of the songs on the album barely reach 3-minutes.  By now, She\u2019s more closely aligned with the ultra-brief recordings of a newcomer like PinkPantheress than she is a chart-darling like Dua Lipa, but Charli finds a middle ground between the two in the pure pop star performance of \u201cGood Ones\u201d and the gleaming electropop of \u201cConstant Repeat.\u201d The short and sweet, streaming-accessible doses of explosive pop know exactly where to shift production to the forefront and where to ease up just in time to hook listeners in for the next hit. <\/p>\n<p>            Charli\u2019s mastery of the pop formula is skillfully wielded to keep pace with how the modern music landscape has shifted over the past decade while she was blazing ahead. It may be a slow burn, but in order to have a clear view of how this era of her artistry will be embraced by that same terrain she once abandoned, she has to continue playing the part. She\u2019s done the grand <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i> performances, shared the conceptually-connected visuals, and tapped into her dedicated fanbase of Angels. Throughout <i>CRASH<\/i>, Charli XCX never stumbles, because she commited to not taking the easy route when it was first offered to her. Now, she\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed this road countless times, in different vehicles and at different speeds. Now, she could do it with her eyes closed. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Larisha Paul<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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