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what if she gives us three things since apparently the last 2 magic drops were improvised?

this tea sldfsldjf spill more where do you get this info from

no I'm pretty sure it was just for the promo post she had to do on each platform, she doesn't keep tagging charli w the wrong user

https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1005874666903408646 I saw this yesterday and I SCREAMED lmfaooo "why do people call me Charli Xbox?" Does anyone know when it began?

I wouldn't doubt it tbh he went into the future on meth

Of course you can, but it doesn't always sound good, or else everyone would be able to have flawless studio vocals. Bebe Rexha sounds annoying in almost all her songs except Take Me Home, and that's the one song she can't quite pull off live. It makes me wonder if Charli's vocals aren't amazing because it's Charli, but because of a good vocal engineer. https://twitter.com/fckyeahcharli/status/805217727233204224 like here when she says "can I get the vocal up" does that mean they're pitching it up? So the vocal has that signature bright tone without actually having to sing in that pitch?

So what you're saying is that you can set autotune to stay within a certain scale, and it'll only stick to those notes and correct your voice to the closest note within the scale? Sort of like a "painting by numbers" approach?

what complex article? what did she say? It's just so weird to me that her current direction is all about being "the future of pop" just because the instrumentals are strange and the vocals sound inhuman. She strayed so far from traditional pop, which she had just reached the peak of. About the xcx3 songs/outtakes being "juvenile,' I remember her saying something about playing with the idea of being "vapid" “I used to really care about my validity as a writer or as someone who’s going to be received well,” Charli says. “And now I don’t. The more I’ve grown up and the more I’ve become secure with myself, I’ve become comfortable with being questioned. I don’t mind if people think I’m a fake. I kind of like that more. It’s like, ‘Oh she doesn’t do anything, she’s vapid, she’s a projection of other people’s ideas.’ I’m playing with that now more than ever. Sometimes it’s like, I would rather talk about my boobs and the outfits that I just bought.” the "fake" part is so PC music, and I feel like this excerpt really shows why she was so attracted to it. The "outfits that I just bought" bit in particular reminds me of Taxi (nightclub on a friday got my gucci on). It was unapologetically pop, and it was fun. It's such a contrast from now, where the soundscape is moody and sorta lifeless.

I'm can't tell if I don't trust you, or if I just don't want to believe this. So she didn't actually sing focus?? It was all done on a computer??? What if it was just sang straight, without vibrato? About the tone, I meant like, for example - Boys. The vocal is super smooth, and her tone is really consistent. It's almost as if it was sung nearly perfect before being retouched. Can they sort of "copy and paste" the best part of a note (best in terms of tonality) to the rest of the note to make up for any imperfections? Ugh now I wanna hear the raw vocals. Can you explain the "target pitch" function a bit more? I'm actually really confused by a lot of what you said. This all just seems like a lot of trickery

I feel like the labels don't see it as simple as "release it and get money". There's probably some sort of strategy involved. And yeah I understand that the outcry is from enjoying the music she's created, but if she hasn't seen the music as fitting for her official discography (I don't see why not, if she's willing to put so many strange collabs on pop 2), that's just it. It could very well be that she just doesn't vibe with those songs anymore and would hate to be stuck performing them the same way she does with fancy or i love it or boom clap (even tho BC is a bop but I'm sure it gets super annoying after performing it like 200 times). Btw what do you mean "physically"? Are you talking about putting songs up on streaming sites? Wouldn't physical = hard copies? Releasing songs on the regular seems to be the plan - doesn't seem like a huge problem at all. Maybe you hadn't come across the "single every month" posts yet. I'm scared, impressed, and weirded out all at once. I want to see the alternate cover omg I can't find it, was it official or fanmade?

Does anyone have the alternate Girls cover?

omg why do i feel like this inspired someone to make the vroom vroom/crank dat mashup... like they went to listen to the OG crank dat and realized it would fit with vroom vroom

yeah that all makes more sense than "the effect comes from being wayyy out of tune and that's why charli sucks live". Charli still has to be close to the note for autotune to register it, right? On her don't delete the kisses cover, there were still notes that were off pitch even though they were autotuned. Is it possible to sort of "iron out" vocals and make the tone really smooth? The studio vocals on Focus sound really great and I want to believe that it was because she finessed them but I don't know much about vocal processing. How was the whistling at the end of lucky pulled off?

https://twitter.com/hitchhikerdog/status/1003715642451791873 this is literally us in this thread

sis i know you're a backseat stan but you really didn't have to throw a hissy fit. Do you have the snippets charli teased on her IG story earlier this year? can't relate I'd rather have Blame It On Ur Luv

"THIS ISN'T EVEN OUT YET!!" I usually can't stand crowd screamers but he made me smile when I first heard that

I'm not sure what phrases you're talking about so I can't say :/ maybe it's just out of your range/you're singing it in a lower octave and don't have the range for that?

different tastes... it's so unpleasant to my ears

not sure if this is aimed at our discussion on the autotune but anyways, check ur pm's

@@BloomForYou I'm not sure where you got the "she stopped training/doing vocal warmups" bit from, because I've literally never heard of her doing any vocal warmups (I faintly remember her doing a "da da da da" scale but idk I might be imagining things) but ANYWAYS I have an idea that might be relevant to you guys I was watching a vocals video on youtube a few weeks ago and there was a part that said the singer was lowering their larynx to make their voice more stable (aka actually be able to hold the note) because their voice was damaged. Lowering your larynx gives the voice a husky tone, sort of like a yawn but not as extreme. I've noticed that charli's been doing that a little more nowadays. Not sure if it's a stylistic choice but I thought that was worth mentioning.

wow ok you seem to know what you're talking about! I've mentioned that part of backseat (the "so I can FIGURE IT OUT/so I can TURN it up" part) as one of the ugliest moments of the mixtape, so it makes a lot of sense that it's the same problem. about the singing off tune part, is that actually true? I thought it was something about the retune speed that accounts for the "hard switch" between notes...

what makes it a fact? that was literally just a theory and you stated it as a fact. no shade

yes that's what led to that thought! no it's the vocal processing why are you trying to state facts

Ok I know I'm not just going crazy. There's a certain quality to Charli's vocals in this pop 2 era (also present in the bitches remix) that's really unpleasant on the ears. It's like a harsh, thin, piercing, one dimensional sound. Does anyone else hear it this way?

I just remembered a tweet that said "that vroom vroom song by charli xcx is for people who think they can fight" and I've never felt so called out