champagnecigarettes

i would love a magdalena bay collab! also would love for her to collab with kesha now that she said the next project is influenced by 2007-2009 era kesha and it'd be cute considering the brit awards mishap involving her and kesha djfbndh. allie x would be cool too but in allie said that "if it was gonna happen it would've by now" so i don't think they'll ever be in the studio together which is sad. also this girl kitty (aka kitty pryde) would be amazing on a song with charli, their vibes are very very similar imo which makes sense as kitty was OBSESSED with super ultra/true romance when they dropped they also follow each other on twitter and kitty has asked to work with her like 7 times over the past 10 years

SHE SIGNED TO YOUNG MONEY? TRAPLI WAKE UP 

yup yup exactly 
BUDGET 

Krakenfiles seemingly ending dbree's career... yall have no loyalty!

This is random but it really amazes me how Losing My Cool (final) was found in How Can I's ProTools Pack LIKE one is not like the other here… and I’m looking at you, How Can I… Losing My Cool is such a beautiful 80s prom-esque song, if you get it you get it I don’t know what to tell you

she creating nonbinary people in taxi 

Is her subtweet about Fka twigs? Streets are saying they were both at the same event & don’t follow each other on Instagram 

no matter how many versions we get it's still a terribly bland song
 

with the way they treated Tinashe? Nah my sis wouldn’t sign to them

sources confirm charli xcx has signed to bunhead records! congratulations charli!

i agree with u sista but this is a popeyes can i please get your order we have costumers waiting

I think there's a diminishing returns thing with leaks. You find an artist you ABSOLUTELY love, and you're craving more more more, and then you find there's a little back catalog of unreleaseds or leaks or songs that were released but then quickly taken down, and it's like "OH MY GOD, MORE CONTENT TO LOVE!", but after awhile, the shine wears off.

Sometimes, the songs were legit mastered and ready, they're *done*, but held back for a deluxe that never materialized, or an entire album or EP that was canned last minute. They're great quality, lyrically and compositionally, if it's a ballad and you love ballads, then you love it. If it's a pop-bop and you want another pop-bop, you love it. Love/hate comes down to personal taste regardless, and everyone is happy to have another song or body of work.

Then you have the songs that were 'done' in the sense of album ready, but not selected and sent for mastering, and the rest of the body of work they were to go with went on and lived its life while they got forgotten. They're still great, but they just didn't get included for thematic reasons. The execs and managers did their own ranking and reviews and the track(s) ended up at the bottom of the pile for whatever reason. Still listenable. Still likable. Fans rejoice.
 
Then you've got the songs in the intermediate that were still in the workshop. Some are 'finished'. Some are absolutely not. Some are lyrically right, but the instrumental is shit, or vice versa. We've got 8 different versions with different intros and outros. Sometimes they're missing a bridge or a proper intro/outro. Sometimes it's just all instrumental stems with no vocals. Depending on the case, dedicated fans will 'fix' the track in a week. Sometimes it's absolute crap. Song quality is questionable - sometimes we get that 320k/WAV, sometimes we get that "recorded in a club in the bathroom on a 2002 Nokia' experience". Sometimes listenable, sometimes horrid. And with demos and WIPs - wide range of expectations v. reality. Could get shit that sounds almost album-perfect, could get shit that's literally tin-can microphone and a ukulele. Could have nonsensical lyrics to fill the space in a track, could just have gaps of silence in the tracks altogether.

After awhile of leak after leak after leak after leak after leak after leak bouncing between these different quality levels, it gets fatiguing. I used to be like 'OMG NEW SONG WHENN???!!!", but then when the full doesn't match the hype of the snip, I'm a little more reserved the next go round. Or when the snippet is passed around for months before the full drops, by then I'm already over it.

Add in that some people are really hunting for leaks or unreleaseds from a certain 'era' of an artist, or only looking for a specific sound or song, and suddenly the leaks and outtakes and resurfaced old material starts to become less impactful, less important, less celebrated. In the case of Charli, there's a dedicated block of folks who have basically bone-grafted Pop2/Self-Titled/HIFN to their skeletons and literally anything that isn't poppers bottom PC music is panned. There's a block of people who crave witchy-goth-tumblresque True Romance 24/7/365 and anything not from that angsty era is panned. XCXWorld sluts literally want one thing and it's Bounce are constantly chasing that "high" of when that whole thing materialized, so anything less doesn't smack the dopamine button like it used too.

Just my 2 cents (adjusted for inflation).
 
(Also sometimes the song really is just that fucking bad, which is WHY it wasn't released. Something something we all missing the forest for the trees on that one.)

THAT BEING SAID...
 
I am (baby) obsessing.
 
MOTDF and Crying Stars are good. 3.5/4 out of 5. Solid songs (to me). Going into playlists. Will be bopping. Worth the wait or w/e on MOTDF. I have her. We living.
 
WvW I like it a LOT, BUT sonic texture is off. Sounds demo. Maybe more in future? Maybe scrapped and this is what we get. Who knows. I remember hearing snippets in the past so getting the full now is nice.

Hotel - meh.

Tables - I need the fulllllllll. I love it.

I GOT DRESSED UP STEPPED IN THE CLUB IM KIND OF NEW TO ALL THIS STUFF DONT KISS AND TELL TRAPPED IN MY SHELL BUT MAYBE YOURE UNDER MY SPELL DANCING ON TABLE TOPS CHAMPAGNE BOTTLES GO POP RUNNING AWAY FROM COPS OH NO OH NO OH NO THAT DOESNT SOUND LIKE ME YES I CAN GUARANTEE CUZ IVE PROBABLY GONE TO BED BY THEN ANYWAY OH OH OH OHHH SHE LOOKS LIKE A LOT LIKE ME BUZZIN IN THE CLUB LIKE A CRAZY BEE IM LIKE OH OH OH OH OH OH WHO ME? GOOD GIRLS DONT DO THA TYPE OF STUFF LUV!! Xx

black roses
grins (missing two stems)
how can i
nuclear seasons (only 8 tracks)
so far away
what i like
this is all we have afaik

we want her with dev hynes

The pop icon that should be performing Super Bowl halftime shows.


 
This was such an aesthetic… one that was, and the gig itself, firmly cemented in XCX lore.  
 

You just making shit up

what even is this shape, its kinda giving shamrock if they had their arms at their sides

only semi related but do we remember when snl made that pride month song that was just a blatant ripoff of girls night out and also holiday by madonna

me everytime I look in the mirror
Charli XCX - Reflecting

i need an archive of all of those songs immediately 

She really went into the studio with Ariel and said: "I'm gonna be the coolest, hottest, freakiest and baddest bitch in the music industry from now on and the gays will love it" 

She was ahead at the time with True Romance, oh yes, hardcore smoking hot dark goth Tumblr girl poetry! End of an era.
 
This shit is super wildThis shit is super coolThis is kinda gangstaI think I'm into youhouhoohoohoohoohoohello this is the queen of englandhere with anotherD wordexclusivebaby

Marty I'm scared