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I wish she would've put her own version of I Love It on True Romance... I don't mind that she gave it to Icona Pop, but I wish we had a Charli only song and I feel like True Romance is lacking in the "idgaf I'm so done with you" break up song department. It's just got Cloud Aura which is still very hurt. I think having a really fun badass breakup song would've really added to the spectrum of emotion about romance on the album.

Gonna pretend to write for a newspaper.

I didn't know you could message her on facebook, so I asked her for an interview with the newspaper since I write for it

she's working with Starsmith and William Orbit right now according to Orbit's twitter.
 
my body...

YESS!!! If I had to pick just one it would be this one. It's so beautiful and dark and reminds me of the you're the one music video backdrop with the clouds which I love and also kind of makes me think of one of those swan boat love tunnels. And she's just so gorgeous and I love her hair and her signature goth look with the eyeliner and the pale lips! This is the picture I use for ALL of her unreleased songs.

Probably this still from the What I Like Video
 

 
or this
 
 

My pleasure She took some convincing with Lana but now she loves her, same with Marina...Don't see any reason for Sky to be different!
 
 
OMG no My friend is just hesitant about LA shows in general after her experience, I guess. I think it was Marina's biggest venue to date but I don't know if perhaps New York was bigger later in the tour...To be fair, it seemed like a normal concert to me, and I was right in the pit. A lot of young teenagers weren't ready for it, though, so they thought pushing was some kind of anomaly.
 
Sky's at the El Rey, which Lana performed in last summer and Charli is performing in this September. So that's about the same kind of exposure across the board. It's pretty small for an LA venue but we'll see. I'm seeing Charli just weeks before so I guess I'll learn about the atmosphere and details.

YES CHARLI YES! YOU WRITE THAT BIGGEST SURPRISE HIT OF 2013! RIHANNA WHO?! MAKE THAT $$$

She's great and meeting her was like my favorite concert experience because it was so intimate! Meeting and getting a picture with Marina was cool but there were a bunch of pushing fans. Meeting Sky was like meeting a person at a party and it was just really cool to meet an artist I admire so much.

She's great and meeting her was like my favorite concert experience because it was so intimate! Meeting and getting a picture with Marina was cool but there were a bunch of pushing fans. Meeting Sky was like meeting a person at a party and it was just really cool to meet an artist I admire so much.

She's great and meeting her was like my favorite concert experience because it was so intimate! Meeting and getting a picture with Marina was cool but there were a bunch of pushing fans. Meeting Sky was like meeting a person at a party and it was just really cool to meet an artist I admire so much.

LanA DELE Rey is that you? 

I know them because of the Pretty Little Liars theme song lol, I'll try listening to their other stuff though, I didn't know it was supposedly so good and emotional. I can't take "Secret" seriously as it's own song though because to me it's just the PLL song.

Hi everybody! I'm new in LanaBoards
i've been reading this topic for days and sometimes i wanted to comment but i didn't wanted to sign in cuz im not a truly lana fan, i like her and i love some of her songs (paris, lucky ones, etc), but im here for charli, im sorry i know this is a lana forum but i really love this topic cuz its the only charli forum lol
 
im sorry if my english is bad haha my born language is spanish and im not a english expert, sorry if you cant understand me completely:/.
 
well, hope being welcome here, you're cool:)
 
im gonna start with the daily topic haha, my true romance tracklist would be like this:
 
1. Nuclear Seasons Intro (It's like magical and sounds like space haha)
2. Stay Away (It fits with Nuclear Seasons Intro)
3. You're The One (so .. dark?)
4. Mess (NEED the studio version)
5. Spoons (Without that guy, please.)
6. Go To The Jungle (If the remix is good, the normal version must be better)
7. Watch The Rain (I know its old but I love it, it's lovely)
8. Midnight (Such an interesting title)
9. Heartbreak High (I imagine that it sounds like Just Desserts)
10. Interior (So bubblegum and so Charli)
11. Take My Hand
12. Black Roses 
13. Lock You Up (*crying*)
14. Feel My Pain
15. Grins
16. Moments In Love (Perfect outro, but longer please.)
 
Bonus Tracks
 
17. The Killing Moon
18. Smile
19. Candyfloss

It's like, how can you be the biggest Charli stan but also so consistently wrong?
 
Uh, should we all go more in depth and not let Madrigal outshine us?

What a terrible question to ask...the reason Charli is my favourite is because so many of her songs appeal to me, on so many different levels.  
 
I have to break it up into different subsections, because her career encapsulates so many different movements. 
 
PART ONE - "14" 
My favourite would probably have to be "Yet Again"...though I love "Supermodels and Holiday Stunners", "Watch the Rain", and "Alcoholic" a whole bunch too, "Yet Again" gets stuck in my head the most and I love its concise-ness. I really do like the whole album, to be absolutely honest - choosing just one is really hard.   But a least favourite? Either "I'll Teach You a Lesson" (because the opening sounds so promising, but the rest of the song is so shockingly mediocre) or "Live Life", probably...along with "Chas's Song". They're just not really strong tracks, but I still enjoy them from time to time. 
 
PART TWO - MYSPACE DEMOS
This is 100%, hands-down my favourite collection of Charli's work. That's why I'd rather hear songs like "Pop Princess" and "Falling in Love" from here more than anything since...there was something about her creativity and exploration as a budding artist that really flourished in these years, no matter what she says about it. "Princess Song" is my favourite lyrically, although some of the production elements on the version we have agitate me...I never get tired of her saying Box up the truth, push it to the side.  "Do It Well" and "Valentine" tie for overall faves from this time, but it's really hard to single out even two from the few we have...so much brilliance, so precious little left. Least favourites, of course, would simply have to be the Save the Rhino tracks, just because Miss Twiggi's presence adds an aura of immaturity that even young Charli tended to vie away from...since everyone else seems to ignore those two, however, I'd have to say "Too Cool" is less beautiful a track than most from this time, though I wouldn't discredit is as listenable. 
 
PART THREE - MIXTAPES 
(Ideally, there would be a separate subsection for all the songs she did with various producers between 2010 and 2012 that were overlooked for the album, but seeing as none of these have leaked, we don't really have that luxury.   )
I love both mixtapes dearly. I remember looping them CONSTANTLY after I started listening to her, and her material was so uncommon that we were obliged to over-listen to every song we had. My favourite from the first one would just have to be her adaption of "Dreams Money Can Buy". Most of you probably haven't heard of Jai Paul as an artist in his own right (not meant as a disparagement, simply as a truth...he is very eccentric/reclusive/niche ), but the primary sample comes from his awesome track "BTSTU", which was further sampled by Drake to become "Dreams Money Can Buy". The chorus of Charli's version just gets me every time. So much energy, so much forcefulness, so much pure vocal power! As far as least favourite from the first one, I'd have to go with "Champagne Coast". I like it, but the mumbling just gets annoying after the first few listens. :/ 
 
Now, on to the far more coherent, fairly longer second mix. Choosing is, as always hard...this was the first true release she had after I became a fan, so I had the will to listen through every song on here until I liked them all. However, the song that sticks with least is "Velvet Dreaming (LUV)". I've grown fonder of it over time, but I just think it's kind lackluster lyrically. The high-pitched whispering in it, though...so gorgeous. Naturally, I don't love "Cloud Aura" as much as I might, but this seems to be a fairly common tendency. My favourites here are hard, because every song has at least moment that's just phenomenal!   But "Dance 4 U" and "Moments in Love" are top of the list. Mention goes out to "Heatwave" for aging super quickly...not a bad track, but the sample and lyrics struck me as massively shallow after 20 or so listens.
 
PART FOUR - 'TRUE ROMANCE' 
Favourite? Without a doubt, "Take My Hand". Sure, "Stay Away" is an all-time shocker. Sure, the gliding vocals on "Nuclear Seasons"  and "You're the One" are wonderful. Yes, the lyrics on "What I Like" are so undeniably Tumblr-esque that all comparisons are futile. Of course the spoken bridge on "Feel My Pain" is the most wonderfully melodramatic thing I've ever heard, and "You (HA HA HA)" epitomizes the catchy vengeance tune! Yes, "How Can I" is a dirge, and the soft-spoken freestyle raps on "So Far Away" are contemptuous in a truly splendid way. Of course (and how did I not mention this earlier?) "Lock You Up" represents one of the best Pop melodies I've ever heard, and uses cliches in a truly admirable patchwork. But "Take My Hand", as I once said long ago, is freakin' euphoria in a song. So bubbly, a meteoric opal in an already sparkling crystal realm. Least? I knew it had to come to this. However, simply because I forgive "Black Roses" its repetitive nature for its melodic brilliance, "Grins" ends up at the bottom of my hierarchy. I think it's still one of my most played Charli songs, but I felt like it never deserved to be promoted from mixtape status when such songs like "Midnight" exist that we might never hear.   
 
PART FOUR - COLLABORATIONS
Charli does something that she seems prone to forget - she works with a lot of other vocalists, especially in songs which she has a hand in writing. She rarely mentions the majority of these collaborations, especially with the advent of her new career, but they present some of her best moments. My personal favourites are "Smile" (though I don't think it is beyond fault, especially structurally speaking, the spelling just gets me) and "Like a G6", partly because the latter is essentially the only thing left from the grand ole days when she worked with Uzo Emenike, and partly because her flow in the opening verse is just  ! Imagine if she still did stuff like that. Least favourite would probably be "Just Desserts"...I enjoy Charli's lyrics, but I find Marina's lyrics and general aesthetic do not work when applied to Charli's wild energy. "Heartbreak's hard, when you got a plastic heart..." and it goes downhill from there.   Honourable mention goes out to "Train In Vain", which for some reason I was obsessed with for about three months and then got so bored of I virtually forgot about it. 

Ok Illusions Of grew on me but it's still not that great in my opinion.
 
and @@National Anthem , we have the same taste in Charli's music <3

Well it's 1:00 AM here soooo...
 
6/28 - Favorite & Least Favorite song + reasons
 
 
Favorite song is really hard but I guess I'll say You're the One because it is everything I want a Charli XCX song to be sonically (forgive me if I'm using that word wrong...) and just the overall sound of it. A combination of pop and a dark edgy goth tinge. I'd say Stay Away and Lock You Up are also acceptable answers though.
 
Least favorite is easy if we can include the really bad unreleased ones... Beach Hut In Hawaii, I Wanna Be Darth Vader... etc
 
But if it was to be a song that she MEANT for us to hear (True Romance, Super Ultra, or Heartbreaks and Earthquakes), I'd say... Idk Moments in Love or Dance 4 U just because I never listen to them? I've had both of them stuck in my head before though..
 
Least favorite from True Romance is probably So Far Away. It's repetitive and it's the only song I was sick of before even hearing True Romance because it sounds exactly the same as the version she put on Heartbreaks and Earthquakes and I never thought it was amazing to begin with.

I used to be a really big fan of them but I never really got into mosquito for some reason... (I hate the album art btw if it matters at all. I think it looks weird and gross...) but I do really love Always, and I cried this morning watching the music video for Despair. It's really pretty. (I had a lot on my mind though, it wasn't just the video lol).
 
They've always been a tad bit hit or miss with me. I could never get into all their songs, but the ones I could get into I loved. I probably got really into about half of each of their first 3 albums, perhaps more of It's Blitz. Although my favorite song by them is still Maps <3
 
I think I'm going to try giving mosquito another listen. I wasn't paying too much attention the first time tbh, I just didn't care that much because if I recall correctly it came out right when True Romance came out and at that point I was obsessed with Charli XCX.

I didn't meet her at her Marina show I was sad because everyone made it look so easy the first couple tour dates, but at mine I wasn't aware of Charli ever coming out... When I was waiting to meet Marina I heard some people saw her somewhere but I wasn't going to give up my spot at the front of the barricades to look for Charli and maybe not even find her.
 
Hopefully I meet her in September in Boston though!!! I don't think it should be too hard, I'm sure she'll come out like 10 or 15 minutes after every show to meet the fans that stick around. That's what Sky did.
 
AND OMG GUYS CHARLI POSTED PICTURES ON HER INSTAGRAM OF A RECORDING STUDIO AND SAID "WEIRD SHIT HAPPENS WHEN YOU RECORD IN SWEDEN". 
 
I can't believe she's already recording, possiobly for her second album!!! Or maybe even a random mixtape or single!!!!       

But not Charli having her album out before Sky (and LONG before Sky at that) even when her album was pushed back for months as well, and Sky has had the hype/been on the scene way longer. 
 
She honestly should be on her 2nd or 3rd album, it's just so ridiculous... Now Charli is blowing up and Sky is being forgotten because she STILL hasn't released an album. It's just such a shame because she had so much hype and it feels like everyone else is doing laps around her now and it'll be hard for her to catch up... Charli and Grimes were supposed to be her peers but they are both getting their success already while she's still playing games with her debut release date...
 
(btw I don't mean specifically "her". I'm aware it's not her fault, I just mean in general it sucks what's going on with her album, whoever or whatever is responsible for it. This really isn't good for her)

right!? "you see, the thing about her, she's just a bit too young, I think, personally" 

SOMEONE PLZ ASK HER ABOUT....
1. "Mess", and why it was never released.
2. The studio version of "The Killing Moon" and the full HQ version of "Lonely Jaguar".
3. The existentence of "Midnight" and "Blood & Sweat".
4. The possibility of a near-future release, including such songs as "I'm Not Sorry" and "Heartbreak High".
5. Finally, and almost most importantly, WHERE THE FVCK IS THE UN-REMIXED VERSION OF "JUNGLE"?!?!?

Just a couple of drawings and illustrations of Lana (I do others also you can look on my deviantart http://chazdesigns.deviantart.com)

 

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If anyone reposts anything I WILL genuinely hunt you down, so please respect it please.

Yeah, the track by tracks are fun but also super odd to use to compare albums because you aren't actually comparing the albums, you are comparing however many pairs of individual songs.