Inferno Euphoria

this is actually such a fascinating argument you can make here
 
on a certain level, von dutch and brat is just the usual result of charli doing something inauthentic and commercial for the previous project - vroom vroom and xcxworld happened as responses to sucker,  the overcommerical and overproduced crash was a response to the super diy how i'm feeling now, and sonically whenever charli feels too far from home, its back to the clubs. 
 
while uk pop music has been moving in a 90s/2000s dance/garage direction for the last few years (which she did acknowledge on crash with beg for you and selfish girl), technically even though they didnt deliver on it, both dua lipa and doja cat were talking about their next records being 90s rave inspired in like 2021. you can actually kinda hear the beginning stages of brat on 'what you think about me' on crash too, including what i think is a (sub)conscious interpolation of 'love me or hate me' by lady sovereign, which is kind of exactly the era that brat lives in.  
 
when it comes to von dutch, it is technically par for the course "commercial" in a world where perfect (exceeder) is randomly back in the charts after 20 years - but von dutch 100% predates saltburn, and no one could have predicted perfect (exceeder) and murder on the dance floor to make such huge comebacks on the heels of that film - it kinda seems like in this case, instead of charli being ahead of her time or "chasing trends", the zeitgeist actually set itself up for the release of von dutch and she kinda got lucky that that particular synth sound became popular again with perfect exceeder at the exact right time
 
cool to think about
 
 

i love & respect your strange takes always, but please - how is this her most commercial lead when Good Ones exists?

Addison saying "Got a lot of things to say about my debut" like yes i do where is it! 

i dont get the “sellout” songs claim like literally none of this album - from what we’ve heard - sounds commercial at all. even von dutch; its just so abrasive and hypnotic, with some appeal to be a moderate success but even then i think it will not quite be a mega hit rather than a… well… a cult classic (but it still pops!)

the song i made about Rina after she pissed me the fuck off on a sunday 
 
(unironically could be a Lana album title as well )

I like how she called it "The von dutch remix with addison rae and a.g. cook" because it really is the von dutch remix with addison rae and a.g. cook 

The VD remix is basically a new song with an entirely different vocal take and I’m here for it.

"its all a stunt shes really not actually mad! thats why shes been responding all day and night and screenshotting people that agree with her for her instagram stories"
 
yall come on now.... 
 

My issue with the deluxe cover is the missing crack on the windshield

I’d love a song made with Peaches

I am excited to see what she has planned. She seems to be giving the best of both worlds with this release plan.
A few new things for people who are mixtape fans and moving forward as well. I personally dont think she needs to keep making music like Starfucker sound unless she wants to. She kind of did it in a perfect way that nothing else in that lane is left unsaid. Fans can always keep the leaks and be happy with the b-sides she releases, if she does. (Please Heartbeat Away, Cathy...)
 
The only thing I'm still holding out hope for is she mentioned on a live possibly reworking Dangerous. I really, really hope that gets released one day.
 
I would hate to think after S4 she stops making music. I hope if anything its just her contract with her label is up and/or she might 'rebrand' or something.
She is just so in tune with pop culture she does things in a way that is missing with a lot of the other girls in the music industry right now. 
She seems like shes really in a depressed state and devaluing herself, her talent, and her worth lately. Snap out of it Cathy!!!!!

Interesting tidbits from her tumblr asks...
 
Mixtape anniversary / vinyl repress this year, new album is scheduled for next year. She mentioned adding additional songs to the vinyl. She said "one of" hello kitty, i’m high, platform shoes will be on it. "Might do" new songs as well. New album is not "Mixtape 2.0":  
Troubled Paradise likely not being repressed. She says she wants to reshoot the album cover before ever repressing it but its too expensive at the moment. Attention leak from Starfucker sessions is being reworked for S4. Saying it will be more "sad" in sound. "Wants to release 2 or 3 unreleased Starfucker scrapped songs" including Love To Make and Tommy, "maybe before Mixtape rerelease "later this year".

she probably forgot it’s her own song and thinks it’s Slayyyters hahaha 

Well it took EIGHT MONTHS but I finally, finally, got my Slayyyter order!!!!!!!!!! Decided to display it like this with the Graffiti Records picture disc instead of the clear idk I feel like it kinda eats on my wall.
 

I need another album or two from her with this current sound. If this is a one album choice i’ll be upset.

here you go 
 

Duality would have been such a better title imo and I really don't like the cover so I'm kinda disappointed ngl

she just gave birth  congratulations mother uchis!!

Oh I'm def waiting to see if there will be alt covers cause this one aint it

I certainly think there is a better way to approach "being right" then... whatever the hell shes doing on twitter.
 
If you are going to make a purposefully low effort album cover to display how much you dont give a fuck I think the first step would be.... to not give a fuck.
 
This is the girl that told journalists to piss off about fans wanting her to sign enemas and their grandma's ashes and suddenly she's the preacher of "womens agency" or whatever because some twinks didn't like her ms paint album cover that she spent way too much money paying a creative agency to make. 
 
I just wish she practiced what she preached. If she wants to serve "low effort I dont give a fuck what people think and say" then dear fucking god PLEASE do that and stop being insufferable trying to gather virtue signaling think-piece likes on twitter and just drop your music and let it speak for itself.

No Charli album cycle is complete without one. She just cant help herself. 

Oh look.
 
We're at the: Charli purposefully does something that antagonizes half of her fanbase then cant handle the negative side of the reactions then lashes out like a toddler on twitter
 
Part of the album cycle.

The album description doesn’t match the 2 singles…..but ok. Hopefully it delivers.