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she hasn’t actually said she’s doing a ‘proper’ b-sides album, she just said: "Firstly, the fans don't know it yet--I guess once they read this interview, they will--I am releasing a lot of my demos that won't make it to the album & playing them at my shows & DJ sets. Just to show that there are a lot of tracks that don't make it-not because they're bad (in fact, some of them are really good), it's just that they don't fit with the record. I'm into the idea of this massive amount of material being out there, saturating the fan base with all of these things that could have possibly happened.” edit: longer quote, I think the interview was from a physical magazine cause I can’t find it online, just people talking about it.

grimes 🤝 marina repeatedly saying they don’t like the traditional album rollout and want to just release songs ‘whenever’ but never actually doing that. (I know they’ve both been through a lot in their personal lives and I hate when people ignore that and act entitled, but at the same time please stop teasing music when nothing is actually on the table😭)

i know i shouldn't be surprised anymore but how did we go from 'i have two songs ready and waiting to be approved by spotify' to radio silence

club classics everything is romantic 50,000 sympathy verse 2 B2B bridge rewind cut me off fantasy idea (she got a fantasy) protect x idea

I mean she was delusional enough to tease it in the speed drive music video in the most intrusive way possible… imo the song would have been better received had she not used the most generic mainstream production for it, she only sings 6 words in ‘yes no okay’ and it’s much more interesting to listen to than the snoozefest of in the city. but maybe we should let the in the city discourse be.

oh I hope she makes the full diary into a book like aurora did for her last album…

i hope she gets better soon but i'll never get over her going to (and hosting) all those pool parties in 2021 and getting covid several times (i did wonder if her chronic fatigue was linked to long covid tbh) also marina and lana could have fallen out privately at any point, but since unfollowing each other would cause 'drama' maybe marina waited then saw qftc as an 'excuse' to unfollow her idk

I'm glad she didn't go with 'desire' as the album title, 'I WANT - CHARLI XCX' would have been pretty iconic with the von dutch/360 theme of obsession though. (edit: forgot to mention that I think brat is the best out of all the 3)

I think she meant specifically when they release a version with a new song so you 'have' to buy each vinyl to get all the songs on vinyl (if you're into that) but it's still lowkey embarrassing.

at least it doesn’t interrupt the video, I hate that shit (speed drive I’m looking at you)

to me it feels like she has a lot to get off her chest that she can’t put into lyrics but either can’t or won’t write a traditional memoir so this is her way of finding a middle ground. however I do think this should have been marketed as prose, ditching the hard to read line breaks and including her own doodles but i guess poetry book is a bit of a buzzword at the moment. I hope she feels better getting this all of her chest. this ‘poem’ kinda hit a note with me, as I relate to some of what she’s talking about.

omg I was literally just wondering if we'd find out what happened. edit: the full poem is on instagram.

5am gmt seems like a weird time for the mv premiere? it's usually 5pm gmt. I'm not complaining of course as it's less time to wait, most of which I will be asleep for, I'm just wondering if it was a mistake or something. if so please don't fix it.

obviously there’s still time for her to go, but it’s a shame marina hasn’t gone to a met gala yet. I just feel like she’d actually be on brief as she isn’t scared to wear anything out of the norm (which is why a lot of people, mostly men, don’t follow the brief imo) she wore that rat jumper to fashion week and it was kinda ugly but also iconic.

i’m hoping for a remix album too + I hope she drops the album stems like she did with hifn.

I am like 90% sure she did an Instagram story where she was making a joke about always taking a photo from the left side of her face cause of something she was insecure about. I can’t remember what she said though.

apparently it uses her vocals and the ai vocals which would still mean she’d have to sing the vocals for the AI to process, unless anyma used his vocals instead.

i don’t think she is. i think this is just a natural progression of being literally everywhere for the last few years, to the point that she feels inescapable even offline (she’s on buses where I am). people just get tired and things that were popular then switch to ‘overrated’ and we all know how fun it is to say you hated something first on the internet! for a long time saying the tiniest thing about Taylor that could be misconstrued as negative rallied the swifties, so if the tide turns everything people have bottled up over the last few years is just going to come out.

my friend was really looking forward to the poetry book, but it turns out the colourblindness they have makes the pink and orange look practically the same colour so it’s just a mouth and the black text (I’ve suggested maybe they can recover the book but I’m not sure they’ll be bothered to do that.)

rupi kaur effect. I quite like the message in the poem she posted today but like you said the structure is just a bit difficult to read same with the others.

no music coming anytime soon, she said she's only been writing in the last six months so I think she must have scrapped whatever she was writing after the ADIAML tour https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/marina-announces-eat-the-world-poetry-book-interview-1234997572/

maybe they’ll somehow be linked? she's teased snippets so I don’t think we’ve misinterpreted at least a single coming soon. it would be interesting for her to sing her poetry, I’m thinking a bit like the MySpace songs, they don’t really have traditional structure (like hot cross bun)

do you guys think Charli will ever win a grammy? I don’t think they really ‘mean’ anything but it’s obviously something on her mind. brat isn’t going to be the type of album to win a grammy but if she did an album selling out to the commercial mainstream? she’d have to time it right cause if it was during taylor/olivia/billie’s album cycle she, like anyone else, wouldn’t win. (it’s kind of annoying they keep sweeping, they’re talented in their own way but let someone else have a chance) she might have a better chance with a song rather than an album but again idk.

spam ‘leak spring breakers (studio version)’ and argue about something dumb probably

I am SO glad she's calling this out and I hope it gains some traction. these artists (though I will say this is the label too) are just putting themselves into a catch 22 position as they'll have to keep releasing more and more variants to try and top their numbers. I wish billboard (or whoever) would stop it too, I'm not sure how they would counteract it, apparently a load of k-pop stans were buying singles on different accounts so they reduced the amount digital sales counted for and upped streaming, so maybe that only the standard edition would count or something?