Glitter Boy

...in the fast lane got the roof down kiss me hard in the rain? 

Honestly though Charli's career timeline has always fascinated me so much, especially 2015-2017...
 
Summer 2015 was a real turning point in her career, I remember her performing Mow That Lawn live for the first time that summer at a festival and she introduced as her brand new song and there was a lot of speculation that she was planning to drop a full punk project that year. But we also know it was mid-late 2015 when she first started working with SOPHIE and Girls Night Out was written that year and that would've been the beginning of super pop / PC Charli... Then we got the Vroom Vroom era which was kinda crazy as the follow up project to Sucker?! 
 
Then we had the stop start 2016 / 2017 album campaign which caused her to rebel and give us Number 1 Angel, which again was different for her. And then to end the year with Pop 2! Like damn, I think since Pop 2 she's kinda stayed in one place in terms of her sound... But those few years were really a rollercoaster ride.

all the things that never were

@leakers u know what to do
np 

Yup they said it but tbh it fits the concept

This is true. Afaik the album leaked in August 2017. I guess that's why they said it was cancelled because of the leaks.

I'm pretty sure it leaked in August 2017... I think we had it before we had Pop 2, maybe I'm tripping? haha

R.I.P. to XCX or XCX World, the most iconic and biggest pop era that never was. Aborted but never, never forgotten.
 
♥︎
 
 

This truly makes sense, thanks for the insight. 
 
Oh my, this is truly heart breaking, either way I'm happy with Charli's growth after that chaos, her music just constantly gets better. 
 
Thanks for everything you aport to this thread and the fanbase @Eclipse

I'm literally overwhelmed by all the leaks and the info about XCX that I'm just watching my folders, scrolling over the files trying to find a way to make them make sense in a order, trying to separate them in bunches of 10-15 tracks and checking my tracklist drafts over and over...  

NC is definitely my favorite album of hers and my favorite album of all time as well. Her voice, the lyrics, harmonies, beats & variety yet cohesiveness of the project made it very special. She described the genre of her new upcoming album as the "Skylar Grey genre" so I'm praying it's at least somewhat similar to NC stylistically. We've been waiting for her new album for almost 5 years now so I'm very eager to hear what she's coming out with next!

I'm literally overwhelmed by all the leaks and the info about XCX that I'm just watching my folders, scrolling over the files trying to find a way to make them make sense in a order, trying to separate them in bunches of 10-15 tracks and checking my tracklist drafts over and over...  

I'm literally overwhelmed by all the leaks and the info about XCX that I'm just watching my folders, scrolling over the files trying to find a way to make them make sense in a order, trying to separate them in bunches of 10-15 tracks and checking my tracklist drafts over and over...  

AAAAAAH THIS WOULD'VE BEEN PERFECT! I still wonder why would they scrap the project. Compared with those plans, the following eras (not the albums themselves, only the rollout and overall campaigns) are dull.

omg ty for this xcxclusive info

I'm literally overwhelmed by all the leaks and the info about XCX that I'm just watching my folders, scrolling over the files trying to find a way to make them make sense in a order, trying to separate them in bunches of 10-15 tracks and checking my tracklist drafts over and over...  

I will tell you more in the future. There were stuff for Vroom Vroom video too. A whole video-game like concept where Charli and Paris Hilton would plug into a reality and earn game points etc. Car wash scenes. A ton of shit. Hope you've enjoyed some tea best teas.

I think it was cos After The Afterparty kinda bombed? Sucker was her biggest era commercially (and still is) but in the UK, which I imagine at that time was her main market, After The Afterparty just didn't do too well on charts and radio, I think it peaked in the 30s... And considering Boom Clap and Doing It had both been top 10 singles, they probably went back to the drawing board to try and push another single?
 
I could see Charli wanting Bounce to be the second single, she'd just dropped Vroom Vroom that year and was clearly experimenting more in the studio. Then we got the infamous Bounce performance on Jimmy Kimmel, which kinda killed the project overseas...
 
I imagine this was when the project and campaign kinda stalled and she was like publicly at war with her label and began with the mixtape ideas and wanting to drop some free music for fans.
 
And then we know the label started shopping for songs, Boys, Rare, Issues and many many more that Charli didn't even write... And considering she's a songwriter I imagine that's when the relationship with her label started to deteriorate. Maybe she was hurt or insulted that they didn't trust her songs? I'm just speculating?
 
Anyways, then we got Boys, yeah the video went viral but like charts wise it didn't live up to the highs of Sucker, and I think they were still gonna drop the album in September 2017? At least that's what Charli began saying in interviews when promoting Boys. But the whole thing leaked in August...

AAAAAAH THIS WOULD'VE BEEN PERFECT! I still wonder why would they scrap the project. Compared with those plans, the following eras (not the albums themselves, only the rollout and overall campaigns) are dull.

Here's the more final-looking edit by @kallumlavigne 

The way XCX died so Charli the album could live 

AAAAAAH THIS WOULD'VE BEEN PERFECT! I still wonder why would they scrap the project. Compared with those plans, the following eras (not the albums themselves, only the rollout and overall campaigns) are dull.

AAAAAAH THIS WOULD'VE BEEN PERFECT! I still wonder why would they scrap the project. Compared with those plans, the following eras (not the albums themselves, only the rollout and overall campaigns) are dull.

AAAAAAH THIS WOULD'VE BEEN PERFECT! I still wonder why would they scrap the project. Compared with those plans, the following eras (not the albums themselves, only the rollout and overall campaigns) are dull.

Rihanna, I think?