AtomicMess

Felt like streaming this old bop today 
Fun fact: Touch And Go was co-written by Bonnie McKee and there's a version of it that was pitched to Britney Spears / considered for Femme Fatale… It didn't make it to the album though  
 
WILL WE EVER MEET AGAIN? I DON'T KNOW…

The photo

 
the moodboard

the blonde hair looks so good on her wtf 
 

her confidence this era is so beautiful… i feel like in comparison to how i look back at the Charli era or even Crash tbh there wasn’t this self confidence and brattiness. Photos of the curly black mane compared to photos of the bob where she looks timid and not quite tapped into her icon status… Idk… I just love to see how she’s come into herself and recognised her power and legacy and future.  Go charli  
 
I feel like this is giving Hair Theory but idk THERES JUST SOMETHING ABOUT HER ATTITUDE THIS ERA it’s made me reflect on past footage of her and made me realise the journey she’s been through

but what does "walk like a bitch" mean
How do you walk like a bitch

Hearing Vroom Vroom in an actual live setting was bonkers. I didn’t expect how crazy that song would sound through a huge sound system.
 
Like, you haven’t LIVEDDDD…… until you’ve seen Vroom Vroom live, in the flesh   

a swiftie AND a True Romance hater?
 
pick a vice 

Not this True Romance slander- get out of here 

It really isn’t but someone always has to be quirky and different ig 

She looks hot I don't get it 

picking one look (which isn't even particularly bad lol) out of dozen amazing ones just to prove ur point isn't doing it babes! charles looked amazing this whole tour according to me and many fashion websites! (pics straight from vogue's article)
 

this has been her best looks ever for a tour… you just don’t get it me thinks :/

my gay 7yo ass trying on my moms wedding dress that has been eaten by the attic rats 

when charli performs spring breakers at the grammys 

Well she did write a song about committing a terrorist attack at the Grammys 

HOSTING AND PERFORMING ON SNL????? 

she will 100% skip FROOT and if she does a reissue it will be horrendous and only maybe contain true colours of all songs. She RESENTS releasing old demos for whatever reason

That's also probably a big part of it. I forget she's that old. In the TFJ-EH-Froot run I always think of her as being like, 19 to 24, when in reality she was like 25 to 30.

I think that might be a part of some of the fanbase's 'disconnect'. I feel like there was a HUGE leap in perceived maturity - between Froot and L+F it felt like she somehow lurched forward a decade in her appearance and appearances, mannerisms, attitude, etc. I always imagine EH, specifically, being such a 18-21 year old's album. The themes and the touches of angst around it are just so..... "youthful" to me. And then Froot comes along and we glow up a bit, but then....it feels like there was a missing "step" between that and L+F, and that "missing step" in maturity in all forms I think is where things rifted.
 
All rambles but I hope someone gets what I'm trying to put down.

i know you are not talking about Dayzeaze
 

Loooove the music video. No like I'm so glad she decided to make another pop album. I really thought she was gonna stray away from it after Chromatica and was gonna follow it up with a rock album or w/e (Michael Polanksy we like you!). Disease has already become one of my most played songs of the year (I just checked and it's my most played non-BRAT song skk) , I can't stop listening to it. She put crack in this song.

just got feed the beast CD for £2 

not to beat a dead horse or anything but does anyone have an updated tracker? i haven't heard any of the new leaks from this year oop

I thought exactly the same.
I think with l+f we were expecting 'why' she was missing so long, some angst and explanation in her music (which is in some outtakes like demons + angels) but she came around with 'enjoy your life! :)' which was disingenuous, and we all knew it, including her. adiaml feels more honest but her writing still isn't up to par, though that's more evident on the political tracks rather than personal ones imo.
I'm not sure she can ever get to MATD levels again but I'd rather be pleasantly surprised rather than let down, she writes best when she's writing from specific* personal experiences or has a theme (adiaml title track springs to mind, and obviously electra heart). (*she admitted she didn't do this for l+f, she wrote 'generally' and why I think her cover of 'only want you' from the era feels like it could have been on the album)
I agree with you, I actually wrote a bit more in my original post but deleted it because it felt too long. but in short, my opinion is to get around the accusations that you're only coming out to 'sell' something is you either make the product good, and therefore it doesn't need selling, or you form a parasocial relationship to sell the product, marina isn't doing either and that's where she's been falling short.
there are successful artists that don't interact with their fanbases at all and just drop music and hide away again, but I think if you didn't start that way it's quite difficult to make the transition, you almost have to make the music twice as good to make up for the lack of interaction, which again, she hasn't been doing and I can't see her doing. (as much as I would like her to bring out a 10/10 album and would be happy to be proven wrong.)

"and the Diamonds" IIRC was supposed to represent her fans too, right?
 
So we've got that being punted, then I guess "I can't love my fans b/c I don't know them" - which we've seen from other artists, and saying that is kicking a proverbial hornets nest with how parasocial fans are nowadays like logically I get it but if you say that people lose their shit.

Then a little book tour divaism?

Why does it give me a vibe like she's just on autopilot about it all? Like she's just making music/art for a paycheck and not so much a passion? 

That's also probably a big part of it. I forget she's that old. In the TFJ-EH-Froot run I always think of her as being like, 19 to 24, when in reality she was like 25 to 30.

I think that might be a part of some of the fanbase's 'disconnect'. I feel like there was a HUGE leap in perceived maturity - between Froot and L+F it felt like she somehow lurched forward a decade in her appearance and appearances, mannerisms, attitude, etc. I always imagine EH, specifically, being such a 18-21 year old's album. The themes and the touches of angst around it are just so..... "youthful" to me. And then Froot comes along and we glow up a bit, but then....it feels like there was a missing "step" between that and L+F, and that "missing step" in maturity in all forms I think is where things rifted.
 
All rambles but I hope someone gets what I'm trying to put down.