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I didn't pay attention to it during crash and wasn't here before that, but when can we start expecting a tour anouncement and the tour dates? I know it won't be tomorrow but I'd just like to know when we get this information usually, because I'm not going to Spain just for Charli...

I could do with that terrible AI cover of Charli singing Daddy Knows. The one where she can't hold a note and her lungs are giving out. It was amazing!

Gil, I admire your optimism, but come on. Doesn't reality hurt you every time you see another hopeful prediction being proven to be nothing more than wishfull thinking? I'm not trying to be mean, I just worry about you.

I thought about that too, since she's teased it too much while saying it isn't on the album. I don't think so though, it would be a weird choice, Xcxoplex, Heavy, Bullets even No Body... They are all relatively deep songs where the production can shine. The production is good, but not good enough for an AG album I think. It's also very much about being a ravey brat, which isn't the theme of Britpop.

Was that tweet misogynous in some way, more than likely, but she can't defend herself, most people that dislike the cover just think it sucks. I don't mind the other 3, I like Dua's and Taylor's and I don't know about Ariana's but I guess it will fit the vibe of the record. Charli's though... It isn't her first time without her face front and center. I wasn't there at the time but did people react negatively to the vroom vroom artwork being just a car? Because I like that one, I think it works, I can't say the same about brat. The difference in between those 2 reactions isn't misogyny, it's people disliking ugly / low effort stuff. If she was just defending her contemporaries I'd be right there with her, but I feel like if her album wasn't brought up, she wouldn't have cared one bit.

Funny that, I don't get the love

I think you misread, I think only Bounce has SOPHIE involved... Silver Cross is amazing though, possibly the best song on that album

The way both the lyrics and production mimic It's Okay To Cry. Honestly makes me wish this was another Number 1 Angel, crying into the champagne rather than drinking it. I kind of want Cecile to do the backing vocals on this song as an extra added layer. Not that it needs it, it's already perfect.

Speaking about LA and Only 1 I Love, likely Charli, maybe HIFN. Dylan Brady has not produced a single song on Crash, or any of the leaks we've had regarding the era. While it is pretty tame by Dylan standards, I think it's too out there for Crash, they feel like Unlock It or Warm, poppy songs that would stand out too much on a pop album. Also if we really want to know we can look at the metadata of other songs and leaks produced by him since 2018. I'm not going to, it sounds very Charli to me. No track 11 on her own and then Caroline features on an amazing remix of the track. This shit is never gonna happen

Some of her shorter songs are really good, but I want her to attempt a track 10 again. She'll likely never hit that high again, but I'd like for her to try, that song is so heavenly and a shorter version would have reduced effect. The reason I'm upset is that she's said on multiple occasions that she prefers shorter songs and I'm afraid after an album full of them, she won't come back from there.

I just ran the numbers and I fucking hate how short the songs are going to be... If there were to be 1 4 minute song, the others would need to be 2 minutes and 40 seconds long on average, and I don't expect her to put a single 4 minute song on a record full of short 2.5 minute songs, but the math gets worse when you account for multiple songs of 3.5 minutes or longer. 3 minutes 20 might be the longest song on there and that hurts...

or maybe think about putting a little box or outline around all text. It doesn't really matter that I can't see the creation date but I think I deserve to see how many pages there are, which is incredibly hard with the grey on the busy background.

If you're at your maximum now, just imagine what the half year spanning edging session will do to you in the lead up to this album...

I find this funny, because I don't feel like she committed enough to that ugly hatecrime of a cover. If she wanted to commit to this dadaist abstraction of art, go all the way, why are you on the inside of the sleeve, why are you on the single cover? Make the brat "logo" slightly off center, add some splotches or crinkles to it to make it look like a forgotten flyer in a puddle. I also fail to see the distinction between this as art and trolling, because I don't see the meaning it is meant to represent. Or is anything art nowadays if it reaches a big enough audience and illicits a response?

I'm 100% convinced she came up with the idea of punching the camera guy to death after flying into a seething rage after being asked to play taxi one too many times. Also the song is fine, it just doesn't get me as hyped as her other hypesongs like Next Level Charli, pink diamond, anthems or I Love It. The end didn't build enough for me...

Look I don't mind the plain background with lowercase text, but come on, this could have been so much better. She could have used an interesting or even custom typeface and make sure it isn't pixilated. Add in some kind of texture like marble or whatever and I would have been content, not impressed, but fine. Just because I get it, doesn't mean I have to like it.

Girl if we know what the inside of the sleave looks like, we know the outside... This is copium but she could just be shitposting? Don't want to get my hopes up though

Like if it was an interesting typeface and an uneven background, like a rothko painting, the texture of the 360 brat profile pic, the concrete wall of her IG profile or whatever, it would be so much better. But no it is lowercase brat in fucking arial, vertically stretched it seems, it is more pixilated than a picture on a nokia phone and it's on a plain green background... On the other hand, for all the Von Dutch haters, be happy the lead isn't some generic pop song that doesn't belong on the album like 1999 and BIOYL...

Honestly from what I'm hearing, this would have been a great album opener, not a lead single. This is Next Level Charli or pink diamond, not Gone (which should have been the lead single) or claws. I like these songs that set the tone for the album, but that's why the first time you hear them is with the rest of the album...

Am I the only one that wants her to play XCXoplex on tour, I think it would fit with what we believe the sound of the album to be. Also I need to see her preform it, that girl didn't get enough love. I know it won't though since nobody mentioned it being played during the boiler room and I don't think she ever preformed before?

Time to read way too deep in to this. Spring Breakers has heavy references to Britney, but also herself, which her songs for other artists rarely do. It will have a Britney feature I'm in my delulu era, can you tell? Similarly she played faceshopping both as a nod to SOPHIE but also because she'll work with Cecile Believe.

Honestly if she did a remix album with loads of features as well as DJ remixes, I would be fine with a featureless album. But if it isn't, I'm going to be a little bit dissapointed. HIFN was all about missing her friends and going out (and her rocky relationship with Huck, but shhh) not doing any features on it's spiritual successor would be a missed chance. Like at least 3 songs please

Difficult to say whether it's real. The instrumental is EASYFUN's Blink, so it could just be the vocals of another unreleased song with worse production slapped on Blink or an actual recording/demo for Blink. I personally doubt it, the only songs we have of her with only EASYFUN production are Speed Drive, Von Dutch and maybe LA and a version of bullets (if AG wasn't on those versions yet), all from way after 2016-2017. She seems to enjoy working with EASYFUN more these days but in those days she used him mostly as a secondary producer, so I doubt the validity. Though I'd love to be proven wrong by a leak of the track...

That is evil, 4 minutes long as well to get out expectations up.

Hey at least it reached the 2 minute mark, unlike Speed Drive.