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The album cover & the tracklisting leaked on iTunes, and you can pre order it, but the release is till SEPTEMBER, so wait to see what the label does :3
 
Release:
September 9, 2013

Label:
So Recordings

Singles:
Cinderella - July 21, 2013

Track listing:
Cinderella
We Danced All Night
Music to Make Boys Cry
Boy in Paris
Break My Fall
Lightning Strikes
Love Sounds Better in French
Mad at Me (Ft. One Night Only)
Dead Heat
Time Machine
Lovesick
Smoke
Good for You
 
 
 
*This thread will be edited with news about the track, like we did with Cheryl's Ghetto Baby*

I like being the devil's advocate, maybe the producers shouldn't have uploaded all the tracks to their website??

THE PERSON WHO LEAKED HH LITERALLY WENT ON A TYRADE ABOUT HOW NEW SONGS SHOULNT BE LEAKED I MEAN SHIT JUST BECAUSE IT'S NOT LANA DOESN'T MEAN THE RULES DONT APPLY I SWEAR IM GONNA PUNCH SOMETHING

"Give us Mess and Jungle"
 
"Stop sharing Heartbreak High we don't condone that"

BUT IT'S UNLEAKED AND COULD BE USED FOR A FUTURE PROJECT!!!1!11

A bitch admitted to doing "a session or two" for Britney's album on Twitter

They are registered by someone in the label I believe.
 
It means they are eligible to be commercially used

The venue I'm going to is all ages hopefully this is more a good thing than bad

I think it'd be a flop like NataliaBoards. Maybe later on..

What a terrible question to ask...the reason Charli is my favourite is because so many of her songs appeal to me, on so many different levels.  
 
I have to break it up into different subsections, because her career encapsulates so many different movements. 
 
PART ONE - "14" 
My favourite would probably have to be "Yet Again"...though I love "Supermodels and Holiday Stunners", "Watch the Rain", and "Alcoholic" a whole bunch too, "Yet Again" gets stuck in my head the most and I love its concise-ness. I really do like the whole album, to be absolutely honest - choosing just one is really hard.   But a least favourite? Either "I'll Teach You a Lesson" (because the opening sounds so promising, but the rest of the song is so shockingly mediocre) or "Live Life", probably...along with "Chas's Song". They're just not really strong tracks, but I still enjoy them from time to time. 
 
PART TWO - MYSPACE DEMOS
This is 100%, hands-down my favourite collection of Charli's work. That's why I'd rather hear songs like "Pop Princess" and "Falling in Love" from here more than anything since...there was something about her creativity and exploration as a budding artist that really flourished in these years, no matter what she says about it. "Princess Song" is my favourite lyrically, although some of the production elements on the version we have agitate me...I never get tired of her saying Box up the truth, push it to the side.  "Do It Well" and "Valentine" tie for overall faves from this time, but it's really hard to single out even two from the few we have...so much brilliance, so precious little left. Least favourites, of course, would simply have to be the Save the Rhino tracks, just because Miss Twiggi's presence adds an aura of immaturity that even young Charli tended to vie away from...since everyone else seems to ignore those two, however, I'd have to say "Too Cool" is less beautiful a track than most from this time, though I wouldn't discredit is as listenable. 
 
PART THREE - MIXTAPES 
(Ideally, there would be a separate subsection for all the songs she did with various producers between 2010 and 2012 that were overlooked for the album, but seeing as none of these have leaked, we don't really have that luxury.   )
I love both mixtapes dearly. I remember looping them CONSTANTLY after I started listening to her, and her material was so uncommon that we were obliged to over-listen to every song we had. My favourite from the first one would just have to be her adaption of "Dreams Money Can Buy". Most of you probably haven't heard of Jai Paul as an artist in his own right (not meant as a disparagement, simply as a truth...he is very eccentric/reclusive/niche ), but the primary sample comes from his awesome track "BTSTU", which was further sampled by Drake to become "Dreams Money Can Buy". The chorus of Charli's version just gets me every time. So much energy, so much forcefulness, so much pure vocal power! As far as least favourite from the first one, I'd have to go with "Champagne Coast". I like it, but the mumbling just gets annoying after the first few listens. :/ 
 
Now, on to the far more coherent, fairly longer second mix. Choosing is, as always hard...this was the first true release she had after I became a fan, so I had the will to listen through every song on here until I liked them all. However, the song that sticks with least is "Velvet Dreaming (LUV)". I've grown fonder of it over time, but I just think it's kind lackluster lyrically. The high-pitched whispering in it, though...so gorgeous. Naturally, I don't love "Cloud Aura" as much as I might, but this seems to be a fairly common tendency. My favourites here are hard, because every song has at least moment that's just phenomenal!   But "Dance 4 U" and "Moments in Love" are top of the list. Mention goes out to "Heatwave" for aging super quickly...not a bad track, but the sample and lyrics struck me as massively shallow after 20 or so listens.
 
PART FOUR - 'TRUE ROMANCE' 
Favourite? Without a doubt, "Take My Hand". Sure, "Stay Away" is an all-time shocker. Sure, the gliding vocals on "Nuclear Seasons"  and "You're the One" are wonderful. Yes, the lyrics on "What I Like" are so undeniably Tumblr-esque that all comparisons are futile. Of course the spoken bridge on "Feel My Pain" is the most wonderfully melodramatic thing I've ever heard, and "You (HA HA HA)" epitomizes the catchy vengeance tune! Yes, "How Can I" is a dirge, and the soft-spoken freestyle raps on "So Far Away" are contemptuous in a truly splendid way. Of course (and how did I not mention this earlier?) "Lock You Up" represents one of the best Pop melodies I've ever heard, and uses cliches in a truly admirable patchwork. But "Take My Hand", as I once said long ago, is freakin' euphoria in a song. So bubbly, a meteoric opal in an already sparkling crystal realm. Least? I knew it had to come to this. However, simply because I forgive "Black Roses" its repetitive nature for its melodic brilliance, "Grins" ends up at the bottom of my hierarchy. I think it's still one of my most played Charli songs, but I felt like it never deserved to be promoted from mixtape status when such songs like "Midnight" exist that we might never hear.   
 
PART FOUR - COLLABORATIONS
Charli does something that she seems prone to forget - she works with a lot of other vocalists, especially in songs which she has a hand in writing. She rarely mentions the majority of these collaborations, especially with the advent of her new career, but they present some of her best moments. My personal favourites are "Smile" (though I don't think it is beyond fault, especially structurally speaking, the spelling just gets me) and "Like a G6", partly because the latter is essentially the only thing left from the grand ole days when she worked with Uzo Emenike, and partly because her flow in the opening verse is just  ! Imagine if she still did stuff like that. Least favourite would probably be "Just Desserts"...I enjoy Charli's lyrics, but I find Marina's lyrics and general aesthetic do not work when applied to Charli's wild energy. "Heartbreak's hard, when you got a plastic heart..." and it goes downhill from there.   Honourable mention goes out to "Train In Vain", which for some reason I was obsessed with for about three months and then got so bored of I virtually forgot about it. 

I like both choices. "Grins" with Sky would have been great and I need some kind of witchy anthem with Azealia Banks. Since she sang with Sky, previously planned a collab with Azealia, and actually released a song with someone like Marina, these tumblr wet-dream pairings seem actually plausible.
 
Also either her or Sky (or both ) needs to get with Vampire Weekend on an Ariel Rechtshaid song and create fucking ~*~magic~*~

I think her makeup looked best in the beginning of the BTD era. Now it's just messy.

Ah thanks for that. Not to demean the talents of her makeup artist, but I didn't think her makeup looked very polished, which was why I thought she maybe did her own.

behindlana.tumblr.com just leaked the third demo of "Seventeen" by Marina and the Diamonds. They haven't posted much yet, but their first post says "Our intentions are simple. We are here to leak". They have already proven they are going to leak stuff, so hopefully we'll get some more songs soon!
 
http://behindlana.tumblr.com/post/53893585802/new-leak-seventeen-demo-3

It needs to grow on me, I guess.

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I was pretty annoyed by the original cover, so I did something about it.

Why do you have Madrigal as your Charli XCX cover?

Your guys's awesome covers and organization of the songs makes me want to get WAAAAY more organized with my library... I'm too embarrassed to post mine... It's a mess. There are duplicates, things that are still mislabeled, things without cover art...

Yay, the chain is broken. Now I can show off my finished (finally) Charbrary.
 

I LIKE DINOSAURS, PTERODACTYL HEAR ME ROAR!

2008
Fearless
Beach Hut in Hawaii
Do It Well
I Like You
Dinosaur Sex!
Too Cool (either 08 or 07)
 
2009
I Wanna Be Darth Vader
 
2010
Machines
A Princess Song
 
2011
Interior
I'll Never Know
B!TCH ZO SXC
 
 
???
Photography (2008?)
Valentine
Train in Vain
Another Romantic Situation
 
if any receipts are needed I got em

I just bought 'No Requests' by Ocelot. Now I have to wait for it. Yay.

Omg so selfish
 
Too exclusive
 
Clusterfuck 2.0

You really can't compare True Romance and 14 lyrically or sonically. Each album set out with two different goals, and two different set sounds. 14 was more just Charli making the music "she wanted to hear", while it was a bit more acoustic than we had expected, I don't think its quite fair to compare it True Romance and vice versa. True Romance was from the start and electro-pop record about love, while 14 was more just an album of songs Charli wrote and liked, there wasn't a strong theme, so while you could argue that the lyrics from 14 are more heartfelt, True Romance was written with a bit more restriction. However its also not fair to completely rule out 14 because of the lack of co-writers and producers, not to mention label backing. So what I 'm trying to get at is that it's not really correct to claim that one is "better" than the other unless talking about it from an opinion standpoint.