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i think Pop 2 was supposed to mean like pop part 2 ....AG tweeted charli is his favorite pop2star !

Yeah, it's supposed to be like the sequel to pop.

 

I reckon she should have called it Pop 2.0, that way it would have made sense straight away, and it would have worked with the whole PC Music gig


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another positive review for Pop2 (4/5 stars)... we love a critically acclaimed skinny legend

 

https://www.ft.com/content/d09cbbd8-dfc6-11e7-a8a4-0a1e63a52f9c

 

 



Britain specialises in backwards-looking pop music, the chart equivalent of the heritage industry. Amid the horde of retro-soul warblers and acoustic guitar-strummers — adorning national life like a tastefully modernised café in a National Trust property — Charli XCX stands out as a paragon of progressiveness.

Pop 2 is the second mixtape that the Hertfordshire-raised singer, real name Charlotte Aitchison, has released this year. It reunites her with the producer AG Cook of PC Music, an underground record label with a surrealist pop aesthetic. Charli’s voice is distorted into a computerised slur or cut-up into a sequence of samples, beats stutter and skip like a rogue computer hard drive, basslines boom, odd sounds ring out.

The style can be excessively arch. “Femmebot” sounds like Britney Spears’ robo-pop suffering a technological breakdown: the background smirk is unmistakable. But on the majority of the tracks Charli and her producer Cook deploy their meta-pop tactics with a skilful sense of dramatic engagement.

“Tears” brings to life a person’s ambivalent feelings for an ex-lover with fusillades of glitchy percussion alongside a deeper, more certain beat. “Lucky” calms the manic PC Music style into a futuristic hymnal with fluting processed vocals. “Out of My Head” illustrates lyrics about obsessive emotional attachment with an earworm array of hooks.

A large cast of guest singers and rappers appears, from chart-pop names (Carly Rae Jepsen, Tove Lo) to underground rappers (Cupcakke, Tommy Cash). Their contributions are well arranged, supporting rather than overwhelming Charli’s central turn. Meanwhile, she inhabits the challenging musical terrain fully, switching tempo and tone seamlessly. Her mixtape makes the past sound like a foreign country.

★★★★☆

 

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It's Sucker's birthday so let's give Charli's best song ever, Die Tonight a couple of streams girls !

 

But seriously, despite a few good songs and Mow That Lawn, I'm glad she found PC music. Also remembers when itunes radio (r.i.p. gone but forgotten) leaked the album?

 

underrated album featuring the bops break the rules,breaking up,gold coins,need ur luv and many more

Literally everyone hates it now but two years a lot of people were saying it was good

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underrated album featuring the bops break the rules,breaking up,gold coins,need ur luv and many more

Literally everyone hates it now but two years a lot of people were saying it was good

I didn't like it when it came out at all like at all. But now I enjoy the singles, I Need Ur Luv, London Queen, and Body of My Own. Everything else...ehhh. I would probably like it more without so much filler stuff.

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Sucker is such a cohesive album. And the songwriting is good. It beat out 1989 on Rolling stone's best pop albums of 2014 and was critically well received. 

 

It's just the production/ image Charli/ Atlantic was going for that we don't fuck with. 

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this mixtape is so weird like i genuinely really did not like it yesterday and i've been replaying delicious on repeat for the past 2 hours today

 

It's a grower unlike the very poppy N1A. Obsessed with Pop2 today after being underwhelmed just yesterday. Charlotte did that.

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Okay gays, I've reupload another link of the masterpost, but this is a reminder to ALL OF YOU who wants to link it:

 

PLEASE DO NOT POST THE FULL LINK ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET for all of our sake. There are bots running in this site that'll automatically scan for copyrighted files and take them down (I've had this happen when I posted the masterpost google drive AND IN MEGA TOO IF YOU DON'T BE CAREFUL). If someone is asking for a link for the masterpost, just post the instructions on how to get it, but for god's sake DO NOT POST THE WHOLE FUCKING LINK thanks

 

This is what you gays should copy and paste next time someone ask for one: 

 

http://links.snahp.it/27xcx

 
click the link above, the password is the first five letters of this forum's name (without spaces)
 
once you finally got the mega link, you'll need to enter decryption key, which you can find here: https://pastebin.com/UcCevQ6R (just copy and paste the whole pastebin)
 

once again, please DO NOT post links that begins with https://mega.nz/fm/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

 

already taken down

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