Charli XCX

[Adrift 4,813]

I've missed all these daily topics. 

[drewby 9,246]

Idk who William Orbit is but omg I saw she's working with Starsmith. 

 

And yessss the vinyl will be the perfect thing to have her sign when I see her in September.     

 

Basically famous for producing most of Madonna's Ray of Light and the only good tracks on MDNA tbh

[Sitar 22,207]

So we've got William Orbit, Starsmith, Patrik Berger, and almost certainly Ariel Rechtshaid for the next album.

 

Unless this William Orbit thing is for a different project again

[Madrigal 2,616]

I'm not big fan of Starsmith but this could be either good or bad....

1. It's Charli, so...

 

If a pt. 2. is necessary, Starsmith really isn't bad...he's been a Charli fan since 2010, in fact, and has worked on songs with both Marina and YADi (artists who she not only looks up to, but is friends with) - I'm surprised they haven't made music together before.

 

[comeintomybedroom 8,649]

If you miss any of the daily topics on the day of, go ahead and answer them whenever you can.

[comeintomybedroom 8,649]

DAILY CHARLIBOARDS TOPIC

July Second - Discuss your favorite Charli lyric and why it's your favorite.

[comeintomybedroom 8,649]

You're The One:

Yeah I’m dancin' in the darkness, three years before I was feelin' so heartless.

But your bones shined through, now I’m drinkin' love potion when I lay next to you.

 

It’s a criminal feelin', happiness cries and the tears are dreamin'.

My body is screamin', I’m staying right here, no, I’ll never be leavin'.

 

I can't explain why it's my favorite, it was just the first full verse of her's that I memorized. It's always the first thing that pops in my head when 'Charli XCX' comes to mind.

[Rafael 3,512]

I really like this entire paragraph in "So Far Away". I just couldn't delete a single sentence, because it all ties up so well together, but I did bold my favorite (I guess you would call it favorite Charli XCX musical moment) ones.

 

 

 

Get out my head, get out my bed
I don’t believe those, the words that you said
Pocket of lies, crystal blue eyes
Hit the ground hard when I’m dropped from the skies
You’re coming up when I’m going down
Never in sync so we just sink and drown
Press restart and reboot my heart
But I’m not a robot so I fell apart
Before the moment that we met we were chatting on the Internet
Getting kinda close through the posts that we were looking at
I was pretty confident, you were pretty into that
I linked you to my music just to see if you’d be into it
So fuck the prologue, read the Internet blogs
"Gonna love this star and it came from the clubs."
I wasn’t looking for a fuck, I was looking for a bad boy
Bad boy, motherfucker, destroy

 

As soon as I finish singing that last sentence and I realize I did it all without messing up the lyrics I always get this feeling of satisfaction 

[Sitar 22,207]

As soon as I finish singing that last sentence and I realize I did it all without messing up the lyrics I always get this feeling of satisfaction 

 

Similar achievements

 

I will do a top three because there's something so simple and wonderful about her writing that it's hard to choose:

 

1. I love the bridge to "How Can I", I think it's the strongest on the album:

 

It was boys and girls and girls and boys

The Southern Comfort from your comforter got destroyed

It was shady eyes with the violent noise

We on the graveyard digging where the love is void

We had a meltdown underground

Just a cemetery chick, but it's over now

But I still taste your bones when I’m all alone

You’re the best I ever had, but now you’ve got to go

 

2. Also this line in "I Like You", although it's half about her delivery:

 

Pretend lists of potential lovers dangling like a chain

Sweet smiles, bright eyes as we play the computer games

 

3. From "I'll Never Know":

 

What if I see you alone on the pavement?

Will my heart freeze, will the sun melt down my bones?

‘Cause when I think of you my fingers are quicksand

[iseeyouupsidedown 931]

The bridge of How Can I!!!!!! "We're on the graveyard diggin where the love is void". It's so amazing, it makes me wish I liked the rest of the song more...

I love the part in "I Like You" where she says "Flower pickin in the winter just to see what we can find". It's so cute and it gives me a pretty and kind of nostalgic image in my head.

I really like the bridge of interior because it reminds me a bit of the bridge in How Can I. Not sure if I like the lyrics as much as I like the delivery.

"Nothing says tomorrow is a guarantee. There's no way of knowing that you'll be with me" - from Lock You Up. I know it's simple but it's really profound and idk I just really like that short part. It can hold a lot of meaning.

"I cant quite hear what you're saying, because my body started shaking. Beaches and oceans earth is quaking, that's my heart that you were breaking" - from Grins. its just so powerful and sounds so heartbroken, and I love the way she delivers it live when she's going crazy.

[National Anthem 9,902]

I really like the opening of "Black Roses".

 

"Purple and scarred. That's the color that you'll be in my heart, my heart, my heart

I fall apart..."

[Jord 3,481]

This topic is so hard because I love so many of her lyrics, really. I love the "So Far Away" and "How Can I" lyrics Rafael and Sitar posted, respectively, so I am going to mention "What I Like":

 

Used to come around, you'd be knocking on my front door

Playing board games, horror films with the super gore

Thought that you were cute from the start, yeah, I'm pretty sure

You were like the medicine, the medicine I wanted and more

All along I wanted someone to vibe with

Found the guy I want the rest of my life with, ha

We on some husband and wife shit

I don't really care, 'cause I know that I like it

 

It's just PERFECT.

[Up All Night 49]

The lyrics to The Princess Song are really nice I think especially this bit

 

You make me scream on the outside

Make me reveal all my colors to you
You make me want to untie all my soul strings
You make me live in the lie
Box up the truth, push it to the side

You make me smile as I sink deeper into your ocean
Let's dance with the dolphins
Let's lie in the flowers
Let's swing from this starlight for hours and hours

 

I listened to it so much in like march maybe? when I liked someone and I thought it was like how I felt like put into words, and I just think it's lovely. 

 

There are other songs where the lyrics are super but I there are some words here and there I just can't figure out so... idk ? difficult to say absolute favorite yknow

[Madrigal 2,616]

Seems I'm a little late to the party, seeing as all my favourite lyrical moments are posted now (thanks to @, @@SitarHero Hero, and @@Up All Night), but I think there are a few more moments left for me to bring up. 

 

1. ​The whole thing of 'Lonely Jaguar' is seriously brilliant. Of course, now we know it's a cover, of a musical at that, but fact remains that we probably would have never heard it without her performance...just a beautiful piece, truly haunting. 

 

2. I adore the verses of 'Emmeline'. Very menacing vocals, but when you can decipher the things she's saying, just wonderful. 

 

Get tipsy, tricksy, Dixie
Burning colors in your brain
Emelline just ruled the world
And it won’t be the same
Unknot your lips, embrace the trips
And tend after your tails
Or tie me to the kitchen chair if all else fails

Acoustic treats, sadistic beats
Get your shoes, move your feet
Emelline, you’re running out of time to impress
Take off your dress and let them look at the scars
From when you met the stars in the backseat of your car

 

I know you lie, Emelline, with your lips
Standing like a dollar glass around your neck
Just cover it up
Put on your spectacles and be a good girl like Mommy said
Don’t let the pills affect your head
Keep your eyes wide and secretly smile
And everybody will try to connect with you and adapt to you
They’ll want to dance with you
They’ll have to crawl across the room just to get to you

 

3. 'Dinosaur Sex!' and 'Interior' just have a lot of really witty phrases...so do both versions of 'Machines' and 'Photography', but the last two are undeniably creepy. There were so many directions her career could have gone, it's amazing we still have a few demos to contrast to the route she ended up taking. 

 

[Adrift 4,813]

The second verse of Black Roses.

 

"Set in the garden of sin, like an angel with dirty wings tainted by taste of the soul, this is another level."

[VelvetDreamer 45]

I really love the this verse in 'Velvet Dreaming (LUV)'

 

Stay hollow fire,
You are my one desire,
But you will never tire,
Because you always keep on taking me higher,
Super sweet, like a French bon-bon
Super story, hollywood dot com
Got my heart dressed up like a debutante
You’re the apple of my eye you're the only one

 

it's just so sweet and I love to sing it from the song it's perfect

 

or this from Just Desserts

 

They always said I was a mess of a girl, 

Ever since you stepped your toes into my perfect world,

You flipped me upside down but I see clear from here, 

That you're a mess of a boy, you'll cry these tears for years 

Look in the mirror baby 

 

it's a perfect revengeful lyric and i can relate a bit so that's probably why I really like it

[Hundred Dollar Bill 21,803]

Yay, we all have different favorite lyrics! Mine are favorites for delivery and just for general etherealness. She's such a great writer. 

 

Got a diamond desire, gonna step into the blue fire

 

I climbed a wall to touch your shadow

I hear you call for me

But you're not there, you're just an echo

Why did you fall for me?

 

I'll build a rocket and I'll fly to space

Just so that I can touch your picture-perfect face

 

In the box of doom,

In a hotel room,

You're across the sea

But you're near to me

You know, you gave me hope

And now I stay afloat

 

Your bones and my bones will always shine

 

Oh, and my favorite lyric, probably the best one she's ever written is:

 

Gonna sit there on the sand

Hold your hand in my hand

'Cause we're gonna start a band

And it's gonna be grand

 

                           

[Jord 3,481]

Yay, we all have different favorite lyrics! Mine are favorites for delivery and just for general etherealness. She's such a great writer. 

 

Got a diamond desire, gonna step into the blue fire

 

I climbed a wall to touch your shadow

I hear you call for me

But you're not there, you're just an echo

Why did you fall for me?

 

I'll build a rocket and I'll fly to space

Just so that I can touch your picture-perfect face

 

In the box of doom,

In a hotel room,

You're across the sea

But you're near to me

You know, you gave me hope

And now I stay afloat

 

Your bones and my bones will always shine

 

Oh, and my favorite lyric, probably the best one she's ever written is:

 

Gonna sit there on the sand

Hold your hand in my hand

'Cause we're gonna start a band

And it's gonna be grand

 

                           

 

JA-MAI-CA-A! When I'm ol-dah I am gon-ta leaf in a beach hut in hawai-i!

[Pretend 367]

Beach Hut in Hawaii is a lyrical masterpiece. 

[iseeyouupsidedown 931]

I love a bunch of the ones you posted, many of them are favorites of mine as well. It's so hard to pick. 

 

I really like most of the lyrics in I'll Never Know. The "Build a Rocket and I'll fly to space just so that I can touch your picture perfect face" as someone said above me is great.

 

And the chorus I guess you would call that part: "what if I see you alone on the pavement, will my heart freeze will the sun melty down my bones? etc"

 

Actually I'll Never Know is probably one of her best, Imma listen to it now... It should've been on True Romance... I sort of forgot about it tbh, I haven't listened to it in a while. Also I just realized that "Too Cool" and I'll Never Know sound kind of similar. I really like both.

 

I think the reason I haven't listened to I'll Never Know for a while is because it holds a special place in my heart about a feeling I no longer feel at all... I really liked a guy and I was moving off to school so we were going to stop dating, but then we dated after I moved anyway and did long distance and he even flew to see me once, but then I found out he cheated on me a lot so now I don't want to think about how I felt at that time, because it's not "I'll Never Know" anymore, since now I do know ... Such a pretty song though... Maybe I'll reappropriate it.