{"id":14708,"date":"2015-07-19T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T20:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=14708"},"modified":"2015-07-19T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T20:34:43","slug":"charli-xcx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2015\/07\/charli-xcx\/","title":{"rendered":"CHARLI XCX"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Issue38-charli-xcx\"<\/h1>\n

CHARLI XCX<\/b><\/h1>\n

The red-hot songwriter channels a variety of influences on her latest<\/b><\/h3>\n

Charli XCX is blowing up\u2014from her co-writes and features on Icona Pop\u2019s \u201cI Love It\u201d and Iggy Azalea\u2019s \u201cFancy\u201d to her own solo hit \u201cBoom Clap,\u201d the 22-year-old U.K. singer-songwriter has dominated the airwaves for the past two years (and earned two Grammy nominations).<\/p>\n

After releasing several under-the-radar singles from various mixtapes, an EP and her 2013 debut album True Romance<\/i>, Charli XCX (born Charlotte Aitchison) finally found success when \u201cI Love It\u201d was selected as the theme song to MTV\u2019s Jersey Shore<\/i> spin-off Snooki and JWoww<\/i>\u2014and was heard in an episode of HBO\u2019s Girls<\/i>. From there, her career took off\u2014her \u201cFancy\u201d collaboration with Azalea spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 last summer.<\/p>\n

For her second studio album, Sucker<\/i>, Charli XCX was determined to follow up that success by making a classic pop album. She co-wrote every song, with influences ranging from 1960s y\u00e9-y\u00e9 singers such as Brigitte Bardot to \u201980s new wave and punk by the likes of the Ramones to \u201990s power pop \u00e0 la Weezer. In fact, she collaborated with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo. \u201cI went to his house in Santa Monica, and we wrote two songs together in one afternoon in his back garden,\u201d she says. \u201cOne, \u2018Hanging Around,\u2019 made the cut. You can definitely hear his touch in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also wrote with Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend. \u201cI took him to this old, empty hotel in the-middle-of-nowhere Sweden to write and record\u2014and drink Champagne. I organized a writing camp with some friends, and we were the only ones there. He\u2019s a very different songwriter from me. He likes to take his time and work slowly and double-check everything, whereas I usually blaze through not thinking about anything. He taught me patience.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Charli XCX also worked with other high-profile male songwriters and producers\u2014including Greg Kurstin and Benny Blanco\u2014the record underscores her own feelings about female empowerment. \u201cThere are songs about romance, but there are also songs about owning and controlling your body, and my experiences in the music industry as a woman,\u201d she says. \u201cI would like to have listened to this album when I was 15 and see a different type of female in the spotlight. It\u2019s sexy, just in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Katy Kroll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHARLI XCX The red-hot songwriter channels a variety of influences on her latest Charli XCX is blowing up\u2014from her co-writes and features on Icona Pop\u2019s \u201cI Love It\u201d and Iggy Azalea\u2019s \u201cFancy\u201d to her own solo hit \u201cBoom Clap,\u201d the 22-year-old U.K. singer-songwriter has dominated the airwaves for the past two years (and earned two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[7450,7665],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14711,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14708\/revisions\/14711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}