Tag: Charli XCX

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'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

With the release of her debut album just days before her 29th birthday, Tems already feels like something of the grand dame of Afropop. Even more than Tiwa Savage, who provided backing vocals for the likes of George Michael, Mary J. Blige and Chaka Khan before graduating from the Berklee College of Music, it is Tems the self-starter with...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJW-VvmRKsE In the summer of 2021, between the release of her pandemic-era do-it-yourself project how i'm feeling now and Crash her self-described 'major label sell-out record', Charli xcx wondered aloud with declarative intent whether hyperpop might be dead. Yet while Crash eschewed the maximalist tendencies of the label, with its bubblegum snap, goody bag choruses, compressed vocals and sickly synthetic...