Charli XCX set out to write and record an entire album in quarantine. You'd be hard-pressed to name a pop star as uniquely suited to the challenge. meaghan_garvey reports on pop’s reigning futurist
Photo: Charli XCX and Collage by Stevie Remsberg Charli XCX is levitating a couple of feet over a DJ booth. “My fans like pop music and poppers. Guess they really know what’s uppppp!” she drawls like an automaton with vocal fry. Air horns pierce through the torchlit rave dungeon. As she reaches the chorus of a new demo she’s calling “Generation,” the crowd has fully turned into a mosh pit, including someone in a Scream mask.
Three weeks before How I’m Feeling Now’s scheduled release, Charli stress-cried about the album, but today’s she’s feeling good. Isolation suits her better than she’d expected. “Obviously, I wish this wasn’t the situation we’re all in,” she tells me. “But I’m quite enjoying what self-isolation is forcing me to do, which is to be really present in my space.
I’m hard-pressed to name a pop star as uniquely suited to the challenge that Charli has constructed for herself. As a precocious teenage songwriter who’d record demos in her bedroom and regularly drag her parents to London warehouse raves, where she’d perform in sunglasses and wigs, the artist formerly known as Charlotte Aitchison immersed herself in the mid-aughts Myspace scene — the primordial soup that spawned music discovery and networking as we know it.
With just over two weeks until How I’m Feeling Now’s release date, Charli posted into the void: “My album is supposed to come out May 15. I am feeling the pressure today. Fuck.” The stress loomed on her Zoom conference the next morning.
Between Charli’s normally hectic schedule, and the fact that the two live on opposite coasts, the past two months have been the longest time the couple have spent together, ever. Kwong has embraced his role as her collaborator, as is generally wont to happen to those in Charli’s orbit, taking photos for magazine spreads and helping her shoot videos. She has grown acclimated to recording verses about Kwong knowing he’s sitting in the next room.
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