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. “How do I get in touch with Vernon??” she wrote on Twitter. If that wasn’t already reason enough to freak, she then tweeted at him, “wanna collab?” A few weeks later, he joined her for a new remix of “Beg For You,” produced by PC Music label head A.G. Cook and featuring Rina Sawayama., Vernon waxed poetic on how much Charli means to him and talked about the influence she’s had on his music. “I’m still having a hard time grasping this reality.
Undoubtedly, the only truly good thing about being famous would be getting to be simply perceived by your idols, let alone getting to work with them. In Vernon’s case, he thinks the collaboration was in no small part thanks to SEVENTEEN’s very vocal fans, who are known as CARATs. He believes he got the chance to work with Charli after enough of them tweeted at her.
Vernon has been obsessed with the pop star since her acclaimed self-titled 2019 album. “It was a whole new world for me, really,” he said in the interview. “I feel vulnerability, but at the same time, invincibility in her music. There’s something really beautiful about it.
It doesn’t seem like the industry has fully milked an overlap between the obsessive K-pop and hyperpop fandoms enough, andpoints out that the two genres have an overall shared affinity for electronic experimentation and genre-mashing. You can also hear Charli’s influence in SEVENTEEN’s music in terms of how technology exists as a character in itself, like on the glitchy, hyperpopFingers crossed for more hyperpop-K-pop collaborations.