Thursday, 2 July 2015

That's Entertainment : Charli XCX


After self-recording and producing a handful of indie singles as a 14 year old then recording a debut album and handing them out at raves, Charli XCX came to notice after writing Icona Pop’s I Love It.

And with the quick release of her first and second studio albums, augmented by a string of snot-nosed, J-Pop inspired, bombastic, booming party anthems and video clips, Charli XCX has hit the mainstream in a big way.

Playing up the Lolita pop image and rocking and raving harder than most ‘rock’ acts, Charli XCX is brains too.  She writes (or co-writes) her own material, acts the brassy badass and tears up the stage.  She swans in to town, glams up, reaches in and rips out your heart, and sneers her way through what could only be described as the ultimate feminist fantasy.

Move over Madonna, clear off Rihanha.  Charli XCX is beauty and the beast.

Don’t believe me?  Check out Boom Clap (a song attached to the teen movie The Fault In Our Stars).  It’s a glam stomper Marc Bolan would be proud off.  Funny story too - in-between balls at the cricket all summer they play snippets of songs.  This boomed out every so often and for weeks I couldn’t pinpoint a lyric to search and when I did, I came up empty.  It was only when I went to the Australia Vs England One-dayer at the SCG that a young English backpacker and his mate used Shazam to tell me who it was.  

I ended up buying the Japanese version of the new album Sucker cause it had all the hits sung in Japanese as bonus tracks.  Ha!

I’d like to think Charli XCX has a big future.  I’m kicking myself I didn’t go see her at The Metro in April.  Least of all because I could have scored a cool t-shirt or two.  That said, no one wants to see a thirtysomething lurching around a gig full of young ‘uns daubed in gloss and glitter and dressed like jailbait.

Charlie XCX!  Better than candy in your pocket outside a school!  Check it out!














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