Ones to watch in 2013: Charli XCX
"Yep, we could get to like this one"
Meet the singer who piles
on the 90s references to create a self-contained world of Day-Glo
poptasticness
Charli XCX's route to success has been slow, at least in the hyper-accelerated world in which she lives. The 20-year-old singer was first noticed in 2008, when she featured on post-dubstep tracks by acts including Alex Metric. Since then, she has released two mixtapes, toured with Coldplay and ridden the spurious Tumblr-wave genre alongside the likes of Kitty Pryde and Grimes.
Charli, though, simply sees herself as a pop singer. "I love pop, that's always what I've wanted to do," she says. "Do pop but with my point of view – to inject some magic." That demand for magic is what underpins her take on pop – be it a collaboration with the likes of LA rapper and stripper Brooke Candy on Cloud Aura or having You're the One remixed by the Internet.
We meet at her flat in west London, a wonderland of 90s pop nostalgia, with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figurines and Spice Girls paraphernalia. She's wearing a sort of Sporty Spice-gone-glam outfit, complete with a crop top, lamé leggings and lashings of eyeliner, and giggles at the idea of being a slave to mainstream fashion.
"I've always been obsessed with the 90s in a really unhealthy way," she says. "I love the Spice Girls and Shampoo and Aqua; the marriage of bubblegum pop and super-grunge really excited me. I came from the warehouse rave scene, where the whole club kid/extreme fashion thing was really interesting. It's always been a part of me."..........
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/jan/03/ones-to-watch-2013-charli-xcx?intcmp=122
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