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Charli XCX: New Album Will Be "Really Groundbreaking For Pop Music"

"I just want it to talk for itself. And it will."

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Monday, February 22, 2016 - 10:00

Charli XCX has big plans for 2016 and it starts with her brand new album, which she tells us will be "really groundbreaking for pop music."

Talking to her on the phone literally hours before she picked up the NME Award for Best British Solo Artist last week (beating Adele, Noel Gallagher, Ed Sheeran, Florence Welch and Skepta!), we find out what the 'Fancy' hit maker has been getting up to with Pepsi MAX Cherry, her latest single with Mr Oizo, and try to prise as much info about the follow up to Sucker as we can from her...

MTV UK: So you've teamed up with Pepsi MAX Cherry for an interactive art installation - what did you have to do?

Charli: "I just described how I felt the drink tasted, which was like roaring through a cherry ice glacier with diamond eyes and lips, so very dramatic... And this amazing grafiti artist Insa created an art installation which moves when you look at it through an app, so it's all very hyper-real and he really brought my vision to life. Today we were just doing a photoshoot for the installation which I can't wait for everybody to see."

...and how did it turn out?

"It's great, it's exactly what my interpretation was, it's very bold and graphic and I like it a lot."

We're loving your team-up with Mr Oizo on 'Hand In The Fire' - will that be a part of your new album?

"That's a one-off for his EP. I've been a fan of him since I was like 14 years old and that whole record label, Ed Banger, if I'd have known when I was 14 that I was gonna work with them I probably would have passed out. I was really super into their music and they really inspired me to make my own music. So it was really great to work with him and his sounds are so weird and so creepy, I think it's really cool to pair that with the pop vocal that I did. The video's cool too, it's really funny. I really like the girl Flat Eric that was cool."

Mr Oizo - Hand In The Fire (feat. Charli XCX)

Us too! Did you get your own Flat Eric puppet?

"No but i'm gonna ask - that's a good idea!"

So you tweeted a few weeks back you were going to finish your album that week. Did you?

"Yeah it's done but there's still a lot of stages to go, you know mixing and all of that, but it's written and that's great and I think it's the best thing I've done and I think it's going to be really groundbreaking for pop music."

In what respect? Does pop music need a shake up do you think?

"I think it always needs a shake up and I think multiple artists do that but I want to push it...I've been collaborating with people from PC music so that's been very inspiring for me - the way they think about music and the way that they create music and transferring that into like a more pop realm is something that is cool and yeah, it's next level!

Do you have a name for it yet?

"Nope!"

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Bored on Friday night, spinning round just like I'm hypnotized, oh
Need some neon lights, wanna feel like I'm electrified, so help me out
Get your boyfriend's car, come and pick me up
Oh, let's take it for a ride
What trouble can we find?

One night and we're gonna come and crash the party
Weren't invited but we're feelin' so outrageous
Just like we're famous
Got one night, and we're gonna come and get it started
Now we're falling down the stairs, we act so shameless
(Come on, let's lose control, like!)

One night and we're gonna come and crash the party
Weren't invited but we're feelin' so outrageous
Just like we're famous
Got one night, and we're gonna come and get it started
Now we're falling down the stairs, we act so shameless
Just like we're famous (oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh)
Just like we're famous

Blown up like balloons, purple glitter flying through the air, oh
Sweat drips from the roof, hangin' out with Lucy in the sky of diamonds
Music playing loud, take me through the crowd, oh
Put your sunglasses on, don't care if we look dumb

One night and we're gonna come and crash the party
Weren't invited but we're feelin' so outrageous
Just like we're famous
Got one night, and we're gonna come and get it started
Now we're falling down the stairs, we act so shameless
(Come on, let's lose control, like!)

One night and we're gonna come and crash the party
Weren't invited but we're feelin' so outrageous
Just like we're famous
Got one night, and we're gonna come and get it started
Now we're falling down the stairs, we act so shameless
Just like we're famous (oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh)

Just like we're famous (oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh)

Just like we're famous

One night and we're gonna come and crash the party
Weren't invited but we're feelin' so outrageous
Just like we're famous
Got one night, and we're gonna come and get it started
Now we're falling down the stairs, we act so shameless
Just like we're famous
Just like we're famous (oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh)
Just like we're famous
Writer(s): KURSTIN GREGORY ALLEN, AITCHISON CHARLOTTE EMMA Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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We saw your performance in New York of 'Too Many Omens'. That had quite an experimental production, is that what we can expect from the album?

"So that's not actually on my record, I was performing at MOMA with my friend Andrew Wyatt and he wrote all of the songs that numerous girls came and sang throughout the day. It was a performance art piece based on the Vivienne girls so that's not actually from my record, that was a song that he wrote so yeah that's him, that's his project."

Who/what would you say your main muse has been for the new album?

"Just mainly the people I've been collaborating with ...and partying! It's been inspired by partying but I'm not really saying too much about it right now because I just want it to talk for itself. And it will."

Strong statement! Talking of strong statements, you were at the Yeezy Season 3 launch, what was your experience of the night?

"It was really cool, it was cool to listen to that record in such a huge space, and...what did I do that night? I actually went to another show afterwards and I mean the whole of New York Fashion Week was just a kind of a party which was great so yeah, party on!"

yeezy breezy beautiful w @lisa_tv
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yeezy breezy beautiful w @lisa_tv

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Finally, the BRITs are coming up - who, in your professional opinion, should talk home the Best Female Solo Artist award?

"Really strong category, I mean I don't know like, I really dont know! I couldnt even call it, they all had great records. I think it would be really great to honour Amy but I don't know, I have no idea, really strong category in my professional opinion!"

To view the Pepsi MAX Cherry art installment and the GIF-iti experience, a free to attend live event will be taking place at Ely’s Yard, The Old Truman Brewery in London on Saturday 27th February from 5.30pm- 10.30pm. 

27 Times Charli XCX Threw Some Serious Shade (With Her Sunglasses)

  • When her and her friend were totally matching in the shade stakes.
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  • When her 'The Craft' inspired outfit needed a bit more edge.
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  • When she was chilling in a limo and needed to look the part.
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  • When she nicked Willy Wonka's glasses for a gig.
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  • When she looked like rock'n'roll royalty.
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  • When she embraced the Japanese sunshine.
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  • When she got all 'scene kid' on us.
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  • When she styled it out like an outer space hippie.
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  • When she threw things all the way back and proved sunglasses have always been her staple accessory.
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    9 of 27
  • When she felt a little underdressed.
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    10 of 27
  • When she couldn't cope with the glare of the red carpet.
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    11 of 27
  • When she got close to BFF Rita Ora.
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    12 of 27
  • When her shades perfectly matched her outfit.
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    13 of 27
  • When being stuck on an airplane called for the biggest sunnies EVER.
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    14 of 27
  • When her reflective shades were outdone only by a fantastic pink wig.
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    15 of 27
  • When she just had to match Snoop in this epic snap.
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    16 of 27
  • When her and Jack Antonoff were just too cute to function.
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  • When she was literally the definition of a gothic romance.
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    18 of 27
  • When her and her mum were actual #twinsies.
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    19 of 27
  • When all she needed was a silky robe and her sunnies.
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    20 of 27
  • When she didn't choose the thumb life, but the thumb life chose her.
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    21 of 27
  • When she mixed things up with some incredible novelty shades.
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    22 of 27
  • When she looked like a 1940s Hollywood star.
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    23 of 27
  • When she somehow managed to top an already outstanding outfit.
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    24 of 27
  • When she let her shades do all the talking.
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  • When she rocked gold on gold and pulled it off flawlessly.
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    26 of 27
  • When she refused to wear colour anywhere else other than on her eyeballs.
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    27 of 27

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