CHARLI XCX: PART 1 (with i-D's Owen Myers)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
For the first in our new three-part series on Charli XCX, i-D’s Owen Myers returns to Pop Pantheon to chart the start of Charli’s iconoclastic and unlikely trail through pop. Owen and Louie trace Charli’s roots in England, starting when she was a teenage songwriter posting demos to MySpace and performing at raves in London. Then they discuss her charmingly DIY unreleased debut album, 14, her first brush with success with the surprise hit “I Love It,” her 2012 mixtapes, Heartbreaks and Earthquakes and Super Ultra, and her 2013 major label debut True Romance. Next they unpack “Fancy,” her first solo success with “Boom Clap” and the snappy pop punk 2014’s Sucker.
Join us next week for Part 2, in which w'ell be talking about Charli’s reinvention as an avant pop futurist beginning with 2016’s Vroom Vroom EP and through her self-titled 2019 record, Charli.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars, then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
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| 0:33.7 | of talents that feels out of step with the mainstream zeitgeist on them. Really anything that |
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| 1:48.9 | And of course, we'll be playing some Charlie XX there as well, which will be germane |
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