Charli XCX's Crash (with Owen Myers)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Freelance Music Journalist for the New York Times, Pitchfork, The Guardian and more, Owen Myers, joins DJ Louie to tackle Charli XCX's recently released 5th studio album, Crash, which Owen recently reviewed for Pitchfork. Louie and Owen discuss Charli's assertion of this album cycle as her "main pop girlie era" and whether that's really come to fruition, how Charli shrewdly draws on '80s titans like Janet Jackson, Cameo, New Order and Eurythmics as well as novelty '90s dance songs like September's "Cry For You" to create the sonic palette for the album, wonder where her true career ambitions lie between her avant-garde instincts and her desire to play in the mainstream, her prickly relationship to writing personal songs, break down The Crash Tour, and rank Crash in the Charli canon.
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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. |
| 0:18.7 | This is your host, DJ Louis X 14th, and I want to welcome you |
| 0:21.4 | to a very special episode. But before I get into that, I want to do my normal rundown of |
| 0:27.2 | housekeeping things. Guys, if you are in L.A., come and see me, DJ at my new party next Friday, |
| 0:35.8 | April 22nd at Resident in downtown LA. |
| 0:39.3 | It's called Gorgeous Gorgeous. |
| 0:40.9 | It's a queer party, but we're welcoming all allies in as well. |
| 0:44.5 | We'd love to have you. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm going to be playing all your favorite pop hits all night, obviously, lots of pop |
| 0:50.0 | girlies, mostly girls, maybe a Charlie Puth song, who knows. |
| 0:53.4 | And it is going to be so much fun. I put this thing together with my friends, Fran, Omri, and Lala. We've been working so hard on it. It's going to be so fantastic. We've incredible drag performers coming. And if you do come, please make sure you come say hey to me if you're a pop pantheon listener because we're family. So I want to meet some of you guys and I want to play great music for you. |
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| 1:39.4 | And that's it. |
| 1:40.8 | This is a special episode. |
| 1:46.6 | I was so enthralled reading so many great reviews of Charlie X-'s Crash. And I know we've already done our Charlie episode, but I know this is an album that so many listeners of the |
| 1:51.6 | podcast are into and have tons of thoughts on. So when I read The Brilliant Owen Myers' review in |
| 1:57.9 | Pitchfork, I thought, great opportunity to have him on and we could just |
| 2:01.4 | key key a little bit about Crash, how we're feeling about it, where it stands in her discography, |
| 2:06.6 | how it's altered her trajectory as a pop star in any meaningful ways, and just sort of get into it |
| 2:11.8 | about Crash. So here's that conversation with Owen Myers. I am here with freelance music writer. |
| 2:20.3 | He's written for Pitchfork Guardian, New York Times. |
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