Girl, Whatever with Charli xcx & Aidan Zamiri
The A24 Podcast
A24
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Topics covered include:
Aidan first becoming aware of Charli, early demos of “I Love It,” Scandi accents, the whelks at Caroline Polachek’s birthday, silliness as high art, imposing structure, growing up on Tumblr, voyeurism, Aidan’s work with Timothée on the Marty Supreme campaign, a general sense of FOMO, teapot necklaces, Aidan’s mom’s notes on the “Guess” music video, not wanting to present yourself as an entrepreneur, embracing embarrassment, Charli’s early tracks like “Dinosaur Sex” and “I Wanna Be Darth Vader,” being a tiny bit hungover, and a brief round of the Cauldron Game.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Aden Zamiri. Hi, this is Charlie XEX. And this is the A24 podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Great, that was great, that was great, that was great. Here we are. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, Charlie. Hi, Aiden. |
| 0:12.0 | You look amazing. So do you. Thanks. We're doing the A24 podcast. We finally made it. |
| 0:18.0 | We finally made it. Do you know, I i was about to do maybe you won't like this |
| 0:22.5 | i was about to say welcome to charlie xx's best song ever wow you're in the deep cut that's the |
| 0:28.7 | thing about me if there's someone that could write a wikipedia page about me it's me how long |
| 0:35.7 | have you been a fan of mine? Great question. |
| 0:38.1 | Great question. |
| 0:39.1 | Okay. |
| 0:40.3 | So I think I think I must have come across you and around the time of you, ha ha ha. |
| 0:48.7 | Wow. |
| 0:49.2 | Which in 2025 the year we are no longer in. |
| 0:58.0 | That song was kind of going viral on TikTok. And you know, I think it's a really inspiring TikTok trend. |
| 1:02.0 | I know, whatever trend. |
| 1:03.0 | I didn't do it. |
| 1:04.0 | I think you could still. |
| 1:06.0 | I think it's a bit late now that we're in 2026. |
| 1:09.0 | We're in January 2026. The reason I think that trend was actually really exciting was it sort of, it sort of represented |
| 1:17.6 | freedom. |
| 1:19.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.7 | Absolutely. |
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