ICYMI - The Internet History of Charli XCX
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim is joined by Rolling Stone writer CT Jones and Switched on Pop producer Reanna Cruz to hold a retrospective on the internet history of Charli XCX, the founder of brat summer and a decades-long digital icon. They’re going all the way back to 2012, when a girl from Essex named Charlotte Aitchison hit the main stage with “I Love It.” They’ll dissect their first Charli XCX memories, the 2016 song that changed Charli’s entire internet career, and how her pandemic album-documentary led up to this moment, asking: Was it Charli’s Angels or Charli’s destiny?
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Candice Lim and you're listening to I see why am I. In case you missed it, |
| 0:17.1 | Slates Podcasts about Internet Culture. And today we have two great guests on the pod. |
| 0:23.1 | First up, I am joined by Rolling Stone writer CT Jones. |
| 0:26.1 | Hello, CT. |
| 0:27.5 | Hi, I'm so excited to be here. |
| 0:30.6 | So excited, because who else is joining us? but a music writer and a producer for |
| 0:35.0 | switched on pop it's Riana Cruz. Hello Riana. |
| 0:37.0 | Hi Candas, happy to be here. |
| 0:39.0 | Today's episode is going to be a retrospective on the internet history of Charlie XCX, but first we need to settle |
| 0:46.1 | something because am I right neither of you have been on the show before? |
| 0:50.0 | That is correct. That is correct. I need to ask the question we ask all first time, yes. |
| 0:59.2 | But I'm going to put a spin on it. |
| 1:01.1 | Riana, I want to ask, what is your first Charlie X-X-E-X-M memory? |
| 1:06.0 | How did she enter your consciousness? |
| 1:08.0 | Wow, is it wrong to say Boomclap? |
| 1:11.6 | Because I feel like that was a lot of people's first Charlie XXX memory |
| 1:16.1 | the first thing that really impacted them. |
| 1:20.1 | This must be love. Boom clap. |
| 1:21.1 | Sound and my heart the beat goes on the non |
| 1:24.2 | and on the not that I'm |
| 1:25.5 | I would say that I would say that and I would also say you know in my internet days of your I was a moderator on the |
| 1:36.7 | subreddit pop heads what I moderated pop heads most of high school and you know I was |
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