Charli XCX
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Biography
Charlotte Emma Aitchison, known professionally as Charli XCX, is a British singer, songwriter, and actress. She began posting songs on Myspace in 2008 before entering the London rave scene.
"I realised that I just wanted to be a f—ing boss. I decided I didn’t have to choose between being an artist and being a songwriter and just started to do both. I felt ready to go and make songs and not feel worried about making a cool record or getting a hit. I just want to make songs that I really like."
"I always felt like a loser. I had friends, but my school was full of blonde white girls and I was this half-Indian girl with frizzy hair and different interests. That always made me feel a little bit rejected. I thought if I made music, people would think I was interesting… Deep down, one of my biggest fears was being boring."
"These days, labels are really desperate for their artists to be liked, and the currency of niceness is really important in selling records, otherwise you’re bad, evil and wrong. You can’t separate yourself from your fans. Unless it’s extremely drastic and distant – and then that almost becomes the culture itself..."
"If there's intelligence behind an opinion, then I'm all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone for the sake of it - that's just not me."
"The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing."
"I love that '...Baby One More Time' video, to be honest; it's amazing."
"I do appreciate the '80s as an era, the general sounds and aesthetics of the era. The Cure, that whole kind of image is really kind of amazing, I think. The power ballads and how everything sparkles and words are really dramatic. Huge drums, things like that. I do really find it inspiring."
"I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I don't feel like she's just kind of saying something and not thinking; I feel like it's really emotional."
"I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I write my music. I'm also inspired by fashion, and I want my music to be a visual painting of what's in my mind."
"You choke my throatWith words of wonderYou make it hard to breatheYour love's so coldJust like an arrowPierced through my skin I bleed"
"My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy."
"There's something about girls together, uniting, that I just thought was cool."
"When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool."
"I think big brows are pretty cool."
"I think it's cool to be a rock star I don't think there are many. There aren't many who speak out and take risks. And I think that's important."
"I think the best people are the ones who are just as nice and fun. This is really cheesy, but you only have one life - why spend most of it pretending to be cool?"
"I'm lucky I have really cool parents."
"I was never the cool kid in school, and loads of people told me that I was weird, that I dressed uncool and did uncool things, that I was too nice, too happy."
"I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record."
"I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop."
"I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care."
"Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year - I think it would have been cool to be alive in the '60s."
"I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, but it just wasn't right."
"I made video art for quite a long time, and I made this video covering myself in burgers and dancing to Major Lazer and doing covers of Britney Spears songs... I can't remember how I got there, but my teacher said he'd have to fail me because it had mild nudity."
"When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter's body. But I kind of figured my way out because I started making these really terrible beats on this Yamaha keyboard that my parents got me for my 10th birthday."