33 h. ago Charli XCX details the highs and lows of fame and reveals why being a pop star is 'really embarrassing' in painfully honest Substack post

The British singer developed a niche following of fiercely loyal fans following the release of her debut album, True Romance, in 2013.

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52 h. ago Breast flashing trend empowers braless Sydney Sweeney, Billie Piper and Charlie XCX

A decade after the Free the Nipple movement started, Sydney Sweeney, Billie Piper and Charli XCX appear to be on a mission to desexualise the nipple and take ownership of their bodies

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3 d. ago Charli xcx injecting 'trout sperm' into her face in popular beauty procedure

Polynucleotides have been proven to help skin glow and retain a youthful feel, but now it has been revealed many are going to extreme lengths to get their injections

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5 d. ago Charli xcx plays version of herself in teaser for mockumentary The Moment

The ‘2024 period piece’ stars the Grammy-winning musician with Kylie Jenner, Rachel Sennott and Alexander SkarsgårdCharli xcx’s 2026 big screen onslaught is set to kick off with The Moment, a mockumentary starring the musician as a self-described “hell version” of herself.The film, based on an idea by the Grammy winner, is fiction but xcx has called it “the realest depiction of the music industry that I’ve ever seen”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Warp)Made using a cache of Y2K sample CDs that Daniel Lopatin salvaged from the internet’s fringes, the kaleidoscopic result speaks to contemporary information overloadIt should come as no surprise that the new album by Oneohtrix Point Never comes with a concept attached. They usually do. When not composing film soundtracks, or producing an eclectic range of other artists – the Weeknd, Anohni, Charli xcx, Soccer Mommy – Daniel Lopatin has released a string of acclaimed works, each with their own overarching idea.The “hyperreal world music” of 2010’s Returnal was inspired by the fact that people now see more of the world than ever without actually leaving their homes. In 2015, Garden of Delete had an accompanying origin story about an adolescent humanoid alien called Ezra; 2018’s Age Of imagined artificial intelligence attempting to recreate human culture after humans themselves had been rendered extinct. Lopatin also has an all-consuming obsession with nostalgia and forgotten pop c...

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6 d. ago House Prices in Kensington Drop Nearly £160,000 on Tax Fears

House Prices in Kensington Drop Nearly £160,000 on Tax Fears  Bloomberg.com

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7 d. ago Drones dropping Ozempic into prisons, jail chief reveals as fears grow weapons could be next

Charlie Taylor said lifestyle drugs are being smuggled in by air as the flying gadgets cause huge problems for staff with 'bales of cannabis' also being delivered alongside other illegal substances

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1 week ago WW3 fears as US Air Force drops 'nuclear gravity bombs' from fighter jet

The Energy Department and Air Force successfully completed the first-ever tests of dropping unarmed B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs from an F-35A fighter jet, the first and only tests so far of the B61-12

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1 week ago Wuthering Heights: bold new trailer for Emerald Fennell’s epic adaptation

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi lead the Saltburn writer-director’s Charli xcx-soundtracked take on Emily Brontë’s novel, referred to as ‘the greatest love story of all time’Emerald Fennell’s vision for Wuthering Heights is coming into focus.The first full-length trailer for the Saltburn writer-director’s already controversial adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel sketches out an epic love story – “the greatest love story of all time”, according to a title card – beyond the erotic visuals of the first trailer. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Robyn: Dopamine review – complex emotions, instant euphoria: no wonder pop’s A

(Young)After 2018’s mellow Honey, the beloved Swede’s heady comeback pairs production worthy of Daft Punk and Moroder with deep romantic realismAt the end of last year, during her triumphant gig at the O2, Charli xcx brought Robyn out onstage. In a sense, it was just the latest in a series of guest appearances on the Brat tour: a string of collaborators from the album and its ensuing remixes – Lorde, Billie Eilish, Troye Sivan and Addison Rae among them – had turned up at different shows to perform their parts live. But as well as contributing her verse to their remix of 360, Robyn also took centre stage, performing her peerless 2010 single Dancing on My Own. Released when at least some of Charli xcx’s audience were still in nappies, it didn’t sound remotely like a throwback even in the context of a gig based around one of 2024’s most acclaimed and agenda-setting pop albums: the star of the show’s willingness to cede the spotlight to her felt like evidence of Robyn’s influence over ...

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1 week ago Massive sum Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift and Charli XCX helped to add to UK economy last year revealed

DUA Lipa helped music boost the UK economy to the tune of £8billion last year.  The singer — whose hits include New Rules and Levitating — was one of the industry’s biggest money-makers as its contribution to the country’s coffers leapt by five per cent.  She saw album Radical Optimism debut at No1 in the...

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2 w. ago Charli xcx: House ft John Cale review – haunt me, then! An elegant, brutal taste of the Wuthering Heights OST

(Atlantic) Featuring a lugubrious monologue from the Velvet Underground legend, its jagged strings are more reminiscent of that band than anything on BratWhen Charli xcx says her first new material in more than a year is “something entirely new, entirely opposite” to the sound she pursued on the era-defining Brat, she isn’t joking. Taken from the soundtrack to director Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights, the darkly gothic House bears almost no relation in sound or mood to the contents of Brat: it was, she says, inspired by John Cale’s description of the sound of his old mob the Velvet Underground as “elegant and brutal”.Always skilled and generous at collaboration, here Charli xcx cedes two-thirds of the track’s vocal to Cale. He delivers a monologue – oblique and initially conversational, it turns increasingly ominous – in a voice that’s rich, sonorous and, to a certain kind of music fan at least, immediate recognisable. Weathered by time at age 83, it’s ...

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2 w. ago Charli XCX opens up on Wuthering Heights collaboration with Velvet Underground icon: ‘It made me cry’

Pop star says she’s a ‘huge fan’ of John Cale as they collaborate on harsh song for new film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel

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2 w. ago Charli XCX opens up Wuthering Heights collaboration with Velvet Underground icon: ‘It made me cry’

Pop star says she’s a ‘huge fan’ of John Cale as they collaborate on harsh song for new film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel

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2 w. ago Charli XCX teases ‘elegant and brutal’ new Wuthering Heights song with John Cale

The singer announced earlier this year that she was writing an album for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the novel by Emily Bronte.

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2 w. ago Jade Thirlwall reveals Little Mix 'cried' amid fear of being dropped by label

Jade Thirlwall has opened up about the harsh reality of being in Little Mix, revealing she and her bandmates sobbed at the height of their success amid fears they'd be dropped by their label

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2 w. ago Charli XCX feared being dropped by record label over critically acclaimed Brat album

Singer says she approached the album thinking ‘OK, I’m just going to do this one for me’

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2 w. ago Charli XCX says she feared being dropped from her label over hit Brat album

The record peaked at number one in the UK and reached the top 10 in 14 other countries.

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2 w. ago Uber Eats deliveryman refused to search for missing autistic son, 4, over fears his rating would drop if he stopped working, cops say

Jeremy Rouse admitted to police that once he noticed his son was missing he kept driving miles away because he didn't want to damage his Uber Eats rating.

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3 w. ago Charli XCX makes surprise admission about Brat album and teases huge change for her next record

HER sixth album Brat topped the charts and won her five Brit Awards, but Charli XCX feared her label was going to drop her over it because it is so out there. In a new interview, she explained: “I think when I was making it, I wasn’t thinking about the response at all. “I actually...

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