{"id":5961,"date":"2017-09-01T07:10:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T05:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/?p=5961"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:23:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:23:33","slug":"charli-xcs-cracking-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/","title":{"rendered":"CHARLI XCX \u2013 CRACKING IT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CHARLICharli XCX, real name Charlotte Emma Aitchison, is a rarity in the music industry. <\/strong><\/h1>\n

Unlike other Brit hopefuls (the beauty was born and lives in Hertfordshire) she cracked the US market well before becoming a force to be reckoned with in the UK.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Charli (the XCX stands for \u201cKiss Charli Kiss\u201d – her old MSN Messenger username) wrote and sang on the smash electropop hit \u2018I Love It\u2019 for the Scandinavian duo Icona Pop. The track sold more than 2.5 million copies in the US and was such an edgy and catchy song it became known as \u201cthe US soundtrack to summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CHARLIShe also co-wrote and provided vocals for the Iggy Azalea track, \u2018Fancy\u2019 which sold 7 million copies worldwide and became 2014\u2019s most streamed track on Spotify in the States.
\nAmericans definitely got Charli XCX first. In May 2015, her breakthrough single \u2018Boom Clap\u2019 featured on the soundtrack to the US box office film \u2018The Fault in Our Stars\u2019 catapulted her to further superstardom. As a result she toured the US with her own headline show, \u201cGirl Power\u201d, and was awarded \u201cHit Maker of the Year\u201d at the 9th Annual Billboard Women in Music Awards.<\/p>\n

Not that the Brits and Europeans missed a trick here\u2026they were soon to follow. Charli had a few years out partying in Brazil and dating a producer 11 years her senior. It was her time to \u201cgrow up\u201d away from the media spotlight. It wasn\u2019t until 2015 that the singer acknowledged her real calling.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realised that I just wanted to be a f***ing boss. I decided I didn\u2019t 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 wanted to make songs that I really like.<\/p>\n

\"CHARLI\u201cI figured out who I was; it took me ages but was so liberating and amazing. I think it\u2019d be cool for young girls, especially, not to worry about what people think of them and not try to replicate what they think is the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite being only the tender age of 25 now, Charli XCX has 4 albums under her well styled belt. Charli made her first album aged only 14, back in 2007, with money she was loaned from her parents – which she was quick to dismiss as an \u201cexperiment!\u201d
\nTo this day, she is slightly annoyed that her early tracks, including the strangely titled \u2018I Wanna Be Darth Vadar\u2019 and \u2018Dinosaur Sex\u2019 are still easily found online.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t count that as the beginning of my career. But whatever. Everyone did embarrassing s**t when they were 14. My mistakes are just live online for everyone to hear!\u201d she admits.<\/p>\n

However it was exactly this \u2013 and her successful My Space page \u2013 which alerted industry music moguls to the young, raw talent. Charli also interestingly used to perform at Warehouse raves in London when she was too young to even have a drink at them! She was briefly signed by Asylum Records in 2010 but Warner Music was the label that catapulted her to success.<\/p>\n

\"CHARLIHer second album, her first proper studio album signed as an artist, entitled \u2018True Romance\u2019 was released in 2013 and the third, \u2018Sucker\u2019 released the following year to critical acclain.<\/p>\n

Charli XCX\u2019s stock was starting to rise at home. She opened for Katy Perry on the European leg of her Prismatic World Tour and later headlined her own UK tour. She also featured alongside R&B artist Tinashe on rapper Ty Dolla Sign\u2019s single \u2018Drop That Kitty.\u2019<\/p>\n

So far this year she has launched her mixtape \u2018Number 1 Angel\u2019 in March to rave reviews but has said her new (as yet untitled) album originally scheduled for 2017 will not be out till early 2018. She has been working on her video for the first single \u2018Boys\u2019 which she also directed and stars a parade of preening male celebrities.<\/p>\n

\"CHARLIWhether you\u2019re a fan of Charli XCX or not you have to admit she is a true all rounder; writer, lyricist, singer, dancer, director and she knows the direction she wants to head in. Whilst she was embarrassed about her pop heritage she has now firmly embraced it \u2013 and blends a perfect mix of electropop, breathy singing and clever lyrics to provide mass appeal in the US, Europe and now finally the UK.<\/p>\n

You can catch Charli XCX on the Main Stage at MTV Gibraltar Calling on Saturday 2 September. Get your tickets for the event at www.gibraltarcalling.com<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"CHARLI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charli XCX, real name Charlotte Emma Aitchison, is a rarity in the music industry. Unlike other Brit hopefuls (the beauty was born and lives in Hertfordshire) she cracked the US market well before becoming a force to be reckoned with in the UK. Charli (the XCX stands for \u201cKiss Charli Kiss\u201d – her old MSN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-features","category-rock-out"],"yoast_head":"\nCharli XCX is a rarity in the music industry<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Charli XCX is a rarity in the music industry. Unlike other Brit hopefuls she cracked the US market well before becoming a force to be reckoned within the UK\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charli XCX is a rarity in the music industry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Charli XCX is a rarity in the music industry. Unlike other Brit hopefuls she cracked the US market well before becoming a force to be reckoned within the UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Brighton\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-09-01T05:10:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-09-29T12:23:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2017\/08\/CHARLI-XCX-COVER-STORY-MARBELLA-ROCKS-SEPTEMBER-2017-HI_RES_SHOT_GRACoL_Olivia_Malone-1-e1504261227404.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1430\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/\",\"name\":\"Charli XCX is a rarity in the music industry\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-09-01T05:10:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-09-29T12:23:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"description\":\"Charli XCX is a rarity in the music industry. Unlike other Brit hopefuls she cracked the US market well before becoming a force to be reckoned within the UK\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"CHARLI XCX \u2013 CRACKING IT\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/\",\"name\":\"Brighton\",\"description\":\"Your cutting edge global lifestyle magazine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/author\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Charli XCX is a rarity in the music industry","description":"Charli XCX is a rarity in the music industry. Unlike other Brit hopefuls she cracked the US market well before becoming a force to be reckoned within the UK","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Charli XCX is a rarity in the music industry","og_description":"Charli XCX is a rarity in the music industry. Unlike other Brit hopefuls she cracked the US market well before becoming a force to be reckoned within the UK","og_url":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/","og_site_name":"Brighton","article_published_time":"2017-09-01T05:10:43+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-09-29T12:23:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":1430,"url":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2017\/08\/CHARLI-XCX-COVER-STORY-MARBELLA-ROCKS-SEPTEMBER-2017-HI_RES_SHOT_GRACoL_Olivia_Malone-1-e1504261227404.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Estimated reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/","url":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/","name":"Charli XCX is a rarity in the music industry","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-09-01T05:10:43+00:00","dateModified":"2017-09-29T12:23:33+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"description":"Charli XCX is a rarity in the music industry. Unlike other Brit hopefuls she cracked the US market well before becoming a force to be reckoned within the UK","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/charli-xcs-cracking-it\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"CHARLI XCX \u2013 CRACKING IT"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/#website","url":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/","name":"Brighton","description":"Your cutting edge global lifestyle magazine","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/author\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6014,"href":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961\/revisions\/6014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}