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It’s a very good time to be brat. Two weeks after Charli XCX blessed us along with her sixth studio album, she’s given us some much-needed new Lorde. On Thursday, the 2 singers teamed up on a remix of “Lady, so complicated,” that features a susceptible verse about Lorde’s struggles with physique insecurity.
This collaboration is momentous: Within the unique model of “Lady, so complicated,” Charli XCX alludes to the web and trade’s longstanding behavior of pitting her in opposition to one other feminine singer due to their purported similarities as artists, together with the insecurity she’s confronted on account of the comparability. Followers speculated she was speaking about Lorde: Again in 2014, after an interviewer blended up Charli XCX with Lorde, even saying “Royals” was her favourite Charli observe, Charli performed together with the joke and followers adopted swimsuit, jokingly calling her Lorde at exhibits and asking her to carry out “Royals.” In a Could interview with Rolling Stone, Charli spoke about her jealousy and frustration over the comparisons. “When ‘Royals’ got here out, I used to be tremendous jealous of the success that track bought, and that Ella bought,” she mentioned. “You piece all these things collectively in your mind like: ‘She was into my music. She had large hair; I had large hair. She wore black lipstick, I wore black lipstick.’ You create these parallels and suppose, ‘Effectively that would have been me.’ Nevertheless it couldn’t have been as a result of we’re fully totally different folks … I believe you simply learn what you need into it since you’re feeling insecure about your individual work.”
In her “Lady, so complicated,” verse, Lorde — who final launched new music along with her 2021 album Photo voltaic Energy — shares her personal insecurities, revealing she put up partitions round her as a result of she was coping with body-image points and felt “scared” to be in photographs with Charli. “… For the final couple years, I’ve been at battle with my physique,” Lorde sings. “I attempted to starve myself thinner / After which I gained all the load again … I used to be trapped within the hatred / and your life appeared so superior … Forgot that inside that icon / there’s nonetheless a younger lady from Essex … I journey for you Charli.”
With that, the lady from Essex and the lady from Takapuna have put this fan-made beef to mattress. In the meantime, I’m nonetheless hung up on this 2017 tweet from Lorde, asking Charli and Carly Rae Jepsen to kind a “sizzling lady band” along with her someday. Ladies, please?
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