As predicted by Charli XCX, working with Lorde on a remixed model of “Woman, so complicated” certainly made the “web go loopy.” And, it additionally touched one in all Charli’s earliest pals, Marina, who shared that she teared up whereas listening to the 2 singers work by way of their variations on the monitor.
“That is lovely. Simply cried listening to it,” wrote Marina on X Friday. “It’s so brave and people to make work about this subject and it’s so therapeutic to take heed to it. Congratulations on an iconic album @charli_xcx.”
Quickly after, Charli XCX responded to the tweet, writing, “Aww marina!! tumblr ladies rise!” In reply, Marina wrote, “Crying
On “Woman, so complicated,” Charli sings about her insecure tendencies round her “awkward” relationship with Lorde, with whom she doesn’t “have a lot in widespread” moreover being two of the web’s favourite artists. “We discuss making music/ However I don’t know if it’s sincere,” sings Charli.
aww marina!! tumblr ladies rise!— Charli (@charli_xcx) June 21, 2024
The trade between Marina and Charli additionally appears to seize the pair publicly burying the hatchet after a falling out in 2016 over a photoshoot. On the time, Marina wrote, “That FROOT appears acquainted,” a phrase that has now change into a meme amongst stan teams for each artists, underneath a photograph that appeared much like Marina’s promo footage for Froot, which dropped the yr prior.
On the time, Marina adopted the remark by tweeting, “Imagery is inventive property. Please respect your fellow artists.” In response, Charli issued an announcement defending herself for the picture and for working with the identical photographer as Marina: “I’m not right here to duplicate or ‘steal’ artwork… What’s the purpose in that?”
Earlier than the falling out, the pair labored collectively on a track referred to as “Simply Desserts” in 2013 that was by no means formally launched however is on the market on the pair’s YouTube channels. Charli additionally opened for Marina on the Lonely Hearts Membership Tour that yr.
Final yr, on her @360_brat Instagram, Charli responded to a remark and shared that the pair weren’t pals however that she had felt “truthfully actually harm and upset and confused” by Marina’s resolution to name her out on social media on the time.
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“I simply felt like she knew she was sending folks to ‘get me’ on-line and as somebody I appeared as much as I simply thought that was actually a imply factor to do on the time,” Charli wrote. “Now I’m identical to lol the entire thing is so humorous like as if there was a beef over lemons.”
Due to the fruit-related historical past, followers joked on X Friday that the pair of artists ought to, like Charli and Lorde did, “work issues out” on a remix of Charli’s track “Apple.” Marina additionally adopted Charli on social media following the candy trade.
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Marina is about to launch a poetry ebook titled Eat the World in October and instructed Rolling Stone in April she’s been writing new music however hadn’t “began producing something but.”
“The ebook has allowed me the area to have the ability to discover factor I wasn’t blissful about myself in a means that I simply don’t assume I may have with music,” she stated.