CHARLI XCX (with Switched on Pop's Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan)
Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan of the podcast Switched on Pop join DJ Louie to talk one of pop\u2019s great agitators, Charli XCX. Charlie, Nate and Louie parse out the dueling instincts in Charli\u2019s career between her chart-topping ambitions and her impulse to disrupt the boundaries of pop. They situate her debut album True Romance amongst a slew of early \u201810s records treading the line between indie rock and pure pop while tracking what makes her first hit as a writer and feature, Icona Pop\u2019s EDM masterpiece \u201cI Love It\u201d, such a quintessential example of Charli\u2019s strengths as a songwriter, performer and student of popular music. They then ponder why Charli\u2019s second album Sucker underperformed commercially while she simultaneously topped the charts with her A Fault in Our Stars OST single \u201cBoom Clap\u201d and her feature on Iggy Azalea\u2019s \u201cFancy\u201d, discuss what makes Charli such a great fit in the world of PC Music, how her established pop persona affected the aesthetics of hyperpop, what makes her ongoing collaboration with A.G. Cook and others from his collective singular, and where her new single \u201cGood Ones\u201d signals she may go next. Finally, Charlie, Nate and Louie rank Charli XCX in the official pop pantheon.\nSend your questions to PopPantheonPod@gmail.com!\nJoin the Pop Pantheon Discord Tonight (11/4) at 8PM ET / 5PM PT!\xa0\nCheck Out Louie's Charli XCX Essentials Playlist\nFollow DJ Louie XIV on Instagram\nFollow DJ Louie XIV on Twitter\nFollow Pop Pantheon on Instagram\nFollow Pop Pantheon on Twitter\nFollow Switched On Pop on Twitter\nCheck out Switched on Pop