Charli XCX Emotionally Opens Up About the Impact of Late Producer & Friend SOPHIE
justjared.comCharli XCX is opening up about her late friend, SOPHIE. The 29-year-old “Good Ones” entertainer sat down for an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music. Click inside to read more… During the interview, she spoke about the impact of friend and collaborator SOPHIE, who tragically died in 2021. “SOPHIE was one of my biggest champions when it came to me doing things on my own, me being a pop star, me being fierce. SOPHIE was always pushing me to do that. SOPHIE was always pushing me to not record with auto tune, which I think people would find quite interesting.
But she was, she was always like, ‘Just sing with your voice. You sound great. Let’s do this like that.’ SOPHIE was just a champion of people that she believed in.
And no matter what level you were as an artist, if you were a big artist or if you were her friend who was making music with her in her studio and no one else had heard any of the songs at all.
She believed in those people. She thinks people are stars. And when she thinks you’re a star, she’s not going to let you do yourself an injustice by not going for it,” she said. “So there have been a few times in this album process where I have thought, ‘Oh, what would SOPHIE think about this?’ Or ‘What would SOPHIE tell me to do right now?’ And the answer always is, SOPHIE would just always be like, ‘Do your thing.
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