If Charli XCX had gorged on all that pop stardom had to offer when it was first presented to her on a silver platter nearly a decade ago, she would be unrecognizable by now.
That isn’t to say that she wouldn’t have been able to convincingly slide into the Main Pop Girl role post-”Boom Clap” and “Fancy” in the early 2010s – she might have actually done so a little too meticulously.
From the very beginning of her mainstream presence, Charli has demonstrated a monstrous natural instinct for the melodic and lyrical structures that reflect the best of what pure pop music has to offer.
She even had the quintessential Tumblr It Girl image on lock. And once she was signed into a five-album recording contract with Atlantic Records, she had all of the resources (read: money and access) she could possibly need to dominate as one of the genre’s most prolific figureheads.
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