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Cosmopolitan
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Marina Squashes Charli XCX Beef, Says She 'Fully Deserves' Success
According to Marina Diamandis—aka MARINA—Charli XCX has worked it out on the remix in more ways than one. During a recent interview with Rolling Stone ahead of her album PRINCESS OF POWER's release on June 6, the 'Butterfly' singer revealed that any old beef between her and Charli has officially been squashed. When Charli and Lorde worked their complications out on the remix of 'Girl, so confusing' last summer, it struck a chord with Marina. She sent Charli a message on social media and admitted that the 'courageous' track made her cry amid their own falling out, which marked a moment of reconciliation between the artists. 'I think these moments are important. It was sweet to see people respond to that,' Marina told Rolling Stone. 'I love her work and it's so inspiring to see what she did with Brat. She just fully deserves it.' In case you need a refresher, the two Britpop darlings ran Tumblr back in the day thanks to the visual aesthetics brought forth by their True Romance and Electra Heart eras. The artists even toured together during the blogging site's prime in 2013. A few years later, they had a public falling out when MARINA called Charli out for participating in a photo shoot with a concept similar to her album art for her 2015 single 'Immortal,' which featured greenery and neon-colored fruit. At the time, she posted a social status, writing, 'Imagery is artistic property. Please respect your fellow artists.' The '360' hitmaker responded and sent 'positive vibes' along with her official statement, which reportedly read, 'You know what, sometimes you do a photoshoot standing in front of a plant, sometimes you do a photoshoot in black and white, sometimes you wear purple eyeshadow. Sometimes you shoot with the same photographer a fellow artist has shot with. That's just how things happen in the industry I work in. What was I supposed to do? Shoot it in the snow!?' Per Entertainment Weekly, MARINA also referenced her album FROOT when she commented on photographer Charlotte Rutherford's photo of Charli: 'That FROOT looks familiar!' The quote eventually became an inside joke across both fan bases over the years, and in 2023, Charli revealed that she and MARINA weren't friends on her private Instagram account, @brat_360. 'It's not like DEEP or anything, there's no negativity in my opinion, our worlds just don't cross. I will say I DID feel negatively years later because I just felt like I really looked up to her and almost saw her as a role model in a way, and when she publicly put me on blast via subtweet I was honestly really hurt and upset and confused and all the fans were coming for me and everything,' she wrote at the time. She continued, 'And I just thought we were friends so maybe she could have like, texted me or something ? So I just felt like she knew she was sending people to 'get me' online and as someone I looked up to I just thought that was really a mean thing to do at the time. Now I'm just like lol the whole thing is so funny like as if there was a beef over lemons. Pahaahha.' Now that things are good between the girlies, let this serve as a reminder that we can all listen to their 2013 collab 'Just Desserts' free of guilt. You're welcome for this treat:
News18
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Lorde Credits Charli XCX For Helping Her Embrace ‘Very Naked' Writing On Album Virgin
Last Updated: Lorde had collaborated with Charli XCX on the song Girl, so confusing from the album Brat. Lorde is set to release her first album in four years, titled Virgin, and the announcement has fans buzzing with excitement. The singer recently revealed a major influence behind the upcoming album, fellow pop star Charli XCX, known for her bold and edgy sound. In a recent conversation with BBC Radio 1, Lorde (real name Ella Yelich-O'Connor) shared how her collaboration with Charli on the remix of Girl, so confusing played a pivotal role in shaping Virgin. The original track, featured on Charli's album Brat, explores the complicated emotions she once felt towards Lorde. 'Brat coming out really gave me a kick in a lot of ways. It forced me to further define what I was doing because Charli had so masterfully defined everything about Brat, and I knew that what I was doing was very distinct to that," Lorde told host Jack Saunders. 'When a peer throws the gauntlet down like that, you're like 'Okay, yeah, we've gotta pick it up'. I've spoken to a lot of peers who've all had the same feelings. It's very sick and I'm so grateful to her," she continued. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lorde (@lorde) Lorde shared that she had been writing 'in this very naked way" and said that working on the remix with Charli helped her stay on that honest and open path. 'Brat came out and she was doing that from the other side of the coin almost and doing the remix together and meeting her in that place of rugged vulnerability and cracking open the thing. People responded really well to that – I was like 'Okay, cool, this is a good thing to be doing'," she said. In May last year, Charli XCX, in an interview with Rolling Stone UK, said, 'I was super jealous of the success that ['Royals'] got, and that Ella got," she said. Charli even reached out to her before Brat released, unsure how Lorde would react. But by then, Lorde already knew which track was about her. 'She was like, 'I can guess which one it is.' And so I was like, 'F***.' But she was so cool, and I was like… We sent these voice notes back and forth," Charli later told Apple Music 1. According to Charli, the remix was Lorde's idea from the start. 'She was like, 'Wouldn't it be cool if I did this response?' And I was like, 'Oh, my God. I can't believe this is happening. Yes.' And it was so quick," Charli told Zane Lowe. 'I mean, she said that on I think the Friday, and she sent me the thing, the verse by Monday," she added. Talking about the album, Lorde revealed Virgin on April 30 through an Instagram post. The cover shows a pelvic X-ray with a zipper and belt buckle. She just captioned it: 'Virgin." The album will be out on June 27. First Published:
The Spinoff
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Spinoff
Our piping hot first reactions to Lorde's brand new single ‘What Was That'
After a nearly four year hiatus, New Zealand's premiere popstar is back with a brand new single. It's been a thrilling few weeks of breadcrumbing for Lorde fans, as the New Zealand popstar has been teasing her return to the zeitgeist through mysterious silver duct tape on her shoes, rainbow water bottles and long-winded voice notes. Having not released any music since Solar Power in 2021, aside from her bitch-walk remix of Charli XCX's 'girl, so confusing', Lorde has stayed out of the limelight, dropping in only for the occasional cryptic post or newsletter. Today, that all ends. At 4pm Friday NZT she released her brand new single 'What Was That', and here are our piping hot reactions. Madeleine Chapman Disclaimer: My excitement for this single, which reached its peak immediately after the strutting TikTok teaser of two weeks ago, dipped significantly yesterday after watching a video of Lorde 'performing' the full song in Washington Square Park. After teasing an appearance that then was shut down by police before she'd even arrived, I thought Lorde was a genius. Thousands of people flocked to the park, posted about the new single, and thanks to police intervention, there were news write ups about it. Meanwhile, producer Dev Hynes (himself a revered musician) walked through the park with a speaker, playing the song as fans danced. What a smart and effective marketing move, I thought, and all the while she never had to appear. Then she actually showed up! And didn't perform the song but played it and danced to it while fans watched??? It catapulted me back to the 'shhhh' clips from the Melodrama tour and made me nervous for some reason. HUGE AND IMMEDIATE CORRECTION: Egg immediately on my face because I wrote that half an hour ago and Lorde's lip syncing at the park is in fact a stunning, Truman Show twist to end the music video. The music video really makes it, in my humble opinion. I am too ignorant about sound production to say more than 'I like this' when listening alone but I'm very into the handycam, early Youtube look of her music video. Big budgets are out (for many reasons) and cheapo aesthetics are in. She hasn't gone that way before – even her early music videos were sleek and narrative. But walking and cycling through rainy New York and then lip syncing to your own song with fans in some sort of Lordeception grotty home video? Yes. This album is going to be the messy break up album of our dreams. Also a testament to how hectic and fast-moving you have to be to get any publicity traction these days (sad). Releasing pop music after brat summer must be terrifying for every marketing department at every label but so far so fresh from Lorde. We're gonna be seeing a lot of electrical tape on Doc Martens (we love an affordable trend) and a real 'who gives a shit' attitude which is frankly appropriate. I can't wait to be shoulder checked by the skinniest young women in Auckland while trying to get a Sal's pizza on K Road. On to the actual song, I am a child of the 'hey!' era so you know I'm absolutely frothing the random shouts in this one. Lyric Waiwiri-Smith Who amongst us hasn't done MDMA with a dude they really liked, kissed for hours and thought 'this is the best cigarette of my life' … (not I, for legal reasons). Drugs in the back garden, blown up pupils, moving through a veil of smoke – I fear Lorde is officially so, so, so back, and without a Jack Antonoff credit, you're reminded this has always been her sound. I love Lorde because she always meets me where I'm at, and God can I relate to thinking 'what was that?' after having your heart completely ripped apart. I hope the return to her Melodrama era (this vibes like a sad 'Supercut' and a more dismissive 'Hard Feelings', and Melodrama was supposed to be her MDMA album) wasn't inspired by the Solar Power fallout, because I stand 10 toes down on that being a perfect record. But Melodrama was masterful, and a sad club banger (see: Charli XCX's 'party 4 u' and Robyn's 'Dancing On My Own') is always welcomed by the youth, especially post-Brat summer. According to my calendar, we are now officially in Lorde autumn, and I look forward to blasting this song through my headphones on the solo Uber ride home from the bar where the dude you really hoped would show up, didn't. Alex Casey Okay, I listened to the song twice and my heart was instantly hurting. The departure from the easy breezy 'I'm kinda like a prettier Jesus' confidence of Solar Power to this poor dear covering up the mirrors – 'I can't see myself yet' – is genuinely crushing, and those moments of pin drop silence between 'I'm missing you… I'm missing you' speak loudly of a heart split clean in two. When the chorus thumps in and hurtles us back to the memories of MDMA in the back garden etc, I was thinking a lot about the wild and fluorescent vignettes of 'Supercut'. It was on my third listen when I realised there was a also fucking MUSIC VIDEO and my brain leaked out my ears. Aside from the thrillingly fast 48 hour film competition turnover from Lorde's drone department here, this is such an interesting spiritual sequel to the 'Green Light' video (if we're considering this break-up album Melodrama II, which we are). Both show her traipsing through New York City in a state of heartbreak, but 'What Was That' feels less cinematic so much more raw, a pain that runs as deep and toxic as an actual literal sewer that she crawls out of. But where 'Green Light' ends with Lorde alone on a bridge, possibly at dusk but more likely at dawn, 'What Was That' concludes with her belting the already-viral hammer of the song – 'when I was 17, I gave you everything, now we wake from a dream, well baby what was that' – late at night with a crowd of thousands of fellow New Yorkers who have spontaneously gathered to see her. Whatever is coming next, she's got a bloody army behind her, and I for one will be physically restraining myself from purchasing a Lorde theme charm belt when they become available. Gabi Lardies An uplifting coming-of-age pop song! Lorde has given the world just what we need, a bit of reminiscing, a bit of nostalgia and a bit of mystery, since no one I've chatted to can quite decipher half the lyrics. The song takes a while to warm up, but where it goes is very, very high. Some might call it an emotional journey. I would say it's blown the weird silky spider webs of Solar Power off and Lorde is heading back to Melodrama territory. Although recently I've been feeling like Lorde has betrayed little old New Zealand – where was her surprise and highly expected appearance at Laneway?! – it seems you can't take New Zealand out of the girl. The music video has many number eight wire qualities: being filmed at a party where the cops turned up, being finished the very next day, shoes held together by tape, riding a non-electric bike without a helmet, wearing a bikini under jeans, etc, etc. Always nice to feel like a pop star is DTE (down to Earth). Alice Neville When I first listened I thought I found the song a bit meh, but now it's stuck in my head, which is a sign that it may in fact grow on me. I like the 'wearing smoke like a wedding veil line' but should Lorde really be singing about smoking the best cigarette of her life, or any cigarette, for that matter? MDMA in the back garden is fine, riding a bike without a helmet is fine, but do not get me started on cigarettes, those things are bad. Also, why does she have tape around one of her shoes? Jin Fellet My immediate reaction when watching the video was 'oh she's wearing the same outfit from her Washington Square Park appearance' and then I realised this all happened on the same day, and it makes more sense that the appearance was for the music video. I have been listening to Melodrama over the past week in anticipation of the new release, and on the full first listen, I can say I am a fan. I can imagine myself with a glass of wine, dancing alone to this in my living room. Welcome back Lorde.
Boston Globe
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Bernie Sanders makes a surprise appearance at Coachella
Clairo performs during the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on Saturday in Indio, Calif. Amy Harris/Amy Harris/Invision/AP Less than an hour earlier, Charli XCX commandeered a minimalist stage where she was joined by Troye Sivan and Billie Eilish, with an audience that included Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet in the front row wearing a big smile and a backpack. Advertisement As for that power transfer: After last year's 'brat summer,' the English pop star concluded her 'Girl, so confusing' performance with New Zealand electropop star Lorde by declaring 'Lorde summer 2025.' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Sanders' appearance wasn't the day's only dose of politics. Billie Joe Armstrong adjusted the lyrics of Green Day's set-opening 'American Idiot' to declare he's 'not a part of the MAGA agenda' and changed lyrics in 'Jesus of Suburbia' to 'running away from pain like the kids from Palestine.' T-Pain brought mash-ups and covers to the main stage, singing Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin'' and Chris Stapleton's 'Tennesee Whiskey.' T-Pain performs during the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on Saturday in Indio, Calif. Amy Harris/Amy Harris/Invision/AP Earlier, Weezer delivered a dozen songs in a well-received performance featuring 'Undone (The Sweater Song),' 'Buddy Holly' and a cover of Metallica's 'Enter Sandman.' Advertisement The band played four days after bassist Scott Shriner's wife Jillian Lauren was shot and injured by Los Angeles police. Lauren, an author of two memoirs, was arrested and later posted bail after police said she pointed a gun at them. Band members didn't specifically address the incident, but frontman Rivers Cuomo told the crowd, 'It feels so good to get out here with you guys and let out these emotions.' Rivers Cuomo, left, and Scott Shriner of Weezer perform during the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on Saturday in Indio, Calif. Amy Harris/Amy Harris/Invision/AP Coachella kicked off Friday with Lady Gaga headlining with a crowd-pleasing, extravagantly theatrical, five-act performance. K-pop star Lisa drew a massive crowd to the Sahara tent and Benson Boone announced his second album and sang 'Bohemian Rhapsody' with Queen's Brian May on guitar. The festival runs through Sunday, with another round of performances April 18 to 20. Travis Scott headlined Saturday night on the main stage with Post Malone set to perform in the final slot Sunday night.
Arab News
13-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Arab News
Coachella continues with Weezer, T-Pain and a Bernie Sanders appearance
INDIO: Coachella's second day featured high-profile guests from Hollywood and Washington, D.C., an emotional performance from Weezer and a peaceful transfer of power between electropop stars. Then there was Flava Flav joining the Yo Gabba Gabba characters on-stage to rap 'I love bugs!' The cultural breadth of the influential Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was on full display Saturday at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida traveled from a Los Angeles rally to the desert to introduce Clairo, praising the 26-year-old singer-songwriter's political activism. Less than an hour earlier, Charli XCX commandeered a minimalist stage where she was joined by Troye Sivan and Billie Eilish, with an audience that included Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet in the front row wearing a big smile and a backpack. As for that power transfer: After last year's 'brat summer,' the English pop star concluded her 'Girl, so confusing' performance with New Zealand electropop star Lorde by declaring 'Lorde summer 2025.' Sanders' appearance wasn't the day's only dose of politics. Billie Joe Armstrong adjusted the lyrics of Green Day's set-opening 'American Idiot' to declare he's 'not a part of the MAGA agenda' and changed lyrics in 'Jesus of Suburbia' to 'running away from pain like the kids from Palestine.' T-Pain brought mash-ups and covers to the main stage, singing Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin'' and Chris Stapleton's 'Tennesee Whiskey.' Earlier, Weezer delivered a dozen songs in a well-received performance featuring 'Undone (The Sweater Song),' 'Buddy Holly' and a cover of Metallica's 'Enter Sandman.' The band played four days after bassist Scott Shriner's wife Jillian Lauren was shot and injured by Los Angeles police. Lauren, an author of two memoirs, was arrested and later posted bail after police said she pointed a gun at them. Band members didn't specifically address the incident, but frontman Rivers Cuomo told the crowd, 'It feels so good to get out here with you guys and let out these emotions.' Coachella kicked off Friday with Lady Gaga headlining with a crowd-pleasing, extravagantly theatrical, five-act performance. K-pop star Lisa drew a massive crowd to the Sahara tent and Benson Boone announced his second album and sang 'Bohemian Rhapsody' with Queen's Brian May on guitar. The festival runs through Sunday, with another round of performances April 18 to 20. Travis Scott headlined Saturday night on the main stage with Post Malone set to perform in the final slot Sunday night.
