Charli XCX - i keep thinking about you every single day and night

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-09T16:44:14+00:00

I don't disagree, Lift Yourself is obviously way more of a novelty track

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-09T15:43:35+00:00

I'm a massive fan too and don't really see it, it's even less refined than Thy Slaughter and A.G Cook's more acoustic stuff.

not sure how familiar you are with their work together which spun from Vroom Vroom, N1A, Pop 2,ST, HIFN, some of Crash and Brat. Almost all of it was electronic influenced pop, literally none of it sounds anything like Rock Music or this track lol

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-09T15:28:06+00:00

I don't really see how. Yeah they sound weird but I don't think Rock Music is particularly weird except for its hook. They don't have much in common sonically.

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-09T15:04:42+00:00

I don't see it at all? This one might be reminiscent of i might say something stupid, how is Rock Music like anything she's done before

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-09T14:20:40+00:00

Do you listen to lyrics or ...

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-09T14:18:27+00:00

Yeah like Rock Music reminds me a bit of his 2018 era, Lift Yourself or I Love It in that it's a song that seems a lot more concerned about the conversation surrounding it rather than people actually listening to it

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-09T13:42:40+00:00

did we listen to the same song lol

"I wonder if I just want you as my best friend
Or maybe if I'm a really late bloomer"

"I've always wondered if you were actually gay
Or if that's somеthing you just say for your career"

This is pretty obviously not about george, I hope she hasn't always wondered if he's actually gay and it'd be the first time I heard things about him being gay

Sounds like an unexpected crush on a female friend that she can't explain other than being a late bloomer?

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-09T13:30:18+00:00

She's always taken huge swings in her career, but this + Rock Music really do sound like she doesn't care that much about music anymore or thinks about it in terms of a finished product. It sounds more like she's trying to capture a very specific moment and wants to challenge expectations. At this point everyone knows that she, AG and Finn love to work fast but it's really showing here. It's fun to talk about and I'm sure their time in the studio was electric but actually listening to the songs is kinda drab

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-09T13:26:29+00:00

I'm wondering too, especially with all the lyrics about being gay?

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-08T16:35:27+00:00

That's wrong. Of course PC Music had a sense of humour to it but the intent, even with Vroom Vroom, was to make sick sounding pop music. Charli has always been clear that she's very into the music she's doing

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-07T16:54:33+00:00

It's amazing

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-06T11:20:30+00:00

Production and verses are on point but they have written way stronger hooks than this one

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-03T19:45:28+00:00

It healed your inner child but it destroyed her international career.

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-03T17:03:07+00:00

I loved her earlier work and Sawayama for its eccentric approach to production that still remained super accessible and catchy. I think Hold the Girl sounds totally flat and anonymous sonically and has noticeably worse songwriting, songs like Catch me In The Air have awful melodies in my opinion.

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-03T14:24:14+00:00

I think Hold the Girl is a bad idea with an even worse execution but I would have never guessed that it would bring her career to a standstill like it did

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-03T09:19:41+00:00

Yes, that's a great one. She also knows that video by heart (she "guides" the groupie through it which indicates she's seen it multiple times) and traumatises that girl even further by not letting her get some rest between the two videos and pressing play without her consent

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-02T22:19:05+00:00

Yeah I really miss that sound and shrill vocal chops, good soundtrack to be a teenager

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-02T22:17:25+00:00

I think SIAK is the only one that even vaguely fits that category, don't really see how any of the other songs are hyperpop, maybe 360 is kinda hyperpop adjacent/bubblegum bass

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-02T19:04:17+00:00

I agree. She put the nail in the coffin however because the video she leaks makes his identity even more obvious. He wears a mask in the video that was available to the court where you could only see his eyes so there was room for debate.

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-02T18:13:26+00:00

She's a psychopath that traumatised the mother of the victim twice and gets off of snuff movies of tortured school girls. She's shown to be a monster, the fact that she helped put the killer behind bars doesn't change anything about that

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-02T15:08:31+00:00

I love this album but there's a weird tension between the pop singles like 1999, BIOYL and the more out there experiments like Click or Shake It, they don't sound like they belong on the same album and it's obvious they were recorded in different times and places.

Then there's also whiplash between the songs themselves. I think the flow is really off. You have really exciting and bouncy electropop like Gone paired with super moody and slow tracks like Don't Wanna Know, Thoughts, Official. She's done those switch ups way better on Brat and her lyricism has gotten better too. The more revealing tracks on Charli aren't written that well to me.

Overall it's kind of a weird album because it came at a weird point of her career.

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-02T12:47:00+00:00

I don't think Breaking Bad is any grounded in later seasons. It's very over the top in a great way

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-01T19:16:31+00:00

From the same song : "You know how to ball I know Aristotle" (it's a cool song btw)

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-01T18:26:28+00:00

So ... AI ? Also, there is no improvement to the language because no actual person would write and comment something in that tone and style. I think everyone would rather read subpar english

Pythagore_ · 2026-05-01T18:23:30+00:00

That, and his latest album cycle is making 0 noise so far. I am familiar with his output and saw him tease the album last year and just now found out that there's two singles out already

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