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  Hear Charli XCX and Marina & the Diamonds Serve Up 'Just Desserts'

  May 1, 2013 – Hot on the heels of her solid debut LP True Romance, left-field popist Charli XCX is getting collab-happy (word to Kendrick). Last month we heard her team up with Danny Brown for the sharp-tongued "What I Like" remix, which accentuated all of the singer's more intimate assets as witnessed in the original song's video. …
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  Charli XCX, 'True Romance,' (Asylum)

  April 18, 2013 – The biggest (and accidentally self-perpetuated) misconception about Charli XCX is that she's just another moody Goth princess. True, the 20-year-old singer boasts unruly black hair and kohl-smeared eyes, but read her interviews and the bubbly, starry-eyed, Disney-loving tween shines through. …
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  Danny Brown Chats Up Charli XCX on Sharp-Tongued 'What I Like' Remix

  April 15, 2013 – "All along I wanted someone to vibe with," Charli XCX sorta-raps on "What I Like," her love-stoned new video selection. Now that someone thrillingly turns out to be Detroit rapper Danny Brown, who's in his fast-paced, higher-pitched form as he insists on taking the U.K. singer home. In truth, it's a relatively restrained outing from Brown, but unless you're some kind of DB-hating Philistine — and really, is there such a thing? …
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  20 Albums You Can Hear Now: the Flaming Lips, Fall Out Boy, Ghostface Killah, the Thermals

  April 10, 2013 – Normally, our weekly round-up of ready-to-stream albums tops out at 10, but there's so much stuff flying free on the Internet right now — full-lengths from the Flaming Lips, Fall Out Boy, Ghostface Killah, Shuggie Otis, and the Thermals included — that we decided to double-up and share 20 this time around. …
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  See Charli XCX Party at Home in 'What I Like' Video

  April 3, 2013 – On Monday we shared Charli XCX's excellent "What I Like" — an intimate yet glammed-up jam celebrating coupling that came as a breath of fresh air following a couple of artistic missteps involving guns and Chris Brown. …
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  Charli XCX Glams Up Coupling on Sweetly Flickering 'What I Like'

  April 1, 2013 – Charli XCX's striking talent has so far been matched only by her equally obvious ambition, and at times recently it has looked like the latter might outweigh the former. The U.K. singer followed her head-turning cloud-pop kiss-off "You (Ha Ha Ha)" with a post-Sandy Hook video so packed with guns she wound up apologizing. …
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  Charli XCX Apologizes for Glamorizing Guns in Latest 'You (Ha Ha Ha)' Video

  January 11, 2013 – Charli XCX debuted the grindhouse-inspired "just a few girls partying in a gun factory" video for her Gold Panda-sampling single "You (Ha Ha Ha)" yesterday (January 10), but today the Best New Artist-approved Brit apologized for the fun-loving firearm imagery.Since a music video explicitly focused on how sexily dangerous guns can be isn't the most sensitive message in the wake of December's tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School shoot …
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  Charli XCX Will Blow You Away in Gold Panda-Sampling 'You (Ha Ha Ha)' Video

  January 10, 2013 – Sample-tweaking cloud-rave beatmakers have a sense of humor, too. …
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  Hear Charli XCX Tackle Gold Panda on 'You (Ha Ha Ha)'

  December 18, 2012 – Fresh off dropping her tearjerker "Cloud Aura" video with Brooke Candy, Charli XCX is back with another new single titled "You (Ha Ha Ha)," which premiered last night on BBC Radio. …
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  Charli XCX and Brooke Candy Let Big Girls Cry in Collage-Like 'Cloud Aura' Video

  November 28, 2012 – Charli XCX's fascination with mixtapes, that hip-hop staple, steers her toward actual rapping on her messy but intriguing Super Ultra mixtape. The rapping is the worst part of new Super Ultra video subject "Cloud Aura," in the form of Internet via Los Angeles scenester Brooke Candy's bratty, nakedly trolling verse. …
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