Charli XCX talks new album, calls it 'shouty and raw'

British pop singer Charli XCX is having quite the productive year. She released her debut full-length, True Romance, in April, hit the road for a tour and released a new single "SuperLove" off her next LP, which according to SPIN, she says is "90 percent done."

As the article notes, the 21 year old has also been hard at work writing for other artists and working on side projects.

"I took five years to make True Romance — some of the songs have been in my life since I was 15 — so I wanted to do my second record really fast," she told SPIN. "It's very shouty and raw, and that's why I'm doing it quickly. For me, those sort of songs feel like a moment — they don't feel they've been thought through, they feel like someone's just gone and been like 'RAAAAA!' [she pumps her fists], and it's come out amazing. So that's kind of the way I'm doing it. ...I feel like everyone's expecting me to make a 'synth-pop' record. I hate that term so much, I can't think of anything worse. The music I'm making now is so much more live - it's inspired by the Ramones, the Hives, Weezer..."

She told them that it will still be a pop record, despite the rock influences, and she also mentioned "yé-yé pop from the '60s — Brigitte Bardoit, France Gall, Sylvie Vartan — as well as new-wave bands like Bow Wow Wow and the Waitresses" as other influences on the upcoming effort. She worked primarily with Patrik Berger (Robyn, Lana del Rey) to produce the album.

"As I said, I wanted to make this record fast: not thought-about, everything really spontaneous" she reiterated. "And that's how me and Patrik work best together: we just go to his place and we'll write till like 5 a.m. and get up and 10 and do it again. We don't think — it's like the first thing that comes out of my mouth is the cut on the record. I always think that if it's there in the first half hour it's probably really good, and if it's not you should move on."

We'll update you with more information on the forthcoming album as it becomes available. For now, check out the video for "SuperLove," and leave us your comments below!

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