The Internet History of Charli XCX

Candice Lim is joined by Rolling Stone writer CT
Jones and Switched on Pop producer Reanna
Cruz to hold a retrospective on the internet history of Charli
XCX, the founder of brat summer and a decades-long digital icon.
They’re going all the way back to 2012, when a girl from Essex
named Charlotte Aitchison hit the main stage with “I Love It.”
They’ll dissect their first Charli XCX memories, the 2016
song that changed Charli’s entire internet career, and how her
pandemic album-documentary led up to this moment, asking:
Was it Charli’s Angels or Charli’s destiny? This podcast is
produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim.
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