Charli XCX has confirmed that the ‘Girl, so confusing’ remix was Lorde‘s idea – find out how it come to be below.
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Lorde singer recently featured on the remix of ‘Girl, so confusing’, which originally appeared on Charli XCX’s latest album ‘Brat‘. Charli had previously spoken of how Lorde served as partial inspiration for the track, including feeling jealous over her ‘Royals’ success.
A few weeks after the release of ‘Brat’, Charli unveiled a new version of the track, this time featuring its subject matter: Lorde. Now, however, Charli has revealed to Billboard that the remix was all Lorde’s idea.
Charli XCX and Lorde at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. (Photo by MTV/MTV1415/Getty Images for MTV)
She explained: “I had to go through the process of telling her that this song is about her and her being OK with that first. I was trying to meet up with her for almost a year, and we kept having this weird, like, we were [going to], then we wouldn’t. It spoke to the narrative of the song itself. In the end, it didn’t work out.”
Charli continued: “Then the day before the record came out, I left her a voice note. [Lorde] replied straight away and was like, ‘Oh, my God, I had no idea you felt this way. I’m so sorry.’ And then was like, ‘You know, maybe I should be on a version of the song.’ I didn’t even ask her. She brought it up.”
“So much of this rollout was planned, but sometimes it was not,” she concluded. “Lorde’s remix of ‘Girl, so confusing’ is a perfect example. That wasn’t planned. It took three days total.”
In a four-star review of ‘Brat’, NME wrote: “On the self-described “club record”, XCX offers pure party girl hedonism. Percolating beats, brash synths, left-field production and vocal lines that flit between bratty quips or honest one-liners.”
“With ‘Brat’, XCX demonstrates that going her own way will always sound pretty good,” it added.
Upon its release in June, Lorde expressed her admiration for ‘Brat’ and Charli as an artist: “I speak for all of us when I say it’s an honour to be moved, changed and gagged by her work. There is NO ONE like this bitch. Brava and welcome Brat.”
Meanwhile, Lorde is teasing her fourth album. In an update on her Instagram, she wrote: “If the tools do not exist you are spiritually obliged to create them”, along with variations on the word ‘L4’.
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