Sorry everyone who for some reason gets annoyed when I post Charli XCX, it’s my blog, she’s great, you’ll have to deal!  I have spent the past day thinking about her music a fair bit and discussing it with people and…  you know what?  She’s special.  You don’t have to like her music but the truth is each album is different and you don’t see other pop stars deciding to collaborate with subversive and anti-commercial elements like PC Music.  Look, here is the thing, she is less famous than a lot of pop musicians, she’s just always been on the edge of fame, predicted to blow up for years.  I don’t know if that will ever happen but I can’t think of many pop stars who would find their name out there because of tracks like Fancy and I Love It and just decide to scrap that and do something no one else is doing.  Cyndi Lauper.  That’s who it always makes me think of, the girl the critics loved and had pegged for big things but was far more interested in doing what made her happy and what she thought was good than in just duplicating her last hit.  It’s what we often say we want an artist to be.  So that is what I have been thinking about with Charli XCX, that she is a musician that makes me excited to see what she does next.  There are really only a handful of artists at a time that I get truly excited to see what they will do.  Lots I like but I know what’s coming and I’m not waiting with bated breath.  I am excited to see what she has coming down the pipe and I was just listening to one of her albums so today I want to fuck Charli XCX.