Charli XCX was at the Warner Music party yesterday and I think she looked lovely.  It was a pretty simple block top and pants but I liked it.  She looked good.  I like her a lot.  Now, I am sure someone is aware Charli is with Atlantic but not aware of how the music industry works and wonders why she was at the Warners Music Party.   Welcome to why Pop music isn’t very inventive and why even good artists are herded into a type.  Atlantic Records, one of the legendary labels in all of music is owned by Atlantic Records Group, which owns dozens of labels, many of which were once independent.  Atlantic Records Group is owned by Warner Music Group, which owns thousands of labels, many of which used to be independent of each other.  The record industry, is by and large, owned part and parcel by a small handful of companies.  The result isn’t just creative stifling but a lack of innovation, a slowness to adapt, and a result that means basically musicians make very little money from records anymore, that all goes to the label, and instead make all their money touring.  Which is why I can’t wait for the dinosaurs that are the monolith record companies to finally die.  It won’t really hurt the artists but it might free them.  I know I have low key bitched a lot about labels in recent Charli posts, and you know, part of that is just that I grew up as a punk kid so I have a natural hatred of them anyway, but you know, I’m kind of bitter about the delays of Charli’s album.  Because they of course want her to just keep making the same song.  Something she has always refused to do and according to rumors has gotten her a lot of grief.  In that like, when she wanted to release a free mix tape they stuck their grubby little fingers in that even to really sour it all.  Who knows, I may not like the new album but I do know it will take her in a new direction because that is basically what she does.  I’d like the chance to hear it and to be honest I don’t care what the Warner Monolith thinks of it. Anyway, on top of my anger at her label, she looked great.  Her I adore.  Today I want to fuck Charli XCX.