Charli XCX

Speaking in a new interview with the BBC, the singer was asked how she felt about the acclaim of her last two projects – her Mercury Prize nominated fourth ...

“Those smaller spaces were really important to me,” she says of the venues she played earlier in her career. “It felt interesting to me to use moments of that process to make this final album as somebody who has really navigated the major label record system since I was 16 in completely on my own terms.” She continued: “So to achieve these things feels really special and unique, and it’s something I feel like I’ve achieved with my fans. The singer joked that maybe she would have to “pursue soup more seriously”, a reference to her lockdown hobby, which coincided with the six-week process of making How I’m Feeling Now. “It’s still a shock to me – and it’s quite stressful because I’m like, ‘Oh crap, what do I do now?” she said. "To achieve these things feels really special and unique, and it's something I feel like I've achieved with my fans"