I just don't find that helpful I prefer to watch movies or music videos. Because I'm writing a new record at the moment, I'm not listening to too much new music. I have my five artists that I've been listening to for, like, the last three months, and that's it. Have you discovered anything good while touring the States? That wasn't really in my brain when I was writing it, but I love Soft Cell, so yeah, I'll take that." It's not a sample, but there's a little bit of a Tainted Love vibe in the song Black Roses. I was sampling Drake and a lot of stuff, just being sort of in that zone." This was when I was making a lot of mixtapes with samples from movies like Kill Bill and Cruel Intentions. I just warmed to it straight away it sounded so luscious and ethereal. "I was talking with this producer, Paul White, and he sent me a load of beats, and one of them was So Far Away with that sample on it. Who could have predicted you would use a Todd Rundgren sample in So Far Away. That's such an amazing original track, so I decided that I wanted to go it and take it my own way." Musically, it's a Gold Panda sample, from the song You. By the end of it, when it's finally over, it's not a surprise you're over it 'cause you knew it was gonna happen. It's one of those things where you know you got into a bad relationship at the very beginning, but you just kind of roll with it. "Yeah, it's exactly that - it's a breakup song. The song You (Ha Ha Ha) is a real kiss-off to somebody. At the time, I was listening to a lot of dark pop, so I was inspired by a lot of the deep bass sounds. We wanted to do something very industrial and hard. I was working with Patrik Berger on that track - we actually wrote that on the same day I wrote I Love It. It reminds of Siouxsie And The Banshees' Kiss Them For Me. The song You're The One has a massive bass synth hook. But then there's '80s pop, things like Martika, T'Pau, stuff like that. Making the record, my main inspiration was a lot of French electro. But that's when I was younger, when I was so in awe of everything. I was also into Shampoo and stuff like that. When I was younger, I was really into Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - the greats. "I don't know if I draw from anybody from that time. Are there any artists from that era that you consciously draw from? There's a strong element of '90s pop in your music. That's what the record is about: those moments when you're in agony and along, and those times when you're in absolute ecstasy." But then you have those other moments when you're walking on a cloud, so that's the trade-off. After writing it and listening to the songs, I've come to the realization that you really can't have a romance that's true without having all the other awful moments, where you cry and you're thrashing about. The reason why I called the album True Romance is because all of the songs deal with romance and my experiences with love. "I do love that movie, but actually, I didn't directly name the record after it. The movie must have made a big impression on you. You titled the album True Romance, and you used excerpts from that film on Super Ultra. "I just don't find that helpful." © Rahav Segev/ZUMA Press/Corbis "I'm not listening to too much new music," says Charli XCX. If the record sounds like that, that's fine." So it is a messy record, but that's what life is all about, right? Especially during those years, things are messy. I wrote it when I was growing up, mainly during the years of 16, 17, 18. To me, it's a coming-of-age record for teenagers. It's very messy pop, with lots of wild sounds and songs that don't do what they're supposed to. One of the things I like about the record is how it's not slick. All the best songs are written in half an hour. I think the faster a song is written, the better it will be. I don't like to spend a lot of time on anything. My only rule for writing is, it has to be fast. I do like to write at night, so that's one thing I can say. I feel like my writing process is a bit of a mess - I don't have a place, I don't have a time. "Some people are very structured in how they write, but that's just not me. I know that I've walked down the street and thought about a song, and that's when I'll have to record something right there onto my phone. Other times it'll be a complete collaboration with a producer. I might sit down and play keyboards until something comes to me. Sometimes I'll get sent beats and I'll work on something. "I don't really have any kind of method for writing.
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