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<h1>Charli XCX - Sucker Review</h1>
Charli XCX's third bite of the cherry may not be the subversive perfect work of art the buildup would have you accept – yet its tricky to deny that she's on to something
"Dear God," sings Charlotte Aitchison, with a note of disturbance in her voice, as Sucker's opening title track gets into rigging, "do you get me now?" You can't generally accuse her. Aitchison is 22, and Sucker is her third collection as Charli XCX. Her initial, 14, turned out – or rather, was doled out at gigs – almost seven years back. Her second, 2013's True Romance, was a despicable business flop: it arrived at No 85, and everything except one of its six singles neglected to make the diagrams whatsoever. You don't have to be a specialist in the ruses of the latterday music industry to understand that ought to have been the end of Charli XCX. Nowadays, should get one shot at being a standard pop star; on the off chance that you miss the target, you can clear your work area and begin pondering qualification for jobseeker's recompense.
But, here we are, confronted with Charli XCX's second demonstration in our current reality where there should be second acts. It would be decent to believe that her record organization remain faithful to her as an aftereffect of True Romance's sparkling discriminating notices, however the days are long gone when a real name may drive forward with a low-offering pop craftsman simply on the grounds that a couple of rock hacks think her Todd Rundgren and Gold Panda examples are shrewd.
The truth is that True Romance's business disappointment would have been the end of Charli XCX, had it not been for I Love It, the straight splendid Icona Pop single that Aitchison co-composed and showed up on. It sold 2m duplicates in the US in 2012; better still, it arrived at No 1 in the UK after a year, improving True Romance's synchronous inability to set the outlines land.
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