Is her popularity fake? No number one hits nor is anyone outside of social media talking about her.
>>124463159She's kinda niche. Always been like that.
Her spotify listeners exploded since Brat. She was only popular in the uk and among terminally online people before that.
she is in her mid 30s, almost 40s. brat was what, her like 7nth album?the only reason she is a thing is because of coomers and gay guys
>>124463159She's just not mega famous like her popstar peers because third worlders don't get her music.She's a household name in the first world, which is all that should matter
Tbf if she's only getting world-famous 7 albums in I think she isn't what can be called an industry plant
>>124463159she has the 9th most streamed album from 2024, 4.5m Spotify followers, she obviously has a lot of fans
>>124463315>she's not mega famous in the US because she's not famous in the third worldflawless logic
>>124463342>she has the 9th most streamed album from 2024, 4.5m Spotify followers, she obviously has a lot of fansNot really. Brat only did well because of the meme marketing catching on and tiktok hype. Otherwise the remix album wouldn't have flopped so hard.
Girls and gays all over social media are in love with her, with their brat vinyl displayed right next to their new Taylor Swift and Chappell Roan records. Straight dudes are still stuck on this idea that they need to validate shit for it to be relevant and it's outdated af. We could go backwards a hundred years on gendered shit but you can't go back to an almost entirely male narrative now that we have the internet
>>124463445If they were so into it, why don't they buy her albums? Worthless fans desu. I'd be pissed if I was Charli.
>>124463418you're just making shit up, the remix album didn't flop at all (650m streams, half of Brat), and look at the graph she's still gaining fans regularly way after the "meme marketing"
>>124463458They didIt just doesn't have as wide a reach as people like Jelly Roll or Taylor or whoever else was topping charts at that time
>>124463458>buy albums>in 2024troll better
>>124463563Brat has 4x more streams than Jelly Roll's biggest album
>>124463565Tell that to Taylor fans, I guess.
>>124463553>the remix album didn't flopIt did though, it had no cultural impact at all. Not one song from the remix that is on the hot 100 right now
>>124463225>popular in the UK No she isn’t. We thought you Yanks loved her shit
>>124463260She’s 32 >>124463315Not in my household >>124463335I can only name Brat for how astroturfed it was
I worship her in my airpods
>>124463667>I can only name Brat for how astroturfed it wasNot the revival of the UK you were hoping for, eh?
>>124463695This is a cultural low point ngl
>>124463159Threw "Charli XCX" into Google Trends and for what it's worth she's been a big nothing for most of her career. Setting parameters to begin with 2012, the year of "I Love It", shows that people were more interested in Icona Pop than the woman who wrote the song. She first popped off around 2014 I'm guessing due to the inclusion of "Boom Clap" in the soundtrack of weepy teen drama The Fault In Our Stars back when xennials went to see movies. Interestingly after that was her much touted pivot to hyperpop, yet she again becomes fairly small-time until the summer of brat in 2024.She's wanted to be famous in her own right, not just as a songwriter for others, for a long time and you could kind of tell she was really mad about it at times like when Crash flopped. Thing is basically all the most successful songwriters now toil in obscurity writing for others and occasionally putting out music on their own, and this is something everyone who can afford a Focusrite can do now. But like many of her Millennial cohort of musicians she wants to be pop star in the 2000s mold which means extremely artificial glossy production, the magazine covers, the album rollout and all kinds of shit that only the most online and/or nostalgic give a shit about but which gets inflated by certain types of media (the social kind in particular). She's a fairly good songwriter and is pretty Internet-savvy, plus the lifespan of a pop star has been far extended beyond what it used to be, so it was going to happen for her eventually —but 15 minutes is 15 minutes, and they're up. She's already caught the actress disease.
>>124463159She was always a B-tier pop girlie who occasionally dropped into the C-tier and I'm still a bit surprised at her sudden embrace. brat is not really that good, most of her great songs have been written for others. She's the real deal compared to someone like Halsey, insofar as Charli was really playing underground raves and shit when she was really young, was the youngest of the first gen of Brit female myspace music makers, but that does not guarantee you global stardom. Who's still talking about Kate Nash? Marina is on the rocks. Lily Allen only gets mentioned bc she's married to an actor on some r*ddit show. Most U.K. stars are really just U.K. phenomena.
British and LGBTQ (redundant) always liked her. Brat boosted her relevance in the US significantly, her biggest moment before that was the Iggy Azelea song years ago
>>124463761Based researcher (<---- you can type that entire phrase out with only your left hand btw)
>>124463847Halsey can play a guitar at least and started off doing acoustic sets. How is that not the real deal compared to raves? At the very least, it's just a different scene. I don't see how it's lower.
>>124464019Halsey is the fakest fucking chick on the planet, I really wish she fell off after New Americana. I'd unironically go to a Clairo, Wet Leg, or even a DJ Dubbi set before going to a Halsey concert
>>124464144I'm not here to defend Halsey too much, don't get me wrong. She's a good singer though and I respect that she can play an instrument too.
i love Charli xcx so fucking much bros, it's unreal
>>124463910holy heck it's true
>>124464941But is her popularity genuine?
>>124463159I really thought it was just marketing shills but there are unironic grown """"men"""" with Brat merch at my work
>>124463159I thought /mu/ was supposed to be about circlejerking obscure post hardcore and black metal not crying about whether or not a pop star is actually a pop star...what the fuck is wrong with you people? If you people lived pre internet you'd be buying tabloids on Madonna in the grocery store lines I swear to god.
>>124467586Afraid so.
can you fucks stop spamming this butt ugly pajeet?
>>124468442you HAVE to go back.
>>124463159Cheney is brat guys
