Charli XCX

And then my dad, he is adopted and his adoptive family is Scottish.

So, you know, we say Scottish, but he grew up kind of like near where they raised me.

And yeah, they met in a club on New Year's Eve.

How is it that I haven't been back for a minute?

Yeah, totally.

I mean, it's funny.

It's like I grew up, yeah, in Essex and I went to school in a town called Bishop's Dorkford.

And it was like a lot of white kids, you know, predominantly.

And then on the weekends, I would go and kind of visit my mom's side of the family who lived like in Crawley.

And that was a very much more like...

traditionally Indian setup, like big family gatherings, so much food, Bollywood, playing in the background, speaking Gujarati, except I never really learned much apart from Jolly Jolly, which means quick, quick.

That's like all I know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then, you know, like sometimes like doing prayer and like sometimes going to mosque and things like that.

And then like, yeah, not really having any of that kind of experience when I was like going to school or during the weeks really.

And it was kind of hard to really feel that I fit into either world, I suppose, because most of my classmates sort of touch point for an Indian person was a poo on The Simpsons, you know?

Right.

So it was like, that was what an Indian person was, you know?

Um, so, uh, it was very like, it was a bit jarring, but also it's, it, it was also, I must say, like, it was like, okay, you know, it was, it was like, my mom had to struggle a lot more with dealing with kind of, um, racism and, uh,