Charli XCX

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,

things like that when she was not only growing up but even when she was like living in our our town like I remember one day she she came home because she'd kind of had like a milkshake thrown over her and been told to go home and things like that and I've you know been very lucky that I haven't had to experience that probably because I'm a lot more passing than she is um but yeah it's it is interesting kind of being from both worlds and not particularly feeling like I belonged in either um

And it's also funny because I think doing what I do now, I definitely feel that sometimes when I Google myself, which I do, I sometimes see that people are sort of like mad that I don't really talk about this side of my life that much.

But the reason I don't is because no one asks me.

So now that you have kind of sat here and asked me, I'm more than willing and happy to talk about it.

I just feel very awkward about using like my culture as a USP.

Like I find it to be kind of a little bit.

And it's not something that I feel like I really want to do because there are parts of me that feel distant from both sides of my upbringing.

But when someone asks me about it, I'm so happy to talk about it.

Oh my gosh, 100%.