Charli XCX

It was a lot of keyboard playing, playing the keyboard and kind of, I had like this Yamaha keyboard and I was like making a lot of beats on there and then like record, like doing, like recording kind of separately all the different layers.

um so yeah it was kind of like writing lyrics and then um trying to figure out chords and very much like piano orientated and I think it all began because I had this boyfriend who turned out to be gay and honestly all the signs were so there he was like the coolest um

And not many 15-year-old boys are that cool.

And he was so cool.

He had great style, great taste.

He made me a mixtape of stuff that I had never heard before.

And I think that was kind of the moment where I was like, oh, he kind of opened my eyes to all of these different artists that I hadn't really been listening to that much before.

Like some kind of...

indie bands and then like stuff like Gang of Four and like, I don't know, like a lot of stuff that I had not really, that it hadn't been on my radar.

And at that point, I think I kind of had the hunger to try and write things myself a bit more.

Yeah.

Kind of.

It's interesting.

It's like there is this misconception that I was writing for people first.

I actually made a record first and it was really, really good.

And it was like critically acclaimed, but it sold about honestly like 11 copies.

It was like really like no one bought it, basically.

No one bought it.

No one really heard of it apart from like the five people who reviewed it.

Love them, you know.