Lorde and Charli XCX. Getty Pictures (2)
Being a woman is perhaps complicated, however Charli XCX and Lorde simply put any uncertainty about their relationship to relaxation.
Three weeks after Charli, 31, launched her sixth studio album, Brat, which featured a music known as “Woman, So Complicated” that appeared to undoubtedly be about Lorde, 27, the twosome teamed up for a remix of the music. (The tune is fittingly titled “The Woman, So Complicated Model With Lorde”.)
Within the candid duet, the singers admit to the difficult emotions they’ve had for each other prior to now earlier than burying the hatchet.
“I don’t know in case you like me, typically I feel you may hate me / Typically I feel I would hate you, possibly you simply wanna be me,” Charli sings on the opening verse of the each the OG model, which dropped June 7, and the remix, which was launched on Friday, June 21.
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“We discuss making music, however I don’t know if it’s sincere / Can’t inform in case you wanna see me falling over and failing,” Charli continues.
Lorde’s verse begins along with her confessing she “was speechless” when she “woke as much as [a] voice word” from Charli in regards to the music.
“You instructed me the way you’d been feeling, let’s work it out within the remix / You’d at all times say, ‘Let’s exit,’ however then I’d cancel final minute / I used to be so misplaced in my head, and scared to be in your footage,” Lorde sings.
Lorde goes on to elucidate how being “at conflict” along with her physique and making an attempt to “starve [herself] thinner” contributed to the partitions she put up in her friendship with Charli.
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“I used to be trapped within the hatred, and your life appeared so superior / I by no means thought for a second my voice was in your head,” she sings. “And it’s simply self-defense till you’re constructing a weapon / She believed my projection, and now I completely get it / Forgot that inside that icon there’s nonetheless a younger lady from Essex.”
Towards the top of the music, Lorde concludes that she’s “glad” she is aware of how Charli feels “trigger I experience for you, Charli.”
“You already know I experience for you, too,” Charli later sings.
Lorde and Charli XCX attend the MTV Video Music Awards on August 24, 2014 in Inglewood, California. Kevin Mazur/MTV1415/WireImage
Earlier than the remix confirmed that “Woman, So Complicated” is about Lorde, Charli performed coy in regards to the music’s inspiration throughout an look on the “Las Culturistas” podcast earlier this month.
“I haven’t fairly determined whether or not I’m revealing,” she stated. “Once I wrote it, I used to be like, ‘I’m revealing!’ However now, , the time is right here, I’m like, ‘Hmmm.’”
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The “360” singer additionally defined that the music is about way more than simply her and one different individual.
“I feel we stay on the planet of pop music proper now the place ladies are like, ‘I assist different ladies! I really like ladies! I’m a feminist.’ And that’s nice. Love that,” she started. “I don’t assume you turn into a foul feminist in case you possibly don’t see eye to eye with each single lady. That’s not the character of human beings. There’s a competitiveness between us. There’s envy. There’s camaraderie. There’s all of those completely different dynamics.”
Lorde beforehand gave Brat her stamp of approval by praising the album through her Instagram Story earlier this month.
“The one album I’ve ever presaved is out immediately … Charli simply cooked this one completely different,” she wrote. “A lot grit, grace & pores and skin within the sport. I communicate for all of us once I say it’s an honor to be moved, modified and gagged by her work. There’s NO ONE like this bitch.”
