Charli XCX just let fans know that a new single with Troye Sivan is on the way.
The singer took to social media teasing the new track with he longtime collaborator without a caption. Fans also found out that the two are potentially planning a joint tour together with limited dates.
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Charli XCX and Troye Sivan had their smash hit “1999” as followed by 2099 as their last collabs together.
For his hit recent single “Rush,” pop prince Troye Sivan was nominated for two awards at the recent 2024 Grammys, one for Best Pop Dance Recording and the other for Best Music Video. These were his first Grammy nominations in his career thus far.
Unfortunately, “Rush” lost Best Pop Dance Recording to Kylie Minogue’s “Padam Padam” and Best Music Video to The Beatles’ “I’m Only Sleeping.”
In a conversation with Vogue Singapore, Charli recently says she is making a kind of music that is unlike she’s ever created for her upcoming album.
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“I came from the clubs,” Charli says wistfully, during our Zoom chat. “When I first started making music, I was playing at illegal warehouse raves in Hackney in London. That’s home to me.”
The singer described the time growing up in club culture as ‘pure electricity.’
“I was never somebody who went to traditional clubs where you’d have to put your name on the list and there would be a line-up of DJs playing. I always found myself at warehouse parties—those really underground, last-minute, secret-location kind of events,” she reminisces.
The star also admitted she was playing at illegal warehouse raves in Hackney when she first started making music.
The “Speed Drive” musician opened up about her current album in the works saying, “Lyrically, this is quite a different record for me. I’ve written the songs almost in the way I would write texts to my friends or based on things I would say to them on FaceTime. We talk a lot about pop culture and music and it’s been really fun to gossip about the songs we go. They’ll ask ‘Oh, who is this one about? Is this about a friend? Is it about an ex?’ It has fuelled this fun, gossipy narrative which permeates the album.”
But the singer also opened up about her friend and late trans producer, Sophie, saying that she has found ways to use her voice in ways that not only matter to her, but the majority of her fanbase.
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“I truly feel like I wouldn’t have a career without the LGBTQ+ community,” she says. “They have made so much possible for me and supported me when everyone else had given up. It feels right for me to try my best to amplify that community wherever possible. It feels very natural to me.”
