Part of living up your twenty-something years begins at the front (or sometimes back) door of the club. We all know the scene. One step after the bouncer can feel like a dark abyss of laughs, beat drops and even more booze. Oh, and don't forget the dancing. There's always dancing. Once you experience it, you're usually hooked.
At just 24-years-old, Charli XCX learned all she needed to know about that lifestyle after just "two months of solid partying," so she retreated into the recording studio with a couple of good friends and worked off that very inspiration for her Lil Yachty-assisted party pleasure "After The Afterparty," the lead single from her currently-untitled fourth studio LP.
If you've followed Charli, you know that the video is an all-too-appropriate zombie homage to her favourite holiday.
Days after throwing a massive Halloween party in London, which may or may not have left her with a smashed iPhone, the pop star took to iHeartRadio HQ in New York City for a one-on-one interview to talk about the track, accompanying album and popping bottles of champagne to fuel the video shoot for the number in another installment of "In Her Words."
On Her New SOPHIE-produced Single "After The Afterparty": "It's really cheesy to say, but I guess doing what we do, the party never ends. That's basically the idea of the song. The best, biggest, longest party in the world. . . .I think the whole aim of 'After the Afterparty' was just to make the biggest, boldest, loudest pop song ever. I think that's just as valid as making the most emotional song ever, too."
On Working With UK Producer SOPHIE: "SOPHIE and I started working together of January 2015, and we made the Vroom Vroom EP together, and that was definitely us, and me especially, being more experimental and more club orientated. When I started making music, I was performing in warehouse parties in London. I was around DJs and around the club environment and realized I never made a record like that. Working with SOPHIE really allowed me to explore that realm and really go back where I came from. There's definitely a clubbier side to the record and then a more pop side. SOPHIE was the perfect person to put those two things together.
On Collaborating With Director Diane Martel: "Diane Martel is totally insane and that's how she works. She is very spontaneous with the way that she works. She's like a genius when it comes to pulling from pop culture and really understanding an artist. She works in a very hectic, scattered way, but I really enjoy that because she fully throws herself at a project, especially with the video. She completely understood me and she knows that I like the color pink and pink goop, so she was like 'Let's make everything pink and goopy and as pink as possible.' She takes very cartoon ideas and makes them into something extremely artistic, and that's what I really love about her and her whole world. . . .It was pretty full on, but we had a lot of champagne, so I made it through."
Photo: Rachel Kaplan for iHeartRadio
Original article by James Dinh at iHeartRadio