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\u201cWell, this is the first listen of the album,” she continued, “and I think there couldn’t be a better place to hear it. I am so proud of this body of work, and I made all of the videos and the footage that are accompanying the songs with my friends, and that’s kind of like a big theme throughout the record: me and my friends\u2014you know, controversially.\u201d (Big laugh.) \u201cWe had so much fun making these little vignettes and films, and we were filming a lot throughout the recording process of Music, Fashion, Film<\/em>, which was mostly made in Paris, but a little bit kind of all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI would say this album is, in a way, all about how lucky I feel to be able to do what I do. I feel so indebted to art, to get to create things. I feel like it’s such a huge part of who I am, and without being able to make things, I kind of don’t know who I would be. That’s such a pleasure, but also there are torturous things about that too, the fact that I probably don’t know who I am without being able to make songs and write and create things. I just love this record, and I hope that you love it too, but also if you don’t, that’s totally fine. I hope you enjoy it, and I’m glad that you get to see it here at the Metrograph, and thank you to the Metrograph for having us, and yeah, love you.\u201d<\/p>\n Upon her exit, a fan yelled, \u201cThe Peoples\u2019 Princess!\u201d And if you listened really, really closely, you could hear your favorite twink screaming the same thing from their rooftop in Bushwick (complimentary).<\/p>\n It’s unclear at press time if the visual accompaniment that unfolded on the Metrograph screen will ever be released, but oh boy, does it and the album itself completely rip\u2014a complete departure from Charli\u2019s Brat<\/em> era. Ahead of most of the songs, there is a brief explanation of either what influenced it or how certain elements of it came together. Ahead of \u201cCamera,\u201d there\u2019s a blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it celebrity cameo that film freaks will completely devour. \u201cMagic Metal Montana\u201d had me wholesomemaxxing throughout the whole thing. And let\u2019s just say Cronenberg himself will be very satisfied with the visuals behind his feature. I am very, very here for this new era.<\/p>\n I caught up with some of the fans in the lobby after, all of whom were visibly ascending, including pop culture aficionado Alison Sivitz, who you may know as Bald Ann Dowd. She tweeted, upon seeing the tracklist, \u201ccharli cronenberg feature is so crazy she heard my distressed cries and came to the rescue.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think her inability to be embarrassed, or at least outwardly embarrassed, is what makes her so cool,\u201d Sivitz told me. \u201cIt’s so much an album about ego and the impermanence of everything and just saying fuck it and allowing yourself to mess up and be embarrassed, and that is speaking to me right now. There’s a song on there called \u2018I’m Afraid\u2019; it was my favorite one.\u201d<\/p>\n Between music, fashion, and film, which would Bald Ann Dowd fuck, marry, and kill? \u201cI’m going to marry film, obviously,\u201d she proclaimed. \u201cFilm is always there for me. I’m going to fuck music, and then I have to kill fashion, because I love to dress like Adam Sandler.\u201d And, well, I added, \u201cI literally had the same.\u201d<\/p>\n The fans\u2019 energy was genuinely so awesome. \u201cShe’s so\u2014can I say cunt? I can say that she’s really cunt, and I think that everything that we just saw should be released because it was so perfect and it was so artistic,\u201d Ella Paz from the East Village told me. Ella would marry film, fuck music, and kill fashion. \u201cI love fashion, but it can be dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.gq.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWell, this is the first listen of the album,” she continued, “and I think there couldn’t be a better place to hear it. 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