our joys and our choices – Liberation

Striking concerts, albums that strike without warning… Overview of the journalists’ favorites Culture of “Libération”.

Charli XCX: “brat” above “brat” below

I’ve been following Charli like rapping to Art of Noise. I never completely took my eyes off her afterwards, both fascinated and annoyed by her incessant back and forth between indecent audacity and compromise (sions). Obsessed, more than any other artist of her generation, with becoming the pop star of tomorrow, Charli public, but not too much so as to risk making him run away. And failed again and again every time she did everything it took to succeed (Crash, Sucker), and dazzled us, every time she did what she wanted (Pop 2How I’m Feeling Now). “An album for the label, an album for us”, summed up AG Cook, boss of PC Music and executive producer of all his records since Vroom Vroom in 2016. Also, I enjoyed it from the beginning of the promotion until the last seconds