August 11th, 2023
Charli XCX’s Futurism From The Past Reissued five years later, ‘Pop 2’ plays like a celebration of the pop future that never happenedBy: Malachi Lui
What is pop music? A never-ending cycle of repackaging the past? Or a portal to infinite possibilities? High art, or insipid, assembly-line bubblegum confections? What if it’s all of the above?Charli XCX’s 2017 mixtape Pop 2 decides that pop music can be anything and everything—or at least, that’s the meaning that many have assigned to it. After her prospective third studio album proved too much a logistical hurdle to release (only for all the tracks to leak), within... Read More
