"Within seconds of it streaming, fans had deduced that the song Girl, So Confusing was probably about Lorde: all it took was the line people say we're alike / They say we've got the same hair, riffing on a 2014 video where Charli and an interviewer did a bit about people confusing the two. In the song, Charli laid bare her anxieties about their relationship and admitted: Sometimes I think you might hate me."
"Exactly two weeks later came the Girl, So Confusing Featuring Lorde remix, brokered by the pair over text and voice note in the days after Brat came out. On Lorde's verse, she owned up to ghosting on dinner dates with Charli and exposed the self-hate, projection and industry-fuelled sense of pop-girl-on-pop-girl rivalry that had made her shy away from the friendship."
Charli xcx released Brat on 7 June 2024 and immediately provoked fan attention by referencing Lorde in 'Girl, So Confusing', echoing a 2014 bit about people confusing the two. Charli revealed anxieties about their relationship and feared Lorde might hate her. Two weeks later Lorde contributed a verse to the remix, admitting to ghosting dinner dates and confessing self-hate, projection and industry-fuelled rivalry that made her avoid the friendship. The exchange showcased fast, candid pop celebrity meta-narrative. Separately, 'Sympathy Is a Knife' captures Charli's insecurity around Taylor Swift during Swift's brief relationship with Matty Healy.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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