"Breaking the Rules" singer Charli XCX fancies herself an accomplished songwriter and performer -- complaining that the media propagates the idea that female pop singers aren't really artists. During a recent interview, Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" collaborator even went so far as to insist that she needs to be involved in the writing of all of her songs, because she in "not a puppet", but it seems pretty obvious by Chuck's decision to perform "Doing It" at the NME Awards in barely-there lingerie that she is using her sex to sell records -- not her songcraft.
To hear Charli XCX tell it female pop stars are unfairly stigmatized as being nothing more than a pretty face with an okay voice singing a song some talented troll probably wrote for them, but she hasn't the faintest clue why (via Shazam):
"I just feel that like there is this perception of women in pop music...most people think that none of us write our own songs.
"I don't why that is...I think it is just like a stigma that is there."
During a recent interview with Official Charts, Ms. XCX took things a step further and seemed to suggest that anyone who didn't write all their own songs was really little more than the pawns of their label and mangers:
"I'm not just someone who will take a song and sing it, I don't like it when people put words in my mouth.
"It's very important to me to be writing as well because I'm a musician, I'm not just a puppet."
With that kind of self-hype and promotion, you might expect that high-minded Charli XCX would rely on the strength of her work alone to sale her records the way Sia or Lorde has done, instead of trading on her sex to gain popularity the way some of those more produced acts have.
Interestingly enough, however, Charli XCX didn't merely show of her vocal talents at the recent NME Awards in London; the 22-year-old artist first walked the opening red carpet in a lingerie "inspired" dress only to perform in even skimpier négligée for her "Doing It" performance later in the evening.
Now, do you think Joni Mitchell would have ever performed 'Blue' in her underwear, or that anyone would have ever even thought that she needed to something like that?
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