The third preview of ‘Music. Fashion. Film’, Charli XCX’s new album, also lasts just 2 minutes. But its video, which for some reason is released at the same time and is already inseparable from the song, completes what the composition may be missing.
‘Wink Wink’, our Song of the Day today, is a rock recording, but lo-fi, quite Strokes or Stereo Total -which were their opening act for a reason-, which ends before you realize it. Although her lyrics have quite a bit of substance: Charli
At one point he says this “Wink Wink”: “my friend Rostam told me I dressed like a slut, so now I shop at APC,” in reference to the sober and demure French chain.
The video directed by Aidan Zamiri is the one that puts the spice in all of this, with Charli It is his sexiest and most colorful video in an era that – let’s remember – began very much in black and white.
Charli XCX has been in the news this week for accompanying Madonna twice at the ‘Confessions II’ presentation parties in Paris. He has also said that on his own album there is a collaboration that we won’t guess even with 1000 tries. For what it’s worth, the cover of the feature – that’s a saying – is a snapshot of John Cale, Martin Scorsese and Marc Jacobs.
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