Charli XCX - Pop Princess (2009)

Following the cancellation of her album in 2008, Charli XCX continued to write and record her songs, publishing the odd one on her MySpace page, but mostly just for herself. In April 2009 she supported Peaches on her Ether 09 show at the Royal Festival Hall, alongside London drag-scene queen Jonny Woo, wearing the outfit on the cover of this album. She also released her second single, the double A-side 'Emelline'/'Art Bitch', on her own Orgy Music label, and she spent the rest of the year amassing a collection of songs which you can now hear on this post, which she could easily have released as an album in 2009. Obviously these are early examples of her songwriting, and so titles such as 'I Wanna Be Darth Vader' and 'Dinosaur Sex!' are in evidence, but some of these songs pave the way for how she her sound would change over the next couple of years.    

Track listing

01 Art Bitch
02 Emeline
03 I Wanna Be Darth Vader
04 Pop Princess
05 Too Cool
06 Another Romantic Situation (feat. Daisy Geggus) 
07 Beach Hut In Hawaii
08 Dinosaur Sex!
09 Do It Well
10 Falling In Love Again
11 Fearless
12 I Like You
13 Jungle Time
14 Photography
15 Pirates