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* CreatorCouple: Engaged to George Daniel, drummer for Music/The1975.
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* WorkingTitle: ** ''CRASH'' was originally going to be called ''Sorry If I Hurt You'', but the word "crash" came to her one day, and after passing it around, she decided to make it the final title, as well as write a TitleTrack based on it. A song titled "Sorry If I Hurt You" would then feature on the album's deluxe edition.

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* WorkingTitle: ** ''CRASH'' was originally going to be called ''Sorry If I Hurt You'', but the word "crash" came to her one day, and after passing it around, she decided to make it the final title, as well as write a TitleTrack based on it. A song titled "Sorry If I Hurt You" would then feature on the album's deluxe edition.

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** ''CRASH'' was originally going to be called ''Sorry If I Hurt You'', but the word "crash" came to her one day, and after passing it around, she decided to make it the final title, as well as write a TitleTrack based on it. A song titled "Sorry If I Hurt You" would then feature on the album's deluxe edition.


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* WorkingTitle: ** ''CRASH'' was originally going to be called ''Sorry If I Hurt You'', but the word "crash" came to her one day, and after passing it around, she decided to make it the final title, as well as write a TitleTrack based on it. A song titled "Sorry If I Hurt You" would then feature on the album's deluxe edition.
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* ApprovalOfGod: The song "Grins" off of ''True Romance'' was initially an [[{{Instrumentals}} instrumental]] track from 2011 by pop producer [=BloodPop=] (formerly known as Blood Diamonds) that Charli used and sang over and uploaded to [=SoundCloud=] without his permission. However, he was cool with it and let her put the song on the album.

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* ApprovalOfGod: The song "Grins" off of ''True Romance'' was initially an [[{{Instrumentals}} instrumental]] track from 2011 by pop producer [=BloodPop=] (formerly known as Blood Diamonds) that Charli used and sang over and uploaded to [=SoundCloud=] without his permission. However, he was cool with it and let her put the song on the album.
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* ApprovalOfGod: The song "Grins" off of ''True Romance'' was initially an [[{{Instrumentals}} instrumental]] track by pop producer [=BloodPop=] (formerly known as Blood Diamonds) that Charli used and sang over and uploaded to [=SoundCloud=] without his permission. However, he was cool with it.

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* ApprovalOfGod: The song "Grins" off of ''True Romance'' was initially an [[{{Instrumentals}} instrumental]] track from 2011 by pop producer [=BloodPop=] (formerly known as Blood Diamonds) that Charli used and sang over and uploaded to [=SoundCloud=] without his permission. However, he was cool with it. it and let her put the song on the album.
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* ApprovalOfGod: The song "Grins" off of ''True Romance'' was initially an [[{{Instrumentals}} instrumental]] track by pop producer [=BloodPop=] (formerly known as Blood Diamonds) that Charli used and sang over and uploaded to [=SoundCloud=] without his permission. However, he was cool with it.
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** She also doesn't think too highly of first album, 14, recorded in 2006 when she was just, well, fourteen years old and released in 2008. She has called it "fucking terrible Myspace music" and "gimmicky dance tracks", and it has never gotten a rerelease.

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** She also doesn't think too highly of her first album, 14, recorded in 2006 when she was just, well, fourteen years old and released in 2008. She has called it "fucking terrible Myspace music" and "gimmicky dance tracks", and it has never gotten a rerelease.
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** She regards ''Sucker'' as a {{sellout}} album and said that parts of it [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/08/charli-xcx-every-single-thing-is-work-for-me-everything-is-music-interview "feel fake"]]. [[https://www.vogue.com/article/charli-xcx-interview-charli-album?verso=true She would later specify]] that she's more "love-hate" about it and still likes some tracks from it, but she greatly prefers the more experimental direction of her music since (developed in part as a response to the album), and she singles out "Break the Rules" as a song she never particularly liked.

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** She regards ''Sucker'' as a {{sellout}} has described her album and said Sucker as having "felt fake" to her, saying that parts it was written less out of it [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/08/charli-xcx-every-single-thing-is-work-for-me-everything-is-music-interview "feel fake"]]. [[https://www.vogue.com/article/charli-xcx-interview-charli-album?verso=true She would later specify]] that she's artistic integrity and more "love-hate" about it and still likes some tracks from it, but out of a desire to build on the chart success she greatly prefers the had with "Fancy", her breakthrough collaboration with Iggy Azalea. Her subsequent work has been far more experimental direction of her music since (developed in part as a response to the album), and she singles out "Break the Rules" as a song she never particularly liked.experimental, focused less on albums than on mixtapes.



** She doesn't like ''14'', the album she recorded as a teenager, and has referred to it as "fucking terrible Myspace music".

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** She also doesn't like ''14'', the album she think too highly of first album, 14, recorded as a teenager, in 2006 when she was just, well, fourteen years old and released in 2008. She has referred to called it as "fucking terrible Myspace music".music" and "gimmicky dance tracks", and it has never gotten a rerelease.
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** "Girls Night Out" was originally going to include a section sampling Music/{{Aqua}}'s "Barbie Girl" (with a refrain of "Come on Charli, let's go party"), which ended up not being included in the official version.

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** She doesn't like ''14'', the album she recorded as a teenager, and has referred to it as "fucking terrible Myspace music".



* OldShame: She doesn't like ''14'', the album she recorded as a teenager, and has referred to it as "fucking terrible Myspace music".

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* BlackSheepHit: "Boom Clap" is a upbeat, energetic [[SillyLoveSongs silly love song]] that you could safely play on any radio station or event with kids involved. It stands in stark contrast to her usual [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]], raunchy, [[ClusterFBomb profane]], or avant pop-inspired output.

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* AbsurdlyShortProductionTime: ''how i'm feeling now'' was produced front-to-back in the span of six weeks following the start of UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic-induced lockdowns, and aside from "Party 4 U" (whose initial demo came from as early as 2017), all material was devised in that short period. As a point of personal reference, ''Charli'' had only been released 8 months prior, and that had been in the works for at least a year (not even counting the scrapped ''XCX World'' project).
* BlackSheepHit: "Boom Clap" is a an upbeat, energetic [[SillyLoveSongs silly love song]] that you could safely play on any radio station or event with kids involved. It stands in stark contrast to her usual [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]], raunchy, [[ClusterFBomb profane]], or avant pop-inspired output.
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** ''CRASH'' was originally going to be called ''Sorry If I Hurt You'', but the onomatopoeia came to her one day, and after passing it around decided to make it the final title, as well as writing a TitleTrack based on it.

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** ''CRASH'' was originally going to be called ''Sorry If I Hurt You'', but the onomatopoeia word "crash" came to her one day, and after passing it around around, she decided to make it the final title, as well as writing write a TitleTrack based on it.it. A song titled "Sorry If I Hurt You" would then feature on the album's deluxe edition.
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* OneHitWonder: If we're counting solo performance, Charli's highest-charting mainstream radio hit was "Boom Clap", peaking at #8 of Billboard's Hot 100. She did, however, also have high-profile features in Music/IggyAzalea's "Fancy" (peaking at #1) and Music/IconaPop's "I Love It" (at #7).

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* MissingEpisode: [[http://xcx-world.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Unreleased_songs She has a quite a lot of unreleased material]], mostly only known through live performances and [[ContentLeak online leaks of demos]].

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* InMemoriam: ''Crash'' was dedicated to Charli's frequent collaborator Music/{{Sophie}}, who passed away a year before the album's release.
* MissingEpisode: [[http://xcx-world.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Unreleased_songs She has a quite a lot of unreleased material]], mostly only known through live performances and [[ContentLeak online leaks of demos]].demos]], the most famous being her scrapped third album unofficially named ''XCX World''.
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** ''CRASH'' was originally going to be called ''Sorry If I Hurt You'', but the onomatopoeia came to her one day, and after passing it around decided to make it the final title, as well as writing a TitleTrack based on it.
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* FanNickname: Some fans will extend the "XCX" to [[VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX Xenoblade Chronicles X.]]
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** She regards ''Sucker'' as a {{sellout}} album and said that parts of it [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/08/charli-xcx-every-single-thing-is-work-for-me-everything-is-music-interview "feel fake"]]. [[https://www.vogue.com/article/charli-xcx-interview-charli-album?verso=true She would later specify]] that she's more "love-hate" about it and still likes some tracks from it, but she greatly prefers the more experimental direction of her music since, developed in part as a response to the album.

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** She regards ''Sucker'' as a {{sellout}} album and said that parts of it [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/08/charli-xcx-every-single-thing-is-work-for-me-everything-is-music-interview "feel fake"]]. [[https://www.vogue.com/article/charli-xcx-interview-charli-album?verso=true She would later specify]] that she's more "love-hate" about it and still likes some tracks from it, but she greatly prefers the more experimental direction of her music since, developed since (developed in part as a response to the album.album), and she singles out "Break the Rules" as a song she never particularly liked.
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** A separate instance of this occurred regarding her collaboration with Music/LilPeep, "Let U Down", which was originally slated to be on ''Pop 2'' but was cut at the last minute following [[AuthorExistenceFailure his passing]]. The song ended up being quietly uploaded by Tangerine Recordings onto their website in early 2019 -- when [[https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmusic/comments/f3s092/pop_2_outtake_let_u_down_feat_lil_peep/ it was discovered by Redditors a year later]], it was suddenly taken down, suggesting that it was an accident.

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** A separate instance of this occurred regarding her collaboration with Music/LilPeep, "Let U Down", which was originally slated to be on ''Pop 2'' but was cut at the last minute following [[AuthorExistenceFailure his passing]].passing. The song ended up being quietly uploaded by Tangerine Recordings onto their website in early 2019 -- when [[https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmusic/comments/f3s092/pop_2_outtake_let_u_down_feat_lil_peep/ it was discovered by Redditors a year later]], it was suddenly taken down, suggesting that it was an accident.



** ''Pop 2'' [[https://www.thefader.com/2017/12/15/charli-xcx-a-g-cook-pop-2-interview was originally planned to have a song featuring]] Music/LilPeep titled "Let U Down", but was quietly cut out of respect [[AuthorExistenceFailure following his death just a month before the mixtape's release]].

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** ''Pop 2'' [[https://www.thefader.com/2017/12/15/charli-xcx-a-g-cook-pop-2-interview was originally planned to have a song featuring]] Music/LilPeep titled "Let U Down", but was quietly cut out of respect [[AuthorExistenceFailure following his death just a month before the mixtape's release]].release.

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* CreatorBacklash: She regards ''Sucker'' as a {{sellout}} album and said that parts of it [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/08/charli-xcx-every-single-thing-is-work-for-me-everything-is-music-interview "feel fake"]]. [[https://www.vogue.com/article/charli-xcx-interview-charli-album?verso=true She would later specify]] that she's more "love-hate" about it and still likes some tracks from it, but she greatly prefers the more experimental direction of her music since, developed in part as a response to the album.

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She regards ''Sucker'' as a {{sellout}} album and said that parts of it [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/08/charli-xcx-every-single-thing-is-work-for-me-everything-is-music-interview "feel fake"]]. [[https://www.vogue.com/article/charli-xcx-interview-charli-album?verso=true She would later specify]] that she's more "love-hate" about it and still likes some tracks from it, but she greatly prefers the more experimental direction of her music since, developed in part as a response to the album.album.
** While she didn't originally come up with the term, she also has a tenuous relationship with her being identified as a "{{hyperpop}}" artist. This isn't a comment based on the actual music per se, but rather [[https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1424415556724088837 her broadly disliking the label]] -- in her words, she does not "[[https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1286008932377350144 identify with music genres]]".
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** A separate instance of this occurred regarding her collaboration with Music/LilPeep, "Let U Down", which was originally slated to be on ''Pop 2'' but was cut at the last minute following [[AuthorExistenceFailure his passing]]. The song ended up being quietly uploaded by Tangerine Recordings's website in early 2019 -- when [[https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmusic/comments/f3s092/pop_2_outtake_let_u_down_feat_lil_peep/ it was discovered by Redditors a year later]], it was suddenly taken down, suggesting that it was an accident.

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** A separate instance of this occurred regarding her collaboration with Music/LilPeep, "Let U Down", which was originally slated to be on ''Pop 2'' but was cut at the last minute following [[AuthorExistenceFailure his passing]]. The song ended up being quietly uploaded by Tangerine Recordings's Recordings onto their website in early 2019 -- when [[https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmusic/comments/f3s092/pop_2_outtake_let_u_down_feat_lil_peep/ it was discovered by Redditors a year later]], it was suddenly taken down, suggesting that it was an accident.

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* ContentLeak: Suffered many back-to-back instances of this circa late 2017 after her Google Drive account was hacked, containing over ''200'' unreleased tracks, ranging from unmastered demos to release-ready tracks. It's widely believed that this is what ended up [[DevelopmentHell delaying her third studio album]], forcing it to be rebooted in 2019 with ''Charli''.

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Suffered many back-to-back instances of this circa late 2017 after her Google Drive account was hacked, containing over ''200'' unreleased tracks, ranging from unmastered demos to release-ready tracks. It's widely believed that this is what ended up [[DevelopmentHell delaying her third studio album]], forcing it to be rebooted in 2019 with ''Charli''.''Charli''.
** A separate instance of this occurred regarding her collaboration with Music/LilPeep, "Let U Down", which was originally slated to be on ''Pop 2'' but was cut at the last minute following [[AuthorExistenceFailure his passing]]. The song ended up being quietly uploaded by Tangerine Recordings's website in early 2019 -- when [[https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmusic/comments/f3s092/pop_2_outtake_let_u_down_feat_lil_peep/ it was discovered by Redditors a year later]], it was suddenly taken down, suggesting that it was an accident.


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** ''Pop 2'' [[https://www.thefader.com/2017/12/15/charli-xcx-a-g-cook-pop-2-interview was originally planned to have a song featuring]] Music/LilPeep titled "Let U Down", but was quietly cut out of respect [[AuthorExistenceFailure following his death just a month before the mixtape's release]].

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* NewbieBoom: Charli's collaborations with Music/PCMusic-related artists, from ''Vroom Vroom'' with Music/{{Sophie}}, granted her a massive surge in popularity among indie/alternative pop and electronic circles. With each subsequent project, she's attracted more and more critical attention as being a [[TropeCodifier codifier]] of the nascent "hyperpop" subgenre alongside names like PC Music, Music/HundredGecs, and Music/DorianElectra.

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** A smaller example came in the form of "Unlock It", a track from the ''Pop 2'' mixtape in late 2017, which went viral out of nowhere on [=TikTok=] in early 2021. This prompted the creation of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcb2R-WpxVg a visualizer]] almost 4 years after the song's release, and [[https://twitter.com/FckyeahCharli/status/1374786729933221892 Charli herself decided to join in on the fun.]]
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** The entirety of Charli's originally-planned third studio album, [[FanNickname recognized by fans as]] ''[[FanNickname XCX World]]'', which was recorded and developed from between 2014-2017 and eventually set for a late 2017 release. Unfortunately, due to her infamous ContentLeak and subsequent replacement with ''Charli'', it's unlikely we'll be seeing a legitimate release of it or the songs that were likely planned for it any time soon.

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** The entirety of Charli's originally-planned third studio album, [[FanNickname recognized by fans as]] ''[[FanNickname XCX World]]'', World]]''[[note]]Contrary to popular belief, while visual assets were leaked, the album had yet to be given a final name, and the ''XCX World'' title came entirely from fans[[/note]], which was recorded and developed from between 2014-2017 and eventually set for a late 2017 release. Unfortunately, due to her infamous ContentLeak and subsequent replacement with ''Charli'', it's unlikely we'll be seeing a legitimate release of it or the songs that were likely planned for it any time soon.
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* NewbieBoom: Charli's collaborations with Music/PCMusic-related artists, from ''Vroom Vroom'' with Music/{{Sophie}}, granted her a massive surge in popularity among indie/alternative pop and electronic circles.

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* NewbieBoom: Charli's collaborations with Music/PCMusic-related artists, from ''Vroom Vroom'' with Music/{{Sophie}}, granted her a massive surge in popularity among indie/alternative pop and electronic circles. With each subsequent project, she's attracted more and more critical attention as being a [[TropeCodifier codifier]] of the nascent "hyperpop" subgenre alongside names like PC Music, Music/HundredGecs, and Music/DorianElectra.
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* NoBudget: We don't have exact budget for it, but ''how i'm feeling now'' was largely created with a DIY-aesthetic in mind, with the music production featuring far less personnel than previous projects, and visuals being far more resource-friendly, from the video to "claws" being [[OffTheShelfFX Charli recording herself dancing to a greenscreen at home]], down to the cover art being a mundane camcorder selfie in a mirror.
* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: ''how i'm feeling now'' was also created with an ideal for fan collaboration in mind, with Charli regularly hosting public Zoom meetings with fans during its production to share input, song ideas, and artwork. The biggest act of this was the music video for "forever", a montage of content submitted by fans [[https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1248403859476590593 asked to share various happy memories in video form.]]

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* NoBudget: We don't have exact budget for it, but ''how i'm feeling now'' was largely created with a DIY-aesthetic in mind, with the music production featuring far less personnel than previous projects, and visuals being far more resource-friendly, from resource-friendly. To boot, the video to of "claws" being features [[OffTheShelfFX Charli recording herself dancing to a greenscreen at home]], down to and the cover art being is a mundane camcorder selfie in a mirror.
* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: ''how i'm feeling now'' was also created with an ideal for fan collaboration in mind, with Charli regularly hosting public Zoom and Instagram meetings with fans during its production to share input, song ideas, and artwork. The biggest act of this was the music video for "forever", a montage of content submitted by fans [[https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1248403859476590593 who were asked to share various happy memories in video form.]]



* PermanentPlaceholder: The song "claws" was named off the cuff as Charli was presenting various demos to fans in an Instagram meeting during the production of ''how i'm feeling now'', with her still deciding its official title even as she slated it to be her second single for the album. She considered naming it "I Like", but fans liked the name "claws" so much that it stuck.

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* PermanentPlaceholder: The song "claws" was named off the cuff as Charli was presenting various demos to fans in an Instagram meeting during the production of ''how i'm feeling now'', with her still deciding its official title even as she slated it to be her second single for the album. She considered naming renaming it "I Like", but fans liked the name "claws" so much that it stuck.
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* PermanentPlaceholder: The song "claws" was named off the cuff as Charli was presenting various demos to fans in an Instagram meeting during the production of ''how i'm feeling now'', with her still deciding its official title even as she slated it to be her second single for the album. She considered naming it "I Like", but fans liked the name "claws" so much that it stuck.
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* NoBudget: We don't have exact budget for it, but ''how i'm feeling now'' was largely created with a DIY-aesthetic in mind, with the music production featuring far less personnel than previous projects, and visuals being far more resource-friendly, from the video to "claws" being [[OffTheShelfFX Charli recording herself dancing to a greenscreen at home]], down to the cover art being a mundane camcorder selfie in a mirror.
* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: ''how i'm feeling now'' was also created with an ideal for fan collaboration in mind, with Charli regularly hosting public Zoom meetings with fans during its production to share input, song ideas, and artwork. The biggest act of this was the music video for "forever", a montage of content submitted by fans [[https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1248403859476590593 asked to share various happy memories in video form.]]
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** As seen from the public development process of ''how i'm feeling now'' on Twitter and Instagram, the album's tracklist went through a few different iterations. Songs titled "If I Cried" and "Breathe Out" were respectively performed in an Instagram story and her Candy Shop radio show, [[https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1259247947952209921 while two other tracks called "2hot" and "i hate all this gravity"]] were teased to be on the album but were cut in less than a week before release.
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* CutSong: While she isn't above the occasional [[TeasingCreator tease]] or live performance, virtually all of her unreleased music during the ill-fated ''XCX World'' iteration of her third album is likely never to get an official release, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings mostly out of spite due to them being]] [[ContentLeak leaked in the first place]]. The only exceptions so far are "No Angel" (included as a B-side to the "Focus" single), "Girls Night Out" (released as its own single), and "Party 4 U" (greatly reworked as a track on ''how i'm feeling now'').
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** "Gone" features the lyrics "I feel so unstable, fucking hate these people", [[https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/gy477m/an-exclusive-look-behind-the-scenes-of-gone-with-charli-xcx-and-chris which was originally supposed to be]] "I feel so unstable, [[WriterRevolt fucking hate my label]]", although she specifies that she was actually on good terms with her label and thought [[BitingTheHandHumor the lyric would be funny]].

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