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'Crossed a Creative Line': Obama Favourite Charli XCX Faces Outrage Over AI Use on New Record

Charli XCX's new album faces criticism for using AI in song production, sparking debate over creative integrity and the role of technology in music.

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Charli xcx used AI plugin for experimental sound design on new album Music, Fashion, Film

Charli xcx used AI plugin for experimental sound design on new album Music, Fashion, Film

Charli xcx and producers A. G. Cook and Finn Keane reveal how AI tool Concatenator shaped the audio‑heavy, sample‑driven construction of No One Lasts Forever on her new album.

“We were running around the studio with as many things plugged in as possible just doing the worst sounds, trying to find the ugliest things”: How Charli XCX's producers ran a jam session through an AI sampling plugin to make No One Lasts Forever

“We were running around the studio with as many things plugged in as possible just doing the worst sounds, trying to find the ugliest things”: How Charli XCX's producers ran a jam session through an AI sampling plugin to make No One Lasts Forever

AG Cook and Finn Keane appeared on the Tape Notes podcast with Charli to talk through the making of three tracks from new project Music, Fashion, Film

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“I know that there’s been a lot of conversation around me making a rock album, which is something that I never said”: Charli XCX reflects on the reaction to her 'dancefloor is dead' lyric, and says she's not about to release a rock record

“I don’t even know what the genre is. It’s just me and A G Cook and Finn Keane, doing our thing"

Charli xcx channels her inner rock star in Rock Music video as she toys with a post‑Brat sound

Charli xcx drops her grungy new track Rock Music with a behind‑the‑scenes video shot as the song was being created.

'The Dance Floor Is Dead': Charli XCX Turns to Rock for Her 8th Album

Charli XCX is boldly shifting from dance to rock for her upcoming album, collaborating with A. G. Cook and Finn Keane, amid recent successes like Brit Awards and Grammys.

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“I can’t play the violin. I bought this crappy, cheap violin, and I’d be in the booth and Charli would walk in like ‘what the...?’”: Charli xcx and Finn Keane on the "nails-on-a-chalkboard" strings behind the Wuthering Heights soundtrack

Finn Keane says his deliberately "bad, raspy playing" lent a rough and textured sound to the film's evocative music

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Charli xcx releases haunting new Wuthering Heights ballad Chains of Love

Charli xcx releases haunting new Wuthering Heights ballad Chains of Love

Charli xcx has shared the second track from the Wuthering Heights soundtrack.

Charli xcx goes goth on new song House from Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights soundtrack

Charli xcx goes goth on new song House from Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights soundtrack

Charli xcx has channelled her inner goth on her latest track, House.

Charli xcx working on seventh album amid Taylor Swift 'feud'

Charli xcx working on seventh album amid Taylor Swift 'feud'

Charli xcx's collaborator Finn Keane has revealed the pop star is "deep" into making her follow-up to Brat.

“The verse tricks you into thinking that it’s in a certain key and has this ‘simplistic’ musical language, but then it flips”: Charli XCX’s Brat collaborator Jon Shave on how they created Sympathy Is A Knife

“The verse tricks you into thinking that it’s in a certain key and has this ‘simplistic’ musical language, but then it flips”: Charli XCX’s Brat collaborator Jon Shave on how they created Sympathy Is A Knife

"With Brat, Charli had put so much thought into it before we even got in the studio," he says

“The verse tricks you into thinking that it’s in a certain key and has this ‘simplistic’ musical language, but then it flips”: Charli XCX’s Brat collaborator Jon Shave on how they created Sympathy Is A Knife

“The verse tricks you into thinking that it’s in a certain key and has this ‘simplistic’ musical language, but then it flips”: Charli XCX’s Brat collaborator Jon Shave on how they created Sympathy Is A Knife

"With Brat, Charli had put so much thought into it before we even got in the studio," he says

“Any other musical discussion that has taken place has been kind of anti-Brat": Charli XCX producers reveal a possible about-face in the direction of the multi-Grammy winner

“Any other musical discussion that has taken place has been kind of anti-Brat": Charli XCX producers reveal a possible about-face in the direction of the multi-Grammy winner

Post-Brat, anti-Brat, Brat-sat-on-the mat… Whatever Charli's new image and direction is, it ain't going to be Brat, ok?

"She was the one to say if it was ‘Brat’ or not... She works really really fast, and if we’re bored by something, we’ll just move on": Charli XCX producers Finn Keane and AG Cook on her "relentless" creative process

"She was the one to say if it was ‘Brat’ or not... She works really really fast, and if we’re bored by something, we’ll just move on": Charli XCX producers Finn Keane and AG Cook on her "relentless" creative process

"We did Speed Drive and Von Dutch in one day. It was quite a chill session too, probably about four hours"

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“The night before the session she called me up and said, ‘Mark Ronson just called me.’ That happens if you’re Charli XCX, I guess”: Producer Finn Keane on the making of Speed Drive, from the Barbie soundtrack

“Charli is such a fantastic writer,” he says. “if you give her three or four sounds with energy and vibe, she can completely flesh it out - it’s like a superpower”

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