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Charli XCX
Charlotte Emma Aitchison (born 2 August 1992), known professionally as Charli XCX, is a British singer and songwriter. She began posting songs on Myspace in 2008 before entering the London rave scene. Signing a recording contract with Asylum Records in 2010, Charli XCX released a series of singles and mixtapes in the early 2010s. In 2012, she was featured on "I Love It (Icona Pop song), I Love It" by Swedish duo Icona Pop, which became her first number-one song in the UK and received global success. Her debut studio album, ''True Romance (Charli XCX album), True Romance'' (2013), was released to positive reviews but failed to meet commercial expectations. In 2014, Charli XCX was featured on Iggy Azalea's single "Fancy (Iggy Azalea song), Fancy", which became her most streamed song and one of the year's List of best-selling singles of 2014 in the United States, best-selling singles worldwide. The same year, she released "Boom Clap", which became her first solo top-ten single in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic music, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the New wave music, new wave movement of the late 1970s. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, and the mid-1970s saw the rise of electronic art musicians. After the breakthrough of Gary Numan in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra introduced the TR-808 rhythm machine to popular music, and the band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell ( ; born December 18, 2001) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single "Ocean Eyes (song), Ocean Eyes", written and produced by her brother Finneas O'Connell, with whom she collaborates on music and live shows. In 2017, she released her debut extended play (EP), ''Don't Smile at Me''. Commercially successful, it reached the top 15 of record charts in numerous countries, including the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. Eilish's debut studio album, ''When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?'' (2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 and UK Albums Chart and was one of the year's best-selling albums. Its single "Bad Guy (Billie Eilish song), Bad Guy" became the first by an artist born in the 21st century to top the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and be certified Diamond (RIAA certification), Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guess (song)
"Guess" is a song by English singer Charli XCX taken from ''Brat and It's the Same But There's Three More Songs So It's Not, Brat and It's the Same but There's Three More Songs So It's Not'', the deluxe edition of her sixth studio album, ''Brat (album), Brat'' (2024). A remix version featuring American singer Billie Eilish was released on 1 August 2024 as a single from ''Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat'', the remix album of ''Brat''. The song interpolates the Daft Punk song "Technologic". Released alongside a music video from which 10,000 items of underwear were donated to I Support the Girls, the remix marked the first studio collaboration by Eilish in several years and was the fourth remix from ''Brat''. "Guess" received positive reviews from critics and entered the top of the UK Singles Chart, and at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. It also topped the Dance/Electronic Songs, ''Billboard'' Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorde
Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (born 7 November 1996), known professionally as Lorde ( ), is a New Zealand singer and songwriter. She is known for her unconventional style of pop music and introspective songwriting, and has been referred to as the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Alternative". Lorde first gained recognition as a teenager during a talent show performance. She signed with Universal Music Group (UMG) in 2009 and began collaborating with producer Joel Little in 2011. Their first effort, an extended play (EP) titled ''The Love Club EP'', was self-released in 2012 for free download on SoundCloud before it was commercially released in 2013. The EP's single, "Royals (Lorde song), Royals", topped charts in multiple regions and spent nine weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. It sold 10 million units worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time. Her debut studio album ''Pure Heroine'' was released that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl, So Confusing
"Girl, So Confusing" (stylized in sentence case) is a song by the British singer Charli XCX from her sixth studio album ''Brat'' (2024). She wrote the song with the English producer A. G. Cook, who also assisted in its production, and released it through Atlantic Records. A glitch-influenced indie dance song, "Girl, So Confusing" is built on talk-sing Auto-Tune vocals and a throbbing bassline. It deals with Charli XCX's strained relationship with another female musician. Upon its release, fans and critics speculated about the subject of the song; many believed it to be about the Japanese and English singer Rina Sawayama, the Welsh singer Marina Diamandis, or the New Zealand singer Lorde. Charli XCX later confirmed in a profile interview with ''Billboard'' that the latter artist served as the muse behind the track's subject. A remix featuring Lorde was released on 21 June 2024. It builds on the original track's lyrics and provides an answer from Lorde, who discusses her own i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benga (musician)
Adegbenga Otomayomi Adejumo (born 1 September 1986), known as Benga, is a British musician from Croydon, known for being a pioneer of dubstep record production. He has been featured on a variety of compilations including Mary Anne Hobbs's '' Warrior Dubz'', Tempa's ''The Roots of Dubstep'' and the BBC Radio 1Xtra anniversary mix. Career Adejumo is of Yoruba Nigerian descent. Inspired by UK garage producer Wookie, Benga would produce tunes on a PlayStation, and subsequently FruityLoops. As a teenager he would visit the Big Apple record shop in Croydon where he was introduced to Skream, and together they would help forge the sound of dubstep emerging in the early 2000s. His productions caught the attention of DJ Hatcha, who worked at the shop, and, by the age of 15, Benga had made his first record, "Skank", released on Big Apple's own record label in 2002. Benga's second release was a collaboration with Skream, called "The Judgement". Further releases followed on Big Apple R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skream
Oliver Dene Jones (born 1 June 1986), known professionally as Skream, is an English electronic music producer based in Croydon. Skream has released records on several British record labels, such as Tempa, Tectonic, and Big Apple Records, and has performed throughout Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and Japan, as well as the UK. Skream is known as an early and influential architect of the dubstep genre. Skream and longtime collaborators Artwork and Benga co-founded a music group called Magnetic Man. Their debut album, '' Magnetic Man'' was released in 2010. Since 2013 Skream has primarily focused on House music and Disco. Origins Jones was born in West Wickham, Bromley, London. As a teenager, he worked at Big Apple Records, a Croydon-based record store that was at the centre of the early dubstep scene; even prior to this, Jones had become acquainted with Hatcha, another dubstep pioneer, because Jones' brother worked on an adjacent floor in Big Apple Records. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addison Rae
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Von Dutch (song)
"Von Dutch" (stylized in sentence case) is a song by British singer Charli XCX. It was released on 29 February 2024 through Atlantic Records. Written by Charli alongside its producer Finn Keane, the track serves as the lead single from her sixth studio album, ''Brat''. The song and its remix version received a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Pop Recording and Best Remixed Recording, respectively, winning the former award. "Von Dutch" was also used as the official theme song for WWE's 2025 Royal Rumble wrestling event. Background and composition Charli teased the song on her social media pages before making videos on TikTok TikTok, known in mainland China and Hong Kong as Douyin (), is a social media and Short-form content, short-form online video platform owned by Chinese Internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which may range in duration f ... featuring a 20-second snippet of the chorus. One of these videos featured American singer Addison Rae, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yung Lean
Jonatan Aron Leandoer Håstad (born 18 July 1996), known professionally as Yung Lean, is a Swedish rapper. Widely cited as one of the most influential figures in the early cloud rap era, Yung Lean rose to prominence in 2013 with his song " Ginseng Strip 2002", which went viral on YouTube. Later that same year, he released his debut mixtape, ''Unknown Death 2002'', and the following year, he released his debut studio album, '' Unknown Memory''. Yung Lean has since released the mixtapes '' Frost God'' (2016), ''Poison Ivy'' (2018) and '' Stardust'' (2022), and the studio albums ''Warlord'' (2016), '' Stranger'' (2017), ''Starz'' (2020), '' Psykos'' (2024) and '' Jonatan'' (2025). He released the albums ''Nectar'' (2019), ''Blodhundar & Lullabies'' (2020) and ''Sugar World'' (2023) under the pseudonym Jonatan Leandoer96, a project which strays away from his hip-hop roots and incorporates elements of indie rock and neofolk. Early life Håstad was born on 18 July 1996 in Stockh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn
Robin Miriam Carlsson (; born 12 June 1979), known professionally as Robyn (), is a Swedish singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ. Her 1995 debut album ''Robyn Is Here'' produced two Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 top 10 singles: "Do You Know (What It Takes)" and "Show Me Love (Robyn song), Show Me Love". Her second and third albums, ''My Truth'' (1999) and ''Don't Stop the Music (Robyn album), Don't Stop the Music'' (2002), were released in Sweden. The 2010 sleeper hit “Dancing On My Own” is often credited as her signature song and helped rejuvenate her career. Robyn returned to international success with her fourth album, ''Robyn (album), Robyn'' (2005), which brought a Grammy Award nomination. The album spawned the singles "Be Mine! (Robyn song), Be Mine!" and "With Every Heartbeat" – the latter of which topped the charts in the United Kingdom. Robyn released a trilogy of mini-albums in 2010, known as the ''Body Talk (Robyn album), Body Talk'' series. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
