Charli xcx is speaking out about her public image and reputation.
The 33-year-old Brat singer is on the cover of Vanity Fair‘s latest issue, where she was asked about her persona.
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When asked about her public image, she told the mag, “It’s fascinating to see how people ingest your personality and spit it back out—what people cling on to, what people miss. I’m always interested in, like, what does the casual viewer think? And they probably think I’m a girl who parties and does drugs and is a little bit bitchy.”
And when she spoke of her reputation, she added, “I hate this phrase, but what you see is what you get with me. People think it’s all some kind of performance, but it’s not. I’m not sat here talking to you being the way that I am onstage. But I think there is a correlation in that there’s a messiness and a lack of perfection. It’s the combination of talking about those things whilst also embracing them and really struggling with them is what makes me whole. And I think that it makes me honest. You can vouch for me, I hope.”
Charli‘s name has been mentioned a lot recently in conversation with Taylor Swift. Taylor‘s The Life of a Showgirl has a song called “Actually Romantic” that many believe could be about Charli. There have been rumors that Charli‘s song “Sympathy is a Knife” is about Taylor and she alludes to this on “Actually Romantic.”