It’s fitting that Charli XCX accompanied her post on X about “the realities of being a pop star” with a photo of Lou Reed — the enigmatic frontman of the Velvet Underground. The image is a screenshot of Reed from a 1974 interview where he answers rapid-fire questions as laconically and languidly as possible, much to the chagrin of the rabid journalists huddled around him. As Charli, who once she make a “ Lou Reed record ,” might put it, that’s art, baby.

In her new Substack published Friday , Charli begins with a few clarifications. While she writes “being a pop star has its pros and cons like most jobs in this world, she says, “I don’t view what I do as a ‘job’ and I secondly don’t really view myself as purely a pop star, I’m just using that terminology specifically for this piec

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