Earlier this month, Charli XCX joined Substack . It’s not odd for a pop star to want to share thoughts in a more long-form, newsletter setting (her friend Lorde notably kept a long-running tour diary well before the Substack boom in recent years). But her first two posts do contain some big reflections on her life as a pop star, specifically her feelings about existing as one in this current moment.

“After my previous album, Brat , I had this feeling that I wouldn’t be able to make music anymore,” she wrote in the debut newsletter titled “ Running on the spot in a dream .”

“When I vocalized this, George [Daniel, her husband] said ‘Yeah, but you always feel this way. We all do.’ And he’s right, we do, but it felt so potent this time, sort of like being hit by a truck and left on t

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