Charli XCX has written a new song about losing SOPHIE: “I was in awe of her and wanted to impress her”

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Charli XCX has written a song on her new album about her relationship with SOPHIE, who she says she was “in awe of” and always wanted to impress.In January 2021, the highly influential DJ and producer SOPHIE died at the age of 34 in a tragic accident in Athens.Charli and SOPHIE worked together on many projects, beginning in 2015 with the former’s ‘Vroom Vroom’ EP.

They went on to collaborate on the singles ‘After the Afterparty’, ‘No Angel’, and ‘Girls Night Out’, as well as the ‘Number 1 Angel’ tracks ‘Roll With Me’ and ‘Lipgloss’, and ‘Pop 2’ track ‘Out of My Head’.And now, as confirmed in a new interview with The Face, there is a track on Charli’s upcoming sixth album, which is as yet untitled, that explores her grief over SOPHIE.

As she explains in the interview, the song was the result of a complicated blend of emotions.“There was a lot of distance between us because I was in awe of her and wanted to impress her,” she said.“She believed in me in ways that I didn’t believe [in] myself.

But I felt like I would never be interesting enough to operate in her world outside of the studio, which was the safe space where we could connect and bond over music.”“I didn’t feel like I was magical enough for this unbelievably magic person.