“I’m so fancy, you already know…” Charli XCX, the songstress behind one of the summer’s catchiest tunes talks to Complex’s own Foster Kamer about her schizophrenic ways, being a fan of the Sweden band, Sad Boys and what she’d like to be remembered for the most – her songwriting skills.

“I want people to write that I was an important songwriter who changed the landscape of pop music,” says Charli. Well, we’re pretty sure she’s well on her way.

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Charli is asked about being a female performer who writes her own material.

“There’s always a catch. Like: ‘Does she really do that? I heard her mum wrote that song.’ I read that about Lorde. I’m like: As if! Just because she’s young and successful, why is someone trying to take that away from her? It’s because she’s highly intelligent and a female who’s killing it. She’s doing something different, and people are afraid of that.” And then there are the inevitable comparisons, not to other pop songwriters—not to Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo or Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij, both of whom Charli’s worked with on her new album—but to other female pop stars. “Just ’cause we all have vaginas doesn’t mean that we all play against each other. We’re all doing our own thing.”

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