SUCKER: Revisiting Pre-Hyperpop Charli XCX

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  • Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2024

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  • @Nearraen14
    @Nearraen14 4 года назад +74

    The title track "Sucker" was my fav. It's so underrated -- it's like if Jack Antonoff produced a M.I.A. song. I think her team should've kept "Superlove" on Sucker and re-released it after "Boom Clap" popped off. It's still probably her catchiest song. Sucker had the potential to be big despite not sounding like anything else at the time

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад +11

      Superlove is so underrated omg i wanna talk about it when i discuss True Romance, I wish Atlantic had kept it or even commissioned Charli to remaster it for inclusion on Sucker! I think the potential was squandered by promo-ing and single choices. Break the Rules is cute and great for like shopping malls and movie trailers but as a single, it hurt the cycle.

    • @syntheticsilkwood2206
      @syntheticsilkwood2206 Год назад

      Superlove is like the only old charli song that i ADORE with all my heart

  • @noneapplicable1327
    @noneapplicable1327 4 года назад +72

    we all know boom clap is a banger, don’t lie... that song MADE her solo career and all the local girlies still bang to it, i do 💁🏼‍♀️

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад +7

      At least you’re not lying! I don’t know how to feel about it though, hey siri play Boom Clap 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @noneapplicable1327
      @noneapplicable1327 4 года назад +7

      Eljohn Macaranas u have apple music? Spotify gang rise 🔫🔫🔫

  • @nebulous6320
    @nebulous6320 4 года назад +48

    i loved sucker so much it was so fun and the first era i got to experience as a charli fan it’s so special to me

    • @ladywrld5863
      @ladywrld5863 2 года назад

      You're not a fan if you enjoyed this. It's completely not her.

  • @halifaxdarkrecords1548
    @halifaxdarkrecords1548 3 года назад +17

    The fact people didn’t appreciate her first ep and album, breaks my heart...true romance is my #1 charli album but I honestly can’t even pick one I dislike AT ALL. I love love love everything she does.

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  3 года назад +3

      She was so niche for the time, still is today. I adore her regardless just wish she’d be spoiled with some public acclaim every now and then but never to the point she feels the need to conform or stop doing her thing. It’s a weird tightrope to walk over as a musician.

  • @EljohnMacaranas
    @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад +20

    Comment your favorite Sucker track! I forgot Need Ur Luv which is one of the better tracks off the record. It has a lovely melody that probably warrants more attention but remains a deep cut.

  • @sensitiveangel12
    @sensitiveangel12 3 года назад +12

    In my experience, most angels are either ogs who love tr and sucker, but not really everything else, or newer ones who dislike those but like everything else. And i could never understand those types of people. All her projects are masterpieces, she has very few songs i dislike/don't listen to sm. I only started listening to her in April this year, but she's already one of my favorite artists of all time.
    I need to listen to Sucker more, but I love London Queen, title track and Red Balloon.
    Also, Superlove is one of my fav Charli songs, it should've been on Sucker.

    • @ladywrld5863
      @ladywrld5863 2 года назад

      You're not a real angel, this is not her style

    • @sensitiveangel12
      @sensitiveangel12 2 года назад

      @@ladywrld5863 Wdym lol

    • @AC-qx7eg
      @AC-qx7eg 2 года назад +1

      I’ve listen to her since 2014, love all her albums tbh i liked the changed she took along the way

    • @wheelie_bin
      @wheelie_bin Год назад +1

      i love all her albums honestly,, i cant pick a favorite even if i tried

  • @tomkarssen1309
    @tomkarssen1309 4 года назад +17

    Doing it is my honestly my fav cause I have so many memories attached to it. also the boom clap video was filmed 30 minutes from my home. So i have to love the video for that reason

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад +2

      Omg! How does it feel to live near somewhere pretty iconic? Doing It is such a good track, I wish Americans had better taste bc it deserved way more here in the states. It’s a bop

  • @katiezzzzs
    @katiezzzzs 4 месяца назад +4

    hiii im here after brat ❤❤

  • @HunterJarvis
    @HunterJarvis 4 года назад +27

    Famous is my fave!!! Honestly the core fans of Charli don’t appreciate sucker enough!!!

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад +6

      Yes! I agree 💯 I thought it was a cute record

  • @madox223
    @madox223 4 года назад +8

    someow never knew die tonight was originally for one direction but it makes a lot of sense. my favourite on sucker has to be famous i think but for a period of time back in 2016 i pretty much based my personality off the whole album, i was obsessed

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад +1

      Famous is such an underrated cut and this album definitely deserved a little more recognition. Also basing your personality off an album is so relatable, 2017 Melodrama vibes

  • @thesovgc
    @thesovgc 7 месяцев назад +2

    I'll never forget the first time I heard Boom Clap on the radio and I thought Gwen Stefani had made a miraculous return to relevance 😂.
    I think my favorite song is the closing one, Need Ur Luv. I love the feel of it and her vocal delivery 😍.

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  7 месяцев назад

      Need Ur Luv is so solid, she’s great with acoustic elements!

  • @highlikeheaven
    @highlikeheaven 3 года назад +4

    the way need ur luv wasn’t talked about…. the best track on the album

  • @shadowxcx6503
    @shadowxcx6503 Год назад +2

    Sucker remains the best album I've ever heard. Boom Clap is so nostalgic and I just grew up with this album. It was a very unique one at the time till now. ❤️ I got the CD version for Christmas.

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  Год назад +2

      Glad to see a Sucker stan! Twitter's relentless about the album!

  • @marcusevans119
    @marcusevans119 4 года назад +2

    thank you for covering this! i love charli so much and where she is in music now, but sucker will always hold a special place in my heart!

  • @charlibratfammanfanstan
    @charlibratfammanfanstan Год назад +1

    So Over You is my fave on this. Her tone and inflection along with the cadence of the beat is just excellent.

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  Год назад

      Literally just a gorgeous song. Like I'm shocked it was added onto the digital reissue of the album and wasn't on the original pressing.

  • @zzjamie-is-over-partyzz
    @zzjamie-is-over-partyzz 2 месяца назад +1

    wait ik i commented like two years ago but im back to say im a proud sucker defender 😭 tho true romance is one of my favorite albums sound wise, sucker makes me SO nostalgic to the early 2010s (which was a time i lived my childhood in). tho some songs can feel a bit of its time (die tonight 😍) most songs like body of my own, famous, and the title track are so underrated :) i think songs on this album will be placed in A LOT of teen shows in the next couple years due to its nostalgia bias lol

  • @wrenrhodes1155
    @wrenrhodes1155 2 года назад +3

    i love old charli and current charli, both were making the perfect music for the time, true romance was there for my edgy school years, sucker was my college walk album, and the various ep's were there first time i ever paid my own internet bill, then charli and hifn got me through lockdown (Along with MARINA's ancient dreams album) whatever charli does next i'm here for it

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  2 года назад

      YES! Omg spill on the various EPs and first internet bills.

    • @wrenrhodes1155
      @wrenrhodes1155 2 года назад

      @@EljohnMacaranas well i was about 20, and i was poor most of my life so couldn't afford my own internet until a few years back, so in about 2016 when charli was making her big hyperpop debut i was only just learning how much the internet had changed since i was a kid playing space cadet pinball on a windows 93 rig, but one of those eps i remember was one of my first itunes purchases in xmas 2016 (I think it was vroom vroom) , i'm getting old.

  • @paulgaligheriii7978
    @paulgaligheriii7978 4 года назад +7

    As a fan that found True Romance and devoured every piece of music in between, when “sucker” came out, I didn’t like it. I was one of the basic gays that was like “OooOmmMmGggG...... I wish she’d stay a gothic girl forever” but, the beginning of 2015, no music was “doing it” for me so I gave “sucker” a second chance and I prayed to Charli that she would forgive me for sleeping on her album for 6 months. I think the fact that all the music sounded a certain way wired my brain into thinking she had to stick with one genre. Idk. But sucker is such a monumental place for her career. She gained many fans during the sucker era. I was close minded when it first dropped not gonna lie. I feel like the album was a huge learning process for her and me. I’ve learned that artists are allowed to do whatever the f they want

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад

      Her gothic days are still some of my favorite moments! I don’t blame you for being skeptical at all. But Sucker was such a moment if we have to be honest. The cheerleader aesthetic, the sound, the acclaim. I wish the public had been onboard with it sometimes but it was a great learning moment for her to pursue what she wanted against the label or other people’s interests. Artists /should/ be able to just do whatever the f the want esp artists like her!

  • @orgyonmyown
    @orgyonmyown 4 года назад +11

    There's not one bad song on Sucker. Is It my fave Charli album? Hell no, but our fellow Angels are doing waaaayyyy too much... 😆

  • @KidAMRadio
    @KidAMRadio Месяц назад

    I'm a 39 year old guy and love the song Sucker. The album is really good too. I agree that Break the Rules is not a great song but she pulls it off like no one else could. No bad tracks. She really brings the swagger. The sounds present on this album still sound really fresh to my ears. Gold Coins is another one of my favorites.

  • @ajc94
    @ajc94 Год назад

    Sucker was how I first got into Charli! My friend introduced me to her back in 2014. I was 20 and in my second year of uni. Hearing the songs makes me miss those days so much

  • @paulgaligheriii7978
    @paulgaligheriii7978 4 года назад +5

    Breaking Up and over you got me through some crazy ass times honestly

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад

      “Saw you at the party with everybody
      You look so lonely when you're on your own” her mind 😭

    • @paulgaligheriii7978
      @paulgaligheriii7978 4 года назад +1

      Eljohn Macaranas “I hate your friends and your family too so breaking up was easy to do “

  • @xelarosie
    @xelarosie 4 года назад +3

    I still have this album on my phone. :)))

  • @Declan239
    @Declan239 Год назад +1

    Breaking up is my favourite Charli song, it’s soo underrated

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  Год назад

      Literally should have smashed, it was giving Sour before Olivia 😭

  • @solangelostan6016
    @solangelostan6016 Год назад

    Sucker is my favorite album of hers. Love her newer stuff too though.

  • @gangsterelmoman
    @gangsterelmoman 4 года назад +4

    true romance still her best record

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад +2

      Facts: most cohesive and full body of work to date

  • @jane5786
    @jane5786 3 года назад +1

    im obsessed with ur vids

  • @petabulmer7345
    @petabulmer7345 3 года назад

    I love this album, and this video!

  • @zzjamie-is-over-partyzz
    @zzjamie-is-over-partyzz 2 года назад +1

    some people (maybe) think “oh ag cook invited hyperpop” cuz ya he did in fact officially start the genre, but I also think charli did cuz she put her spin on it and that’s what hyperpop artists are doing today

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  2 года назад

      Charli definitely made it accessible, the original hyperpop sound before her was a little too niche where she made it easy for people on the fence to jump onboard I do agree it’s just as much her genre as it is AG’s

  • @KooCoo28
    @KooCoo28 4 года назад +1

    really nice vid:)

  • @johncooper4874
    @johncooper4874 4 года назад +1

    I still love this album despite it being lower on my Charli ranking. Famous reminds me so much of a Beck song from Colors since Greg Kurstin produced both Famous and most of Colors. That is such a good album and I hate that Beck fans give it so much hate.

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад +1

      Greg’s a legend. His work with Lily Allen on It’s Not Me, It’s You remains impeccable as does his recent works. I didn’t even realize Beck stans hated this.

    • @johncooper4874
      @johncooper4874 4 года назад +1

      @@EljohnMacaranas They hated it because it was pop. I'm both pop and indie stan, and I hate it when indieheads trash on pop when there is good pop music out there. Colors was top-notch compared to some stuff on the radio.

  • @DrManhattanLoL
    @DrManhattanLoL 2 года назад +1

    For my money it didn't age SUPER well, but it showcases that she had a personality that people could get behind and could chart
    So when you've proven your worth to the masses, why note experiment in a way that really showcases your full potential

  • @paulgaligheriii7978
    @paulgaligheriii7978 4 года назад +2

    I would love some Britney Spears analysis especially because I know you and I are the same age and I’m curious to know your raw thoughts.

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад

      I wanted to do a video about Femme Fetale being the first Britney era I was like cognizant enough to live through soon actually, so you might get some Britney analysis (ofc I’ll cover the rest as well just not chronologically)

    • @paulgaligheriii7978
      @paulgaligheriii7978 4 года назад +2

      Eljohn Macaranas femme fatale is a great album to start with :)

  • @JamieBu77
    @JamieBu77 7 месяцев назад +1

    Wait what about I need your luv? The closer of the album

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  7 месяцев назад +1

      Really solid song, it’s a great closer and hearing her on a more analog sounding track is really refreshing.

    • @JamieBu77
      @JamieBu77 6 месяцев назад

      @@EljohnMacaranas Thanks for your reply :3
      Amazing song
      Amazing video

  • @nebulous6320
    @nebulous6320 4 года назад +2

    wish need ur luv got the single treatment as planned😔

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад

      She was extremely excited to start XCX World which sadly never came to fruition 😭

    • @nebulous6320
      @nebulous6320 4 года назад +1

      Eljohn Macaranas she said that they couldn’t come up with the right video concept so it was cancelled but this was also right after she recorded with sophie for the first time and started crafting xcx world so i’m sure that played into the decision as well!

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад

      @@nebulous6320I didn’t know that! That’s so cool!

  • @CriativesTier
    @CriativesTier 4 года назад

    I really liked the direction Charli went with the Sucker album. Her I will call it „real sound“ like her last albums is not my kind of bread unfortunately

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад +2

      I genuinely think her current stuff is her “real sound” for now and I love anything she does. She’s disowned Sucker which is unfair bc for what it was, it was a good pop punk record. Charli’s always seemed to be a contrarian like she runs away from trends. True Romance defied the switch to folk pop, Sucker was a rejection of the traditional synthpop revival of the mid 2010’s and her PC Music/Hyperpop sound is her current rebellion. I imagine if it ever catches on, she’ll go back to a Sucker sound or back into ambient pop or even pivot to indie.

  • @gangsterelmoman
    @gangsterelmoman 4 года назад +2

    break the rules is one of the greatest pop songs of all time

  • @besti2715
    @besti2715 2 года назад

    Need ur love the best song in the album

  • @rubyr8922
    @rubyr8922 4 года назад +2

    I think this is her best record, to be honest, I never understood the appeal of the pc music stuff. to me it sounds high pitched and repetitive

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  4 года назад +1

      PC Music is definitely not for everybody. While it’s given Charli her cult following, it definitely turned off the GP in 2016 when she pivoted and scared Atlantic into locking her out of what would become the unreleased XCX World. I recommend listening to some of her tracks on Charli if you haven’t, the solo tracks like I Don’t Wanna Know, Official, and White Mercedes definitely feel like evolutions of the sort of pop here. Her next album is apparently rumored to be inspired by Janet Jackson so it’ll probably be more traditional pop.

    • @gregtziatzias4747
      @gregtziatzias4747 3 года назад

      I couldn't agree more

    • @ladywrld5863
      @ladywrld5863 2 года назад

      You're not a real fan then. :) Prolly not artistic too

  • @ladywrld5863
    @ladywrld5863 2 года назад +1

    Terrible pop record.the only song I liked was gold coins and doing it which was similar to old real Charli

  • @ju5593
    @ju5593 Год назад +2

    Thank you for making this videos about the more underground artists like Charli Xcx. Would love to see videos about Marina Diamonds discography as well 💕

    • @EljohnMacaranas
      @EljohnMacaranas  Год назад +1

      I will one day cover Marina when I get the time, she’s amongst the alt pop voices that I love most and still see referenced and adored!