Charli XCX proclaims “nothing matters” while apparently jabbing Camila Cabello
Fans—and Charli herself apparently—noticed that Cabello's new song "I Luv It" bears a striking resemblance to Charli's "I Got It"
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2024 may be the year of pop girl albums, but it’s also shaping up to be the year of pop girl feuds. First, it was Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion, who got into it after Megan called out Minaj’s registered sex offender husband in her song, “Hiss,” prompting a whole, hastily-penned diss track in response from her opponent. Now, Camila Cabello and Charli XCX are taking up the mantle (or, at least, Charli is) and honestly? Thank god. There’s been a hole in the landscape ever since Katy Perry showed up at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour stop in Sydney last month, seemingly putting their decade-old beef to a final end. We needed this.
Earlier this week, a newly blonde Cabello shared a clip from her latest track, “I Luv It,” along with a video featuring herself hanging out of a car going 60 on the interstate. (Yes, people have already made all the requisite Hereditary jokes.) The song, which features Cabello repeating the words “I love it” over a hyperpop-adjacent beat, sounds nothing like the artist’s previous hits (i.e. “Havana,” “Señorita,” and “Shameless”). It does, however, sound a lot like Charli XCX’s 2020 track “I Got It”, a resemblance that fans pointed out almost immediately.
But Charli, whose upcoming album is aptly titled brat, is not one to take a slight like this lying down. Today, she posted a video on TikTok seemingly mocking Cabello’s, but set to her own song in her own car.
She didn’t stop there. The singer seemingly confirmed the drag with a follow-up post on Twitter/X, in which she wrote: “comee onnn mess is fun! nothing matters!” And while she’s absolutely right that mess is fun, especially for the observers outside of it, it’s pretty easy to say that nothing matters when you’re the one calling the shots in the first place. (As of this writing, Cabello hasn’t responded to either of Charli’s posts.)
Placing this budding feud even more squarely within the realm of beefs of yore, fans have also pointed out that the two used to be collaborators and friends. Charli co-wrote “Señorita” and the two performed together with Taylor Swift during her Reputation tour in 2018. In a resurfaced clip from the VMAs, Charli even referred to Cabello as an “iconic legend and my girl.” There is, of course, a real chance this is all for show and that Cabello is in on the joke, but for now… mess is fun!
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Wow both of those videos are impressively bad.
Can the AV Club just tell us which one we’re meant to hate for no reason already?
They’re the same person, right?
Brunette battle!
This is the new M. Night movie, isn’t it? Two pop starlets, bitch-battling it out for1118 minutes, then in the final 2 minutes we find out they’re the same person.
OnlyFans can tell.
Other than the fact that they look nothing alike whatsoever and their music (aside from this song) does not sound even remotely similar, this is a great joke.Wait, no…. nevermind, it’s actually very stupid.
Considering how much of pop music is algorithm driven, of course the algorithm is going to hit on the same stuff over and over.
Wait, the algorithm is hitting on things now?
This AI stuff really is getting out of control.
“I shall create an algorithm…that will hit on me.”
Here I was assuming it was a rip off of Icona Pop’s song “I Love It”, which Charli cowrote.
Charli actually released “I Got It” in 2017 on her iconic EP “Pop 2″. Camila’s video teaser did immediately remind me of the video for “enemy” off of Charli’s 2020 lockdown album. Camila was also previously roasted for trying to rip off Caroline Polachek’s album aesthetic (Caroline and Charli are good friends), so I think either Miss Havana is getting bolder or we’re going to find out Charli has a writing credit on this new song.