Charli XCX Conquers the Apocalypse in Lime Green: How a British Pop Provocateur Became the World’s Accidental Ambassador
It’s 3 a.m. in Singapore, 9 p.m. in Lagos, and somewhere over the mid-Atlantic a red-eye cabin is vibrating to the tinny leakage of a teenager’s AirPods: “I’m so Julia, I’m so Julia…” Charli XCX—born Charlotte Aitchison in Cambridge, raised on dial-up and the death rattles of Cool Britannia—has become the unofficial soundtrack to a…