Charli XCX Gives Music, Fashion, Film Songs Their Live Debuts At Nashville Spotify Show

How Charli XCX's new album going to work in a live setting? Charli released the excellent Music, Fashion, Film last week, and it marks an intentional step back from the anthemic force of the whole Brat situation. Her new tracks are inward-looking and idiosyncratic, but they're going to have to fill up big venues. Charli will play a headlining set at Lollapalooza on Friday, and then she'll head off on an arena tour with Underscores. It'll be fun to see how it all plays out. Last night, Charli gave a bit of a preview when she played a bunch of those new songs live for the first time. On Wednesday night, Charli XCX played a Spotify event at the Basement East in Nashville, and the setlist had a heaping selection of Music, Fashion, Film tracks. She debuted some of those songs at a one-off Brooklyn show earlier this month, but the Nashville set included five that Charli had never performed before: "Yeah," "Magic Metal Montana," "Card Declined," "2007," and "No One Lasts Forever." Sadly, David Cronenberg did not appear to do his spoken-word part on "No One Lasts Forever" — or, if he did, then the video cut off before he arrived. Seems unlikely.Charli has a live band for the Nashville show...