Charli XCX will get the joke. The “360” singer stopped by Howard Stern’s SiriusXM channel on Wednesday morning (Oct. 2) for her first-ever go to to the King of All Media’s morning present, the place the host requested her if she was offended by Bowen Yang‘s over-the-top spoof of her Brat Summer time vibe throughout a sketch on Saturday’s fiftieth season premiere episode.
“Oh, no, no, no. I feel SNL is iconic and Troye and I we had an inkling it was coming and so we had been very enthusiastic about it,” she mentioned of Sweat Tour co-headliner singer Troye Sivan. “I really like Bowen and I truthfully suppose he did an awesome job. I used to be very impressed with the hair texture, truly. I assumed it was a extremely good wig. It was good, it was cool.”
Yang, certainly, did rock a killer wavy hairpiece for the bit that featured him as Charli internet hosting a political-themed discuss present alongside Sarah Sherman’s ab-tastic home DJ Sivan. The bit opened with Yang’s Charli introducing her Discuss Discuss Present — a reference to one of many songs on Charli’s Brat album — earlier than transferring on to the so Charli phase “brat or nat.”
The loving tribute included Yang’s Charli cheekily asking solid member Chloe Fineman’s CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins if she’d ever achieved ketamine on a set that was the identical lime inexperienced coloration as the quilt of the singer’s sixth album.
Elsewhere in her chat with Stern, Charli talked about her breakthrough a cappella efficiency of Aqua’s “Barbie Lady” as a four-year-old on a cruise together with her mother and father in addition to revealing that she’s by no means met one in all her absolute musical north stars: Britney Spears. She did, nevertheless, say she went to see the singer’s Las Vegas present years in the past and was satisfied that although Brit didn’t know she was there, she suspected she’d noticed her when the “Poisonous” star spoke in a British accent throughout the set, solely to seek out out from a good friend that Spears does that “on a regular basis.”
After additionally expressing her love for the Spice Women, Charli stunned Stern by revealing that she thinks late punk godhead Lou Reed is “the best artist of all time. I feel lyrically he’s simply… I dunno, he’s simply on this different stage. Such as you mentioned, folks in all probability would by no means affiliate me and him collectively, however I feel his lyrics are so conversational,” she mentioned.
“He paints an image of what’s in entrance of him, whether or not it’s somebody pulling a rose out of a rubbish can in New York, or the scene at Max’s,” she mentioned of the famed Max’s Kansas Metropolis bar that was a gathering place of New York’s underground music, poetry and humanities scene within the late Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies. “He actually paints this actually particular image referencing Sweet and Jackie and all of those individuals who possibly the listener doesn’t essentially know who he’s speaking about, however you’ll be able to type of go and skim [about]… I feel that was one thing that was actually inspiring to me on Brat, to type of paint this actually particular image of individuals in my life, locations that I am going to on this very conversational means he does.”
Charlie and Sivan rocked New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard final week on their joint tour, the place she was joined unexpectedly friends Lorde and Addison Rae. The outing rolls on tonight with a present at Bridgestone Area in Nashville.
