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Charli XCX: 'There's no cookie-cutter pop star'

Songstress Charli XCX has revealed that she's tired of seeing record labels try to shape artists into what they think they should be because everyone is different and what works for one musician or singer might not work for another. 

Speaking to Paper magazine recently about the expectations of a modern pop star, the 'Boom Clap' sensation admitted that it's pointless trying to fill a role because they you're more likely to fail:

"I think there's this twenty-first-century idea of what sells records, especially within females, but there's no cookie-cutter pop star. Sometimes I think record labels still try and cram artists into that, but the artists who are successful are the ones that tell them to f**k off."

The hitmaker went onto add that misogyny still plays a huge part in the music industry: "There is definitely still a strain of it. It's sh*t sometimes that there are literally no women working at record labels, and female artists tend to get more questions about their validity as creatives, whereas male artists in the same position don't. It's so frustrating."

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