I posed a similar question back when I wrote about Smoosh. I can tell you what I was NOT doing. Definitely wasn't becoming an experimental electro phenom on the London scene. Nope. Twasn't I.

But it is Charli XCX.


Her first singele !Franchesckaar! comes out on August 18, and you can catch a :30 clip below. But I immediately fell in love with another track. I Wanna Be Darth Vader is tops. When you sample the dark lords theme and make it into a highly danceable electro track, you;ve got my vote of confidence. And my booty moving. She notes that it's for "the childhood villain inside all of us."

Be on the lookout for CHARLI XCX. At times, she may look and dress like Winehouse at times, but this young lass is so far from that mess. She's got talent, knows it, and isn't laying in the gutters of Londontown.

Other tracks of note, as streaming on her MySpace, include The Beat, Emmelline and Photography.

Pre-order !Franchesckaar! here.

mp3: CHARLI XCX - !Franchesckaar! (clip)
mp3: CHARLI XCX - I Wanna Be Darth Vader