“I made the album in just five weeks… It was so special,” singer writes in reflection on 2020 album
Charli XCX has revealed she’ll finally release a video for her 2020 single “Party 4 U” to coincide with the five-year anniversary of How I’m Feeling Now.
While the singer is still in the midst of her Brat summer, she turned to Instagram Wednesday to share a handwritten note reflecting on How I’m Feeling Now, a release that “honestly just feels like yesterday,” she wrote.
“So much has changed since then: me, my life, elements of my music and most definitely the world,” XCX wrote.
“I made the album in just five weeks, from conception to release, entirely publicly in collaboration with all of you. It was so special. I felt like I rediscovered myself, my sanity + my sense of connection with the world, at a time where we were all so alone.”
How I’m Feeling Now was recorded during the Covid-19 quarantines, and its arrival in May 2020 was dampened in part by the continuing pandemic. However, five years later, the album’s “Party 4 U” has seen a resurgence thanks to TikTok as well as its inclusion in the Brat Tour setlist, leading her label to re-release the single earlier this month and pair it with a music video arriving Thursday, the album’s fifth anniversary.
“Obviously I wanted to do something to celebrate,” Charli hinted in the handwritten letter, later sharing an image from the forthcoming “Party 4 U” video.
“It was all of us at our most raw, our most stripped, our most vulnerable. I will never forget it, and I really can’t believe that 5 years later one of the Angel favorites is having its own special moment.”
