![]() I don’t think I’m influenced by a certain genre, it’s more just like people’s song-writing: I’m attracted to clever song-writing, and that tends to be the artists that I really love.” “I’m all over the board in terms of influences,” she says of the sonic inspiration behind “My Friends Online”. “It was the 1975, but also Taylor Swift is massive for me as well -I love her songwriting. I also added some acoustics in there, because I was like ‘Charli’s voice over some acoustics would just be so good.’”Įlio is one of the few artists today who operates more or less completely independently: she writes and produces all of her own music, drawing from a broad palette to achieve her desired sound. I feel like it’s definitely an interesting combo of me and her. “She sent me the stems, so I gave it a couple of listens and then just didn’t listen to it until I was done the remix. “It was really fun, ‘cause I hadn’t heard the song before,” she says of the experience. Whereas the original song contains the industrial, futuristic sounds XCX is known for, Elio took a softer approach to the music, and added her own vocals to the mix. We just met up, and it’s kind of just been like this ever since!”Ĭharli appears to have taken on a co-managerial type role, promoting Elio’s music on her Beats 1 Radio show ‘The Candy Shop’ and her Spotify playlist, ‘The Motherfucking Future.’ She also recently asked Elio to remix the lead single off her new album how i’m feeling now, titled “Forever”. And then Charli was in New York in September promoting her album, and I happened to be there writing. Over a few months, I kept talking to them and kept meeting up with them. Their whole dynamic is really cool because they’re all best friends, and they grew up together. “So it’s Charli, Twiggy, and then my other manager, Sam. She’s exactly what I wanted in a manager,” she says of Rowley. “I met her and we got coffee together in LA, and she was just so amazing. While the rest of us U of T students were hunkering down for midterms, Elio was in LA, meeting with music industry players such as Katie ‘Twiggy’ Rowley, who also manages prolific pop star Charli XCX. “I actually kind of miss it - I liked school.” So I did.”Įlio initially pursued a joint program between Sheridan and U of T before focusing solely on art history. I was doing more music than I was essay writing, and so I was like, ‘I should probably –– I mean, you know, I’m 21, I can –– risk it’. I went to LA and the UK and met a bunch of people, started doing co-writes and stuff like that while I was there, and it’s just grown from that point. I dropped out of my third year and just went for it. ![]() “I had a band in high school, and I’d been writing and stuff there, so I’ve always been doing it, but it’s always been a side thing,” she says. She didn’t always plan on being a full-time musician, however. Elio’s singular vision and distinctive brand of bedroom pop make it apparent that the emerging singer is well-poised to take over the world of pop music. And a week before we were set to release and everybody went into lockdown, I was like, ‘These lyrics are hitting way too close right now’ - you literally couldn’t have predicted it.” Nevertheless, the song has resonated with listeners across the globe, and is now appearing atop some of the most popular playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. “It’s mainly about having to live out your relationships online, and with that, having friends on the internet that you’ve never met before but that you feel so connected to. I found myself staring at my phone, and anytime that I wasn’t working, I was glued to it,” she recalls. “It was mainly just because I was in LA, and all of my friends and my family and my boyfriend are here. ![]() “I wrote it in November, so none of this was really a thing then,” she tells me over Zoom. ![]()
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