Charli XCX Clarifies Her Comments About Opening for Taylor Swift

Charli XCX is addressing her comments in a recent Pitchfork story about opening for Taylor Swift on the reputation tour, which have caused some controversy among fans.

“I’m really grateful that [Taylor] asked me on that tour. But as an artist, it kind of felt like I was getting up on stage and waving to 5-year-olds,” she said in the interview.

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The 27-year-old “1999″ singer posted a message on her social media on Tuesday (August 6) after the article went live.

“Hey, a few people on the Internet have taken something I said out of context and I want to clarify that there is absolutely no shade and only love here! As I say in the article and have said many times before, I am extremely grateful to Taylor for inviting me to open for her. She’s one of the biggest artists of my generation and the reputation tour was one of the biggest tours in history,” Charli wrote.

“In the printed conversation of this much wider conversation my answers about this tour were boiled down into one kind of weird sentence – leading up to that tour I’d been playing a tonne of 18+ club shows and so to be on stage in front of all ages was new to me and made me approach my performances with a whole new kind of energy – more so I talked about how it was brilliant opening for Taylor, I am extremely grateful for the opportunity I was given and how much fun it was to perform to a new audience!”

See the rest of Charli‘s message inside…