Song · Charli XCX
“New Shapes” by Charli XCX featuring Christine and the Queens & Caroline Polachek
From the album CRASH (2022) Featuring Christine and the Queens & Caroline Polachek
“New Shapes” by Charli XCX featuring Christine and the Queens & Caroline Polachek appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2022. It was first released in 2022 on the album CRASH. Its best result is #92 on the Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2022. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #506 alternative song of 2022.
"New Shapes" put Charli XCX in a room with two old accomplices, Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek, and all three sing on this retro synth-pop strut, which slides into indie pop and electro-funk along the way. Crash, her fifth studio album, was still months off when it came out as that record's second single on 4 November 2021. The history runs in every direction: Charli and Christine had made "Gone" in 2019, Charli and Polachek cut "Tears" for the 2017 mixtape Pop 2, and Christine and Polachek had teamed up on "La vita nuova" in 2020.
The three singers wrote it with Noonie Bao, Linus Wiklund and Deaton Chris Anthony, the last two also producing, and Geoff Swan mixed. For all the gloss, it's a confession: a lament about being unable to let a partner in, pushing love away and choosing freedom instead.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 92 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2022 | 109 |
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