On last night's Dec. 16 episode of The Late Show with David Letterman, Charli XCX dropped by to perform her glam-rock inspired track "Need Ur Luv" from her new album Sucker, featuring Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij — the song's co-writer — on piano. Charli spends most of the performance singing and dancing from the top of Batmanglij's piano, offering quite a unique spin on what could have been just another typical late night performance.
You can check out Charli XCX's performance of "Need Ur Luv" featuring Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij from The Late Show with David Letterman here — and notice how Letterman does not attempt to pronounce Batmanglij:
"Need Ur Luv" appears on Charli XCX's latest album Sucker, which is the British singer's third studio album overall, her first since her 2013 major label debut True Romance. The album has spawned three music videos so far: "Boom Clap," "Break the Rules," and "Breaking Up." Other than "Need Ur Luv," Rostam Batmanglij also co-wrote the song "Die Tonight" for the album.
"I hate the idea of people thinking that I'm just a little girl who goes into studios with pop producers and they work their magic," the 22-year-old singer told Pitchfork. "I executive produced this record myself and I put those people in a room together because I thought it would be right."
"I want to bring those people together because I think I can make it work," she continues. "I've always been good at never being the same thing twice, and it's partially because I like collaboration."
You can check out Music Times's Junk Mail review of Charli XCX's Sucker here.
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