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Running on the spot in a dream. - by charli xcx

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I’ve been in a state of overwhelming creativity of late, so much so that I feel like I’m running on the spot in a dream. There are so many ideas pouring out of me that sometimes I don’t even know where to begin. My friend Georgia and I were recently talking about how our preferred superpower would be the ability to conjure more time. Ideally every week would be 8 days long instead of a pathetic 7. This would hopefully allow for us to live out all our creative fantasies with ease and still leave time for us to rot a day away in bed if we happened to be hungover, which in my case is highly likely. Feeling creativity in abundance is such a fucking blessing and relief. It doesn’t even matter if the ideas are good or not, it just feels euphoric to feel the fountain flowing again. After my previous album, brat, I had this feeling that I wouldn’t be able to make music anymore. When I vocalized this, George said “Yeah, but you always feel this way. We all do.” And he’s right, we do, but it fel

I’ve been in a state of overwhelming creativity of late, so much so that I feel like I’m running on the spot in a dream. There are so many ideas pouring out of me that sometimes I don’t even know where to begin. My friend Georgia and I were recently talking about how our preferred superpower would be the ability to conjure more time. Ideally every week would be 8 days long instead of a pathetic 7. This would hopefully allow for us to live out all our creative fantasies with ease and still leave time for us to rot a day away in bed if we happened to be hungover, which in my case is highly…

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