how i'm feeling now
by Charli xcx
  • Record Label: Atlantic
  • Release Date: May 15, 2020
User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 424 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 380 out of 424
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 424
  3. Negative: 29 out of 424
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  1. vitortfv
    Dec 5, 2020
    7
    pink diamond - 6,5/10
    forever - 7/10
    claws - 8/10
    7 years - 8/10
    detonate - 7/10
    enemy - 7,5/10
    i finally understand - 6,7/10
    c2.0 - 8/10
    party 4 u - 8,5/10
    anthems - 8/10
    visions - 7,5/10
  2. All_ButTrU4
    Nov 25, 2021
    7
    While not life-altering, how i’m feeling now is fun, fast and thoroughly listenable. It’s absorbing as a document from a strange period, and its diaristic, vloggy aspects provide an intriguing peek into artistry under pressure.
  3. Swiftlinktter
    May 15, 2020
    7
    In her fourth album she really proves that she's the future of the pop, congratulations
  4. Lajaleaa
    Aug 4, 2020
    6
    ( 62/100 )

    Lo siento chicos, pero en lo que a mi concierne, Charli XCX se está estipulando como la peor artista Pop y Experimental de la decada. Con un fracaso increíble el año pasado con su álbum "Charli" que tocó uno de los fondos más profundos de mi desaprobación, ella regresa sin mayores aspiraciones, ideas o intenciones. Claro, su esencia autentica y su juego de texturas y sonidos    ( 62/100 )

    Lo siento chicos, pero en lo que a mi concierne, Charli XCX se está estipulando como la peor artista Pop y Experimental de la decada. Con un fracaso increíble el año pasado con su álbum "Charli" que tocó uno de los fondos más profundos de mi desaprobación, ella regresa sin mayores aspiraciones, ideas o intenciones. Claro, su esencia autentica y su juego de texturas y sonidos Trance e Industrial coexisten con cierta sensibilidad y forma, pero a pesar de todo, nada tiene un discurso, la forma no tiene estructura, el poder de su música está obligada a existir y la sensibilidad es totalmente cliché. Aunque A. G. Cook eleva minimamente el proyecto, no alcanza para realmente darle sentido, dirección o relevancia a esta artista. La popularidad de Charli XCX de repente es obvia, pues representa el vacío en la masas y la poca ambición de generar un acuerdo propio y extender el ser fuera de lo superficial.
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    I'm sorry guys, but as far as I'm concern, Charli XCX is stipulating herself as the worst Pop and Experimental artist of the decade. With an incredible failure last year with her album "Charli" that touched one of the most profound bottoms of my disapproval, she comes back with no bigger aspirations, ideas nor intentions. Of course, her authentic essence and her dynamic with textures and Trance and Industrial sounds coexist with certain sensibility and form, but despite everything, nothing has a speech, the form has no structure, the power of her music is obligated to exist and the sensibility is totally cliche. Even if A. G. Cook minimally rise the project, it's not enough to give a sense, direction, or relevance to this artist. The popularity of Charly XCX is suddenly obvious since she represents the emptiness in the masses and the lack of ambition to have a self agreement and extend the being out of the superficial.    … Expand
  5. Frenitis
    May 21, 2020
    6
    this album is good. But not so much. The way ,she sings, is always linear and tedious. Mixing sounds is not experimentation. there is something old in all this. The previous album was much better.
  6. Jackson777
    Oct 11, 2021
    6
    Electronic pop nonsense. Decent but nothing special, although sonically the production is better than many, many pop albums.
  7. ivanpepen
    May 15, 2020
    5
    While having a few enjoyable songs she keeps creating annoying productions with a bunch of mixed non-sense sounds. She has recorded this album in such a short time and you can definitely tell.
  8. Izanglez
    Jun 6, 2020
    5
    I feel like this album is an attempt of edgy production. There are some good songs, but the others are just so difficult to listen to in my opinion. Went through this album with the hope of getting a really unique type of music but it disappointed me.
  9. Sadeeedwards
    Nov 26, 2020
    5
    I wasn't sure what to expect from Charli, but this was definitely unique. I found myself having "claws" and "enemy" on repeat, unfortunately the only songs. The album was way too much, over production. Very messy, I wish it were better.
  10. Iia
    May 30, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was really disappointed with the record, especially with the first single being somewhat promising. This record does NOT hold up well against Charli or Pop 2, with those two projects, they had a direction, they had a goal and they reached it. However with this album, there was a direction with some songs but then diverges right off with tracks like “Claws”, I don’t understand how that track made the final cut. -
    I’m going to guess these 11 tracks just came right off the top of her mind and didn’t try to come up with more better songs. Tracks like “Pink Diamond”, “Pink Diamond”, and “Claws” make me question the real intention of the album, was she trying to write about love or quarantine? Because she didn’t do so well mixing the two concepts together, maybe in “Forever”? -
    One thing I do like lyrically is that she doesn’t focus so heavily on love, she does venture off to other aspects of quarantine like friendships and self reflection, but didn’t do well at expressing them melodically, plus I didn’t enjoy the love songs that were present as they had little to nothing to do with quarantine, a song like that include “party 4 u”, I heard that track was made years in advance, and was just polished for this album, however it still feels contradictory to the concept of the album.    … Expand
  11. Chris182
    Apr 27, 2021
    4
    I never really like Charli's music but i did enjoy her last album for the most part. I thought i would like this one too since the I like the single Claws. Sadly this isnt the case and it is one of my least favorite albums of 2020.
    Best songs: Claws, Detonate, enemy, i finally understand
    Worst Songs: Party 4 U, Pink Diamond, c2.0
  12. Stig499
    May 18, 2020
    3
    old songs like «i love it» and «sucker» album will forever remain the best in Charlie's discography. All that she releases is now done with one purpose in order to please her new “right” audience
  13. tasby
    May 29, 2020
    3
    just wanted to say i think this album is very bad. boom clap the sound of a 3
  14. Broyax
    Jan 3, 2021
    2
    Avertissement : des éléments putophobes sont présents dans cette critique ; âmes sensibles et autres Caliméro SJW, s’abstenir !

    Bon, c’est pas que j’écoute souvent de la musique à vrai dire, car je n’ai pas le temps ni l’envie d’en écouter parce que c’est trop souvent une perte de temps et que le temps, c’est de l’argent. Et l’argent, ça coûte du pognon ! Mais là à force de voir    Avertissement : des éléments putophobes sont présents dans cette critique ; âmes sensibles et autres Caliméro SJW, s’abstenir !

    Bon, c’est pas que j’écoute souvent de la musique à vrai dire, car je n’ai pas le temps ni l’envie d’en écouter parce que c’est trop souvent une perte de temps et que le temps, c’est de l’argent. Et l’argent, ça coûte du pognon ! Mais là à force de voir régulièrement cet album et notamment la pochette de cet album (notamment sur Metacritic parce que j’y vais pas mal) je me décide à écouter l’album et découvre que ce n’est pas aussi désatreux que je m’y attendais. Même si je m’attendais… à rien à dire vrai.

    Mais revenons à la pochette et donc à la « chanteuse »… chanteuse, vraiment ? c’est pour ça que j’ai mis les guillemets : « chanteuse ». Parce que si t’appelles ça « chanter », moi je suis un putain d’astronaute ! en route vers Mars. Ah oui mais donc, ne mettons pas la grue avant le beauf : cette pochette franchement… elle attire l’attention et le regard, elle devrait attirer les féministes également, non ?

    C’est en effet une pochette de pétasse, prostipute et prostipouffiasse. Et puta en espagnol, putana en italien. Bref, ce qu’on appelle une « attention whore ». Et donc, qu’est-ce quelle fait avec sa caméra, est-ce qu’elle nous prépare un bon porno ou un gonzo bien crado ? ou entre les deux, une « sex tape » pour relancer sa carrière, peut-être ?

    M’enfin bon, sa « musique » reste très orientée electro (ce qui n’est pas si mal) mais très commerciale aussi, très proche, trop proche du genre des autres pétasses qui remuent leur boule dans des clips plus ou moins prétentieux et graveleux. Et vulgaires. Sa « voix » qui abuse des effets (métallisés) a un air bling-bling et globalement peu mélodieux…

    Alors, la conclusion ou la morale est la suivante : l’habit fait le moine, je suppose… la voix fait la pétasse et vice et versa. Cela étant, quelques arrangements sont presque comestibles (malgré leur répétition) dans cet album : c’est pour ça que je mets 2. Quand même.    … Expand
  15. RageNate
    Jun 16, 2020
    2
    Tracks worthy of staying in my Library (2/11):
    - Enemy
    - I Finally Understand
  16. Derma
    May 25, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. How is this a quarantine album? The tracks feel super rushed to the point where they still sound like demos-though to be fair she created this album in like a couple of weeks. This didn’t deserve the title of an album, this should’ve been another mixtape considering how rough and glitchy the tracks were. The standout tracks for me were “c2.0” and “7 years”, but even then those two were too glitchy for me. What’s even weirder is the track “claws”, this is very simplistic, the track is very very shallow, lyrically and sonically, not that much substance to be found. nearly all of the tracks in this album are disposable, you can just tell they were trying to make the album sound distant and “quarantine-y” while actually being in quarantine-you just get a big mess of sounds. None of the tracks in general were memorable. It’s sad cause Charli’s 2 mixtapes beat what we have going on here. Even though her fan base got very involved in the creative process of this album, it just didn’t work out, which is fine, it’s just that this wasn’t a good approach to an album. Somehow with the rollout, Charli spent all her “decent” songs from the album and left the mediocre ones on here. On further note, some of the other lyrics on this album were very questionable, “we took a dive, in your mind”, and “I just wanna go real hard, pink diamond in the dark”, how does this even relate to quarantine?? Perfectly good scenarios in quarantine could’ve been used, from unemployment to fear. Quarantine isn’t just about parties for one and not giving a ****. Try again… Expand
  17. AverageJoey
    May 30, 2020
    0
    I didn’t understand when they said it was like comparing apples to apples, now I Finally Understand because someone said it was comparing trash to modern art to this album
  18. SpyGirl
    May 30, 2020
    0
    10/10 album, honestly I’ve never heard anything like it which is amazing, it’s nice to hear something other than basic drums and synths for a pop song, this pushes several boundaries and does a good job at it, it’s a little similar to the last album which makes it even better to create a long lasting fanbase
  19. alextrincado
    May 15, 2020
    0
    Es un total sin sentido de principio a fin, no existe ni correlación entre los elementos musicales, ni una composición, cero armonía. Tampoco se pide música docta que siga las reglas de la música, más bien, podría haber sido un álbum "sin armonía- armonioso", pero este en particular, hace pensar que ni siquiera es una producción pensada para ese objetivo. Solo puedo imaginar a Charli XCXEs un total sin sentido de principio a fin, no existe ni correlación entre los elementos musicales, ni una composición, cero armonía. Tampoco se pide música docta que siga las reglas de la música, más bien, podría haber sido un álbum "sin armonía- armonioso", pero este en particular, hace pensar que ni siquiera es una producción pensada para ese objetivo. Solo puedo imaginar a Charli XCX apretando cualquier cosa en sus sintetizadores y piano, creando frases y melodías al azar, no hay nada detrás, no hay dedicación. No hay nada "futurista" aquí, es un desorden desde el primer segundo.… Expand
  20. Jean_crybaby
    Jul 24, 2020
    0
    Letras ruins ,produção pedante ,mal executado ,vocais toscos ,sem sombra de dúvida o pior trabalho de 2020 ,um insulto inacreditável. Horrível e superestimado
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82

Universal acclaim - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Paste Magazine
    Oct 19, 2023
    85
    While how i’m feeling now is by no means Charli’s most genre-pushing work, nor an indication of the creative potential she has left, it will be remembered as a quintessential 2020 album—not just because of its unique recording constraints, but because of the passion, authenticity and work ethic interwoven in every fuzzy beat and every sprightly, lovelorn lilt of Charli’s most intimate vocal work to date.
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  2. The Observer (UK)
    Oct 19, 2023
    80
    If these songs are more off the cuff than before, nothing here sounds unprofessional. Some lyrics have not exactly been sweated-over – “I love you forever, even when we’re not together,” goes Forever – but they chime with people feeling acutely separated from loved ones.
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  3. The Quietus
    May 29, 2020
    80
    While not life-altering, how i’m feeling now is fun, fast and thoroughly listenable. It’s absorbing as a document from a strange period, and its diaristic, vloggy aspects provide an intriguing peek into artistry under pressure.
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