On April 6, 2020 Charli XCX held a Zoom conference to make an announcement after blacking out her social media. On May 15th, she’ll release an album, currently under the working title “How I’m Feeling Now.”
ZOOM CODE JOIN ME NOW ANGELS 181020355
— Charli (@charli_xcx) April 6, 2020
Since then, things have happened rapidly. She’s teased screenshots of texts with AG Cook, Dylan Brady and others; she’s played snippets of the first upcoming track “Forever” out April 9; and has invited fans to be a part of the album art creation. She asked fans to vote on a series of photos to be used for the first album art. According to her instagram post, she’ll be collaborating with Seth Bogart, Caroline Polachek, and Regards Coupables
Stan Twitter has been ablaze, crafting theories, memes about releasing Taxi, and generally being excited. Twitter use bodyofmyown has pieced together a credible theory that HIFN was intended to be XCX5 (in the lingo of stan twitter…)
So this means XCX5 (the album that was supposed to be the second album of the year) is coming before XCX4 the one she’d been working on and was about to finish … God I really i hope I make sense right now https://t.co/mWK2PXOq9T
— ཌབསཕངད (@bodyofmyown) April 7, 2020