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“No Shade And Only Love”: Charli XCX Clarifies Taylor Swift Comments After Fans Lose Their Shit

Taylor Swift fans did not appreciate being compared to a bunch of "5-year-olds".

Charli XCX Taylor Swift tour 2019 photo

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Charli XCX has been forced to clarify recent comments she made about her time as support on Taylor Swift’s tour, after Swift fans swarmed her social media accounts deeming her ‘cancelled.’

In an interview with Pitchfork, XCX was discussing her time as a support act on the Reputation tour in 2018, saying that she was “very grateful” to Swift for the opportunity, but “as an artist, it kind of felt like I was getting up on stage and waving to five-year-olds.”

Needless to say, this didn’t impress Taylor stans:

Suddenly facing a wall of Swiftie fury, Charli XCX hastily released a statement across her socials, writing that there is “there is absolutely no shade and only love” between her and Swift.

“As I say in the article and have said many times before, I am extremely grateful to Taylor for inviting me to open for her,” she wrote. “She’s one of the biggest artists of my generation and the ‘Reputation’ tour was one of the biggest tours in history.

“In the printed version of this much wider conversation my answers about this tour were boiled down into one kind of weird sentence — leading up to that tour I’d been playing a tonne of 18+ shows and so to be on stage in front of all ages was new to me and made me approach my performances with a whole new kind of energy.”

Read her full statement below.

“I think opening for Taylor was just a really good opportunity for me to travel in America and play to a load of new people,” Charli told Music Junkee earlier in the year . “And a load of new people who probably knew a lot of the songs that I was playing, but maybe didn’t necessarily know that I was the person who was singing them. It was cool for that purpose and to share the stage with two women who I really admire.

“I think everybody enjoys their own shows more than opening for someone, and that’s no disrespect to the headliner. I think you would be lying if you said you preferred playing other people’s shows. The audience are there to see you at your own show. They know your personality. They know your music. They are there to hear it.”

Charli will be in Sydney next Wednesday, August 14, playing a secret show ahead of the release of her new album Charli. For more details, head here.