Symbolically, Charli XCX is using this term to describe the surgical dismantling of her own discography.
Listen to the leaked original demo of "Taxi" (recorded during these sessions) versus the Spike Stent mix. The demo sounds like a video game breaking. The Stent mix sounds like a Ferrari crashing into an arcade. He gave the chaos a chassis. It was pop music that had been put through a hydraulic press. Charli XCX XCX WORLD -Spike Stent- - This Act...
And every time you hear a hyperpop beat on the Top 40 radio in 2025, you are hearing a distant echo of that lost world. Symbolically, Charli XCX is using this term to
Mark "Spike" Stent, a legendary Grammy-winning mixing engineer, was hired in late 2016 to finalize the album. a legendary Grammy-winning mixing engineer