Charli XCX is not a girl, so confusing—she’s a girl, on the mend.
The “360” singer—who completed her joint Sweat tour with Troye Sivan in October—recently detailed the pain she now suffers from due to her onstage antics.
“I find the stage these days to be a very angry place for me,” she told Variety in an interview published Dec. 4. “I’ve done a lot of physical damage to my body from performing and I’m often in a lot of pain when I perform.”
In fact, Charli (real name Charlotte Emma Aitchison) shared she’s rocked so hard that she’s injured herself, adding, “Genuinely, physically I have nerve damage in my neck from things that I’ve done on the stage.”
But the “Sympathy is a knife” artist—whose Brat album is nominated for seven Grammys, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year—also noted that giving her all on stage is part of her process.
“For me to give a performance that I feel is good enough,” the 32-year-old continued, “I have to really physically throw myself around and that makes me very upset when I do it. So, it’s kind of this hellhole.”
“But being with Troye just softens that quite a lot,” she added, “and a lot of other people on the tour just made me feel a lot lighter.”
In fact, Charli—who has collaborated with the “Rush” singer on multiple songs, including “1999” and “talk talk”—credits her and Troye’s friendship with helping her get through their recent tour following the success of her “brat summer.”
“I find touring really hard emotionally,” she explained, “and being with Troye just made that a lot easier and less of an emotional battle for me.”
“I think our cute off days actually were probably my most fun memory,” she said. “We became, actually, quite a nice little family on that tour.”
Read on to see who else is nominated for the 2025 Grammys.
SURPRISE: Beyoncé
The “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer is having a real life boogie and a real life hoedown with her 11 nominations for Cowboy Carter. After being shut out of the 2024 Country Music Awards, she led the pack with her nods.
Although it shouldn’t be a surprise since it the album did break several streaming records and debuted at No. 1 on Billboard Top 200 in March.
SNUB: Ariana Grande
Eternal Sunshine might’ve been a wickedly good album, but the "7 Rings" singer was left out of the Big Four categories, which includes Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year. However, she did earn nominations in Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Dance Pop Recording.
SNUB: Jack Antonoff
While Taylor Swift’s frequent collaborator was recognized by the Grammys this year, he was left out of the coveted Producer of the Year category.
SNUB: Dua Lipa
The pop singer, who has three wins and 10 nominations under her belt, didn’t receive any nominations despite releasing her album Radical Optimism early this year, which included the earworm tune “Houdini.” The album also debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart.
SURPRISE: André 3000
With fully instrumental albums rarely nominated in the Album of the Year category and with a stacked list including Beyoncé, Taylor, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX and Chappell Roan, his New Blue Sun came as a happy surprise.
SURPRISE: Jimmy Carter
The former president, who has been in hospice care since February 2023, received his ninth Grammy nomination in the Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording category for Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration. The 100-year-old, the longest-living President in U.S. history, has won three overall, including in 2019 for Best Spoken Word Album for Faith - A Journey For All.
SNUB: Hozier
Although “Too Sweet” was the singer’s first No. 1 hit on the Hot 100 and thus, became the first Irish artist to top the chart since Sinéad O’Connor, it didn’t earn a spot on either Song of the Year or Record of the Year.
SURPRISE: The Beatles
It was a blast from the past when the beloved band was nominated for Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance for their song “Now and Then.” Although first written as a solo demo by John Lennon in 1977, it wasn’t released until nearly 50 years later by his bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr (and George Harrison posthumously with guitar tracks).