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Dancing the hour away at Charli XCX’s Boiler Room set.

“I’m on the list but…” Elsewhere, friends who just met are Venn diagramming their musical interests, finding common ground between Carly Rae Jepsen and Erika de Casier. Her music is both a bratty sugar rush and a vast, electronic expanse, and she’s helped usher in the current era of what the New York Times calls pop’s middle class. Her set includes a slew of hits, both from Charli’s own catalog (“Vroom Vroom,” her upcoming single “Von Dutch”) and Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money.” She also plays a few unreleased songs, including “Get Into It (Spring Breakers).” Other It Girls soon join her: Julia Fox inaudibly performs a new song, and Addison Rae, the TikToker turned half-ironically stanned pop star dances on the booth to “2 Die 4,” which gets the loudest reception of the night

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