Charli XCX has admitted she was "jealous" of Lorde's Royals success.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the British singer has opened up about feeling jealous of fellow artists.
"Being jealous is somehow wrongly equated to not supporting women or not being a girl's girl, which isn't true," Charli, 31, told the publication. "You can, I think, experience envy and still be a good person who champions other women. Jealousy is just not a very sexy feeling, or a sexy characteristic really, is it?"
The Speed Drive hitmaker then admitted that Lorde, real name Ella Yelich-O'Connor, was the artist she was most jealous of earlier in her career.
"When Royals came out, I was super jealous of the success that that song got, and that Ella got," she confessed. "You piece all this stuff together in your brain, like: 'She was into my music. She had big hair; I had big hair. She wore black lipstick; I once wore black lipstick.' You create these parallels and think, 'Well, that could have been me.' But it couldn't have because we're completely different people."
Charli noted that although the music she and Lorde made was different, she still compared her work to that of the New Zealand singer.
"I wasn't making music that sounded anything like Royals," she aknowledged. "I think you just read what you want into it because you're feeling insecure about your own work."
The Von Dutch singer then shared that she and the Solar Power hitmaker, 27, are good friends.
"You get over it and then you try to figure out all the things that are unique about you and you pursue that, and then probably in five months' time you have a breakdown about something else," she quipped.
