Click

Theron Thomas

Dylan Brady

A. G. Cook

Umru

Dylan Brady

## Audio

"**Click**" is the fifth track on Charli XCX's third studio album, "*Charli*". It features German singer Kim Petras and Estonian rapper Tommy Cash.

## Background

This is the second collaboration between Charli XCX and each of the featured artists. The previous song with Tommy Cash is "Delicious", the seventh track from Charli's fourth mixtape, "Pop 2", released in 2017; while the one with Kim Petras is the eighth track from the same mixtape, "Unlock It", which also features South Korean rapper Jay Park.

Charli started to record the song at Umru's apartment with him at night in early 2019, and then took it to Los Angeles, where she sent the song to Kim Petras and Tommy Cash so they could send her their verses. Charli remade her vocals for the song later because she wasn't satisfied enough with her verse compared to the other featured artists.

The song was revealed in June 2019 along the whole tracklist, art and title of the album. In July Charli posted a 15-second snippet of the song to her Insta-stories, with Kim Petras dancing to the song in her private album listening party. Later in August Charli was interviewed by Pitchfork, were the editor described Click as "riotous" and that it ends with "a beat that sounds like monster trucks having sex.". That month as well, Charli described click as "iconic" on Twitter. On September 12th, one day before the album release Charli posted two other short snippets of the song.

## Theme

Charli describes the song as "Charli on crack" and an iconic "Vroom Vroom part 2".

## Lyrics

[Chorus: Charli XCX]

Get what I want like "click"

They want a pic like "click"

Cheers with the glass like "click"

Cash register goes "click"

You can't fuck with my clique (Clique)

Strut my stuff on the strip

Prospects all in the whip

Pull up and vroom, oh shit

Charli's up in this bitch

Charli's up in this sitch

Get what I want like "click"

They want a pic like "click"

Cheers with the glass like "click"

Cash register goes "click"

You can't fuck with my clique (Clique)

Strut my stuff on the strip

Prospects all in the whip

Pull up and vroom, oh shit

Charli's up in this bitch

Yeah, Charli's up in this

[Verse 1: Charli XCX]

Pull up and we drippin' in gold

The king of my clique when I roll

Hit Kim 'cause she cute on my phone

Hit Tommy, he know how to ball

We fly off first class to Moscow

I'm zoomin' my way 'round the globe (Zoom)

Don't care 'bout the records you sold

Cosign if you did it alone (Yeah)

I'm so 20/20 with my vision

20/20 with precision, I'm so legit

I'm so 2020, when I wanna go pop

I'll pop, I got them hits

Pick the research, get the camera

Click it on, baby, come on, watch me dip

Watch me dip with my clique, ooh-ooh

Watch me dip with my, yeah

[Chorus: Charli XCX]

Get what I want like "click"

They want a pic like "click"

Cheers with the glass like "click"

Cash register goes "click"

You can't fuck with my clique

Strut my stuff on the strip

Prospects all in the whip

Pull up and vroom, oh shit

Charli's up in this bitch

Charli's up in this si—

[Verse 2: Kim Petras]

Woo-ah

Bunch of bad bitches in my clique, we on a roll, yeah

Kim Possible up in this bitch, now watch me go off

Bust it down, down, down, look at my wrist, I'm such a show off

Designer everything, Versace, Louis, Goyard

First they want a check, first they send the Wraith

Lookin' like a safe, diamonds in your face

Skinny in the waist, make him eat the cake

Charli with me, babe, Charli with me, babe

Rock like full of bass, you get to LA

Cookie super sweet, put it on a tray

Got an appetite, come and clean the plate

You heard what I say, you heard what I say, yeah

I'm next level, so legit with all my clique, clique, clique, yeah

Yeah, all you bitches fuckin' wish you had this clique, yeah

[Chorus: Kim Petras & Tommy Cash]

I get what I want like "click"

They want a pic like "click"

Cheers with the glass like "click"

Cash register goes "click"

You can't fuck with my clique

Strut my stuff on the strip

Prospects all in the whip

Pull up and vroom, oh shit

Charli's up in this bitch (Oh)

Kim is up in this bitch

[Verse 3: Tommy Cash]

I'm hard like Sudoku (Sudoku), expensive like Coco (Oh)

If no pay, I won't go (Won't go), don't fuck with a broke ho (Oh)

Tommy goin' loco (Loco, yeah), look at the rich hobo (Ching-ching)

Babushka do go-go (Yeah), solo, I GoPro (Du-du-du-du)

Macintosh and Big Mac, duck

No cockblock around this block

Please don't, doors unlocked like I don't really give a fuck

Flip the check, jump out dat-dat

For my clique, let me xэштег

We get lit, but we never need a lot

Don't like fake class

[Bridge: Charli XCX]

Mmm (Charli)

Mmm, oh, mmm (It's Charli)

[Chorus: Charli XCX]

Get what I want like "click"

They want a pic like "click"

Cheers with the glass like "click"

Cash register goes "click"

You can't fuck with my clique

Strut my stuff on the strip

Prospects all in the whip

Pull up and vroom, oh shit

Charli's up in this bitch

Charli's up in this

## General information

### Songwriter(s)

Charlotte Aitchison • Slayyyter • Dylan Brady •Alexander Guy Cook • Jaan Rothenberg • Theron Thomas

### Producer(s)

A. G. Cook • Dylan Brady • umruÖ • Charli XCX (exec.)

In October 11th of 2019. Charli released a remix of the song replacing Tommy Cash with singer Slayyyter only available on United Kingdom. Then she released the song worldwide in October 14th.

The idea for this remix was proposed by a fan during a Twitter Q&A, and Slayyyter (who was touring with Charli at the time) said she was down for it.

### Slayyyter's Verse

[Verse 3: Slayyyter]

You can't sit with my clique

'Cause we don't know who you is

I am so thiccy thicc

These bitches are jealous

You're a trick, little bitch

Watch me empty out the clip

Cliqué cliqué suck a diqué

My girls all just hit a lick

Lil Kimmy got the sauce

And Charli got the drip

If Slayyyter on the track

Then you know she talkin' shit

I won't fuck with a scrub

But I love a bad bitch

I think this dude is dumb

Change the channel like "click"

[Bridge: Slayyyter]

Ain't nobody fuckin' with my clique

Like a disease y'know we make these bitches sick (Charli)

Ain't nobody fuckin' with my clique

Yeah

## Trivia

* Charli references her single “Vroom Vroom” from her 2016 EP of the same name on the song.
* “Хэштег” is “hashtag” in Russian.
* Kim Petras' verse on the song is Charli XCX's favorite moment of the album. She calls it the equivalent of Nicki Minaj's verse on "Monster" by Kanye West.
* The track "C2.0", included on Charli XCX's album "How I'm Feeling Now", is a new version of "Click".

## References

1. ↑ (Fader) Track by Track Interview
2. ↑ https://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/charli-xcx-interview/
3. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/xcxheads/duplicates/cho6kp/kim\_petras\_dancing\_to\_click\_at\_charlis\_private/