Charli XCX teases first quarantine album track "Forever"

On Monday (6 April), Charli XCX announced her new album How I'm Feeling Now - and revealed that she plans to release the first single "Forever" on Friday (10 April) or Monday (13 April).

How I'm Feeling Now will be created and released while in isolation during the coronavirus pandemic, and Charli XCX is sharing demos, instrumentals, and is open to collaborations and ideas during the process, which will all be shared with fans on social media.

Yesterday (7 April), Charli XCX shared a clip of the instrumental for "Forever" via Instagram.

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here’s the instrumental from the first song i’ve been working on for the album. it’s called forever. i’ll share a version with my vocals/topline ideas on my insta live in 3 hours

A post shared by Charli (@charli_xcx) on Apr 7, 2020 at 9:59am PDT

Hours later, Charli XCX played the chorus of the track on Instagram Live with vocals.

charli demoing the chorus for “forever” from her upcoming isolation album is the first time since quarantine started that i’ve felt excited and hopeful for the future @charli_xcx pic.twitter.com/3MHgyOP6P0

— troy (@troyreallyhard) April 7, 2020

Before signing off yesterday (7 April), she also shared an outro idea for the song, created by PC Music's A. G. Cook.

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@agcook404’s outro idea for “forever” swipe to see me writing lyrics for this part

A post shared by Charli (@charli_xcx) on Apr 7, 2020 at 2:44pm PDT