Fleetwood Mac legend Lindsey Buckingham has given his seal of approval to British pop star Charli XCX after watching her video for Von Dutch for the primary time.
This unanticipated growth befell throughout the launch of ‘Lindsey + Leelee React’, a brand new YouTube collection from Buckingham through which he and his 25-year-old daughter analyse music movies, a format which might be acquainted to followers of ’90s MTV stars Beavis and Butt-Head.
On the outset, Buckingham admits that he is not overly accustomed to Charli XCX’s musical output, although he does recall seeing her carry out on Saturday Evening Stay. Leelee Buckingham then asks her father if he has loved a “Brat Summer season’ – a reference to the Cambridge-born pop star’s zeitgeist-influencing 2024 album Brat – to which her father gamely replies: “The brattiest.”
Leelee then introduces the video by stating that Charli XCX – actual title Charlotte Aitchison – is “coming in fierce”, as she struts via Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. “She’s ripping off her pants within the airport” Leelee then observes, main her father to reply, “”Getting kinda saucy already. Jeez!”
“That is not place to get saucy,” Lindsey then observes sagely.
The 75-year-old guitarist is visibly shocked when the pop star seems to head-butt the digicam, leaving a smear on blood on the lens.
“Ouch!” he says, wincing, then seems to be shocked as soon as extra when Aitchison spits on the digicam.
When the pop star is filmed climbing on to the wing of a aircraft on the tarmac at Paris–Le Bourget Airport, Buckingham senior feedback, “I am unable to consider she received away with all this… I’m stunned the airport let her do all these items.”
“Nicely, she’s Charli XCX, she’s big now,” Leelee causes, main her father to remark that he thinks he’d be instructed “Get outta right here!” if he requested permission to carry out in such a way.
Summing up his response to the video, Lindsey Buckingham says, “I believed it was very entertaining. I imply, there was a lot occurring, and all within the context of a standard restrictive atmosphere, paranoid atmosphere, uptight atmosphere. That set the entire thing off very nicely, I believed.”
In conclusion, Leelee Buckingham asks her dad, ‘What does it actually imply? What’s she actually saying?”
“She’s saying, ‘Screw you!'” Lindsey replies.
Watch the extremely entertaining clip beneath:
