Charli XCX has described seeing music in colors since she was a child, and has given interviewers track-by-track examples from her own records, describing songs as black, pink, or purple worlds she writes inside. Her visual output, from artwork to the saturated staging of her tours, tracks the palettes she describes.
Her accounts are consistent across years and outlets, if less exhaustively detailed than Billie Eilish’s or Pharrell’s. She frames the trait as simply how songwriting arrives: the color is part of the idea.
She sits in the self-described tier on repeated firsthand testimony, and her case adds a useful data point that pop’s most visually deliberate artists often report the visuals starting inside the sound.