Marina “Cried Listening” by Charli XCX, Lorde Heal on “Girl, So Confusing”

As provided by Charli XCX's collaboration with Lorde on a remix version of 'Girl, so confusing' has indeed sent the 'internet into a frenzy'. And it also touched on one of Charli's early friends, Marina, who shared that she teared up while listening to the two singers work through their differences on the track.

“This is beautiful. I just cried listening to it,” Marina wrote on X Friday. “It's so brave of people to be dealing with this and so healing to hear. Congrats on an iconic album @charli_xcx.”

Soon after, Charli XCX responded to the tweet, writing, “Aaaah marina!! tumblr girls rise up!” In response, Marina wrote: “I'm crying <3 <3 <3."

On “Girl, so confusing,” Charli sings about her insecurities surrounding her “awkward” relationship with Lorde, with whom she doesn't “have much in common” other than two of the internet's favorite artists. “We talk about making music/ But I don't know if it's sincere,” sings Charli.

The exchange between Marina and Charli also appears to capture the couple publicly burying the hatchet after a row in 2016 over a photo shoot. At the time, Marina wrote, “That FROOT looks familiar,” a phrase that has now become a meme among stan groups for both artists, under a photo that resembled Marina's promotional photos for Frootwhich was down last year.

At the time, Marina followed up on the comment by writing on Twitter: “The image is artistic property. Respect your fellow artists.” In response, Charli issued a statement defending herself about the photo and her collaboration with the same photographer as Marina: “I'm not here to reproduce or 'steal' art… What's the point of that?”

Before their clash, the pair worked together on a song called “Just Desserts” in 2013 that was never officially released but is available on the couple's YouTube channels. Charli also opened for Marina on the Lonely Hearts Club tour that year.

Last year, on her @360_brat Instagram, Charli replied to a comment and shared that the pair were not friends, but that she felt “honestly very hurt, upset and confused” by Marina's decision to call her out on social media at the time.

“I just felt like he knew he was sending people out to 'get' me on the internet and as someone I looked up to, I thought it was a really bad thing to do at the time,” Charlie wrote. “Now I'm like lol the whole thing is as funny as if there was a beef over lemons.”

Because of the fruit-related history, fans joked on Friday X that the pair of artists should, like Charli and Lorde, “work things out” on a remix of Charli's song “Apple.” Marina also followed Charli on social media after the sweet exchange.

Marina is preparing to release a book of poetry titled Eat the world in October and said Rolling rock In April he was writing new music but hadn't “started producing anything yet”.

“The book gave me the space to be able to explore things that I wasn't happy about myself in a way that I just don't think I could have with music,” she said.