Charli XCX has described her forthcoming album as a "next-level pop record."
Speaking to DIY magazine, the 'I Love It' songwriter spoke about how she is more confident in her music than she has ever been before.
She said: "I feel like this record, of anything I've ever done, is most me.
"This feels right, everything about it feels perfect. I've grown in confidence. I know now that I can write a hit song, and I feel like I've come into my own. I just wanted to make a consistent but next-level pop record, and I didn't want to just make something that would be, like, a cool, safe record."
Expanding on what her, as yet untitled third studio album will sound like, Charli said that she has worked with Weezer's Rivers Cuomo, and that she wrote the record to promote female empowerment.
She explained: "I want them [her fans] to feel a sense of empowerment. I feel like this record is very feminine, and I remember when I first began writing it I wanted to write an album that I would've been obsessed with when I was 14."
In the interview, the 22-year-old also discussed the sound of the album, and the fate of the punk music she was rumoured to have been working on shortly after the release of her second album 'True Romance'.
She said: "That [punk] album wasn't scrapped or anything ... It morphed into a new thing, there are elements of punk on this pop record that I'm making. A couple of songs that were originally on that punk record are on the album.
"It hasn't gone away completely or anything, and I transferred a lot of it over to the main record."
Charli XCX's third studio album is expected to be released later this year.
