Daniela Parada, Charli xcx’s personal assistant, leads me through a set of double doors into a cavernous warehouse space. The first thing I see is a hulking black edifice—a mass of black cages formed into a giant pyramid, topped with a gigantic woofer. Charli and her team are here preparing for her biggest performance to date: A headline slot at Lollapalooza for 100,000 people, a week after the release of her eighth album, Music, Fashion, Film. Henry RedcliffeThe show, which precedes the Music, Fashion, Film arena tour, is also Charli’s largest production, complete with a live band, 20 dancers, and enough pyro to burn down Music Row. “This show is a lot more filmic, I suppose,” Charli tells me later, smoking a Capri as the sun sets.