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"    Photo: Jesse Jenkins   To say Charli XCX was busy last week at South By Southwest would be doing little justice to the British electro-pop singer&amp;#039;s insatiable work ethic. That&amp;#039;s because she performed 10 shows in seven days. Yes, it&amp;#039;s safe to say the 20-year-old, born Charlotte Aitchison, whose stage name was derived from her former MSN Messenger handle, Kiss Charli Kiss, was all over Austin this year. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s just such an intense week,&amp;quot; she said, looking back. &amp;quot;Everything&amp;#039;s a blur\u2014which is probably a good thing. I kind of lost my mind.&amp;quot; Lucky for us she captured her SXSW experience via an intimate video diary, which you can now watch below exclusively on ELLE.com. In the clip, the singer, who recently opened shows for Coldplay and has a forthcoming debut album True Romance being released by IAMSOUND on April 16, performs her dance-infused cuts onstage and finds those rare moments of relaxation among an otherwise manic week.   The highlight of Charli&amp;#039;s time in Texas? &amp;quot;Definitely seeing Haim,&amp;quot; she says of the L.A. sisterly rock trio. &amp;quot;Those girls are wild. They can rock.&amp;quot;       \u202C Keep up to date with the latest culture news. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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