Charli XCX has revealed she resolved a ‘tricky situation’ with fellow hitmaker Lorde by collaborating with her on their remix Girl, So Confusing.

Gracing the cover of Variety’s Hitmakers issue, the star, 32, admitted they were able to fix some ‘public misunderstandings’ by joinng forces on the track, after she feared that the song could sever their friendship.

She said: ‘For Girl, So Confusing, the second I wrote it I was like, ‘’I need Ella [Lorde] to be on a remix of this song.’’ But I didn’t know how to approach it because obviously it’s a tricky situation.

‘And when I finally did, she actually suggested, ‘’Maybe I should do a verse.’’ Within 24 or 48 hours she came back with that incredible verse, which made me really, really emotional.’

Charli previously shared fears that Lorde would ‘never speak to her again’ after failing to tell the Ribs singer about her song Girl, So Confusing.

She explained to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 that she didn’t tell her pal about the track, that is said to be about their relationship, until the day before its release.

Charli XCX has revealed she resolved a ‘tricky situation’ with fellow hitmaker Lorde by collaborating with her on their remix Girl, So Confusing

She said: ‘For Girl, So Confusing, the second I wrote it I was like, ‘’I need Ella [Lorde] to be on a remix of this song.’’ But I didn’t know how to approach it because obviously it’s a tricky situation’

‘I was ready for her to never speak to me again. That could have been an outcome.

In the track she sings: ‘Sometimes I think I might hate you / Maybe you just wanna be me and ‘People say we’re alike / They say we’ve got the same hair / We talk about making music / But I don’t know if it’s honest.’

The Boom Clap hitmaker confirmed the record touches on the ambivalent feelings she had toward the 27-year-old over their careers.

During her Variety interview, Charli also reflected on the success of her latest album Brat, which sparked a nationwide viral frenzy.

She said: ‘Usually when I’ve made a record, there is this transitional phase [after it’s recorded] where I’m thinking about how to present the music.

‘But with this one, I actually did that first—I was thinking about marketing before I was making the music.

‘I had the тιтle first, which was such a brief and a super-useful writing tool. It put boundaries on the songwriting, because immediately if I was writing a song with [longtime collaborators] A.G. Cook or Cirkut, it would just immediately be like, ‘’That’s not brat,’’ and we would move on and do something that was brat.’

‘The whole idea of being a brat is interesting to me, because why are people brats? Why do people act out and be difficult and misbehave?

During her Variety interview, Charli also reflected on the success of her latest album Brat, which sparked a nationwide viral frenzy

‘I think it’s because sometimes you’re overcompensating for insecurity or feeling uncomfortable, and I think that’s where the two fit together.’

On her album, Charlie also joined forces with Ariana Grande for a remix of their song Sympathy Is A Knife, and she admitted the Wicked star ‘gravitated’ towards the song.

‘She had a lot to say. We went back and forth on the lyrics, talking about all the knives that we both felt in this industry,’ she said.