I’m still not sure if we seemed particularly enthusiastic or if we were just being typecast as white twinks (XCX’s target demographic), but either way, the answer was a resounding yes, followed by the least graceful entrance onto a stage the Basement East has ever seen. “Do you know the Charli verse?” she’d shouted in my and my roommate’s faces as the song’s glitchy trap-infused refrain blasted all around us. I was more than a little drunk when Canadian underground rapper Tommy Genesis pulled me on stage to rap Charli XCX’s verse on her “100 Bad.” Kim Petras performing at Nashville Pride, photo by Taylor Lomax.