United Kingdom, Dec. 2 -- Charli xcx "never felt accepted" because of her mixed-race background.

The 33-year-old singer was raised in England by her Indian mother and Scottish father and explained that her feelings of being an outsider contributed to the making of last year's hit album Brat.

In conversation with Swedish rapper Yung Lean for Dazed magazine, Charli said: "I never felt accepted where I went, whether that was in school for being half-Indian and not blonde, or not fully relating to my Indian self because I was half-white."

The Apple hitmaker added: "Then with music, being outside of the mainstream and wanting to be in that world, but also really wanting to reject it.

"It created this concoction that allowed me to (make Bra...