Charli XCX’s follow-up is a stunning in-the-moment reappraisal of her wild Brat summer.
Pity anyone who prematurely sounded the end of Brat summer. They clearly didn’t contemplate what Charli XCX could do with a remix album.
As its title suggests, this isn’t the sort of throwaway deluxe treatment that’s become standard in the streaming era, those cynical ploys to delay an album’s dwindling sunset.
Brutally honest but it’s savvy self-mythologising too, enforcing Charli’s key conflict: that push-pull complexity that’s been central to her pop-making muse.might’ve been an unprecedented smash for the artist, but she has previously felt the mainstream’s embrace . She had it in herthat became her most commercially successful release and her debut number one in Australia. After both times, Charli retreated to the underground, decrying major label mechanics and the emptiness of mainstream fame.
: “It’s a knife when you’re so pretty they think it must be fake/ it’s a knife when they dissect your body on the front page,” she sings, getting some fluttery adlibs off amid the grinding synths. Matty Healy of the 1975, who’s been anonymous since being dragged into Taylor Swift’swith English producer Jon Hopkins: “Rot in my house in L.A., thinking of giving up everything/ Now I’m watching what I say, these interviews are so serious,” he sings.
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