Charli XCX’s Brat Summer Isn’t Over Yet
After all, it’s not a season: it’s a philosophy of life. When Charli XCX started working on her album, two years ago, she used the word “brat” as a starting point to represent the cheeky attitude that he wanted to characterize each song. In the end that “Brat” became much more than a synonym for “bad girl” or “naughty girl”, a term that carries with it a sort of ode to emancipation on various fronts and which allowed the success of the album with the acid green cover – or rather, “Brat” green – to go from being a musical phenomenon to a cultural and lifestyle phenomenon, capable of influencing even the US presidential campaign, with the “Kamala is brat” tweeted by the British singer-songwriter officially becoming a slogan for the Democratic candidate.
.And since it’s not a season, “Brat summer” won’t end with the end of summer.. That acid green will continue to monopolize social media – and the charts – for a long time. So it seems. Now it’s official: On October 11, Charli XCX will release a new version of the album that made her a pop star in stores and on streaming platformsironically titled “Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat”. Inside there will be duets with – among others – Madonna, Dua Lipa and Rosalia.
The Queen of Pop Meets the Suburban Bad Girl
That something was cooking could be sensed from the series of remixes of songs originally included in “Brat” published in recent weeks by the singer-songwriter together with colleagues such as Robyn and Yung Lean (“360”), Lorde (“Girl, so confusing”), Billie Eilish (“Guess”) and Troy Sivan (“Talk talk”). The full details of the operation have been revealed in these hours. With the Queen of Pop, the Princess of Essex has recorded a new version of “Club classics”the song with which in “Brat” Charlotte Emma Aitchison – this is the real name of the 31-year-old British singer-songwriter – celebrated her roots and her nights at the disco as a suburban bad girl: “When I go to the clubs I only want to hear the classics / I want to dance to my songs and those of A.
G.”, he sings, quoting AG Cook, a British musician born in 1990 who was struck by electronic music, at his side since day zero. Thinking about it now, it is in fact .a piece worthy of the Madonna of her early days, the one who landed in the Lower East Side of New York at 20 years old “without money, without food, without a home”and which found its natural habitat in the clubs of the Big Apple. Rosalía to appear in new version of “Everything is romantic”: to unite her with Charli XCX is The Guinchreal name Pablo Díaz-Reixa, the Spanish producer who shaped the Catalan pop star’s sound and who Charli wanted at her side in “Brat”. Dua Lipa will instead duet with her colleague in “I Think about it all the time” and it will be interesting to hear how Charli XCX’s cheeky and unabashed way of experiencing club culture will marry with the posher and cooler one, if you like, of the voice in “Be the one”.
Other guests include Kesha, for a total of 34 tracks.
Madonna, Rosalía and Dua Lipa are just the biggest names on the list. But you will also be surprised by the other duets, from the one with Kesha on the new version of “Sympathy is a Knife” to the one with Grimes on “B2b”, passing through the one with Caroline Polachek in “Apple”. In physical format, “Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat” will be released in a double CD version: the first will contain a total of 16 tracks between duets and remixes, the second will instead contain the 15 songs originally included in the original edition and the three bonus tracks released later, “Hello goodbye”, “Guess” and “Spring breakers”.
Even Hollywood Becomes “Brat”
Not just music, though. Now that she has established herself as one of the most influential artists of her generation, Charli XCX is aiming to conquer showbiz in all its forms.. “It might be nice if I stopped making music after ‘Brat.’ I’m thinking about it, because I want to act now. I can’t see past ‘Brat,’ but I enjoy it,” she said this summer, in the midst of her record’s success. She couldn’t reveal it, but she had already signed on for a couple of roles, one in “Faces of death” (remake of the 70s horror film of the same name, with Dacre Montgomery and Barbie Ferreira) by Daniel Goldhaber and the one in “I want your sex” (next to Olivia Wilde) by
Gregg Arakiamong the directors of “Dahmer”, the series about the serial killer whose story shocked the United States and the entire world between the late 70s and the 80s. For the record: the film will be about “sex, obsession, power, betrayal and murder”. A third commitment has been added to the two, at the cinema. Charli XCX will also be in the cast of “100 nights of Hero”, an adaptation of Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel queel, set in the Middle Ages and inspired by “One Thousand and One Nights”. According to Deadline, the cast will also include Nicholas Galitzine (already seen with Anne Hathaway in “The Idea of You”), Emma Corrin (seen in “Deadpool & Wolverine” alongside Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds) and Maika Monroe (“Longlegs”, the 2024 Hollywood horror revelation). So Charli is getting ready to dye Hollywood her “brat” green too.
