Charli XCX’s 2024 album ‘Brat’ introduced her a brand new viewers that didn’t all the time perceive her, the singer has shared.
‘Brat’ grew to become Charli’s most profitable album, even spawning the ‘Brat’ summer season cultural phenomenon. And with the brand new success got here extra eyes on her, one thing that impressed her new mockumentary, The Second.
Charli, actual identify Charlotte Aitchison, instructed Billboard in a video interview on Monday (February 2) that the Aidan Zamiri-directed movie, by which she performs a fictionalised model of herself, was impressed by the rise in fame and publicity ‘Brat’ prompted.
“I’d been this comparatively area of interest artist, after which had abruptly been opened as much as this enormous new viewers, a few of whom actually related with me, a few of whom solely related with points of me, a few of whom preferred me, however didn’t actually get me,” she stated. “How a lot you’re beneath scrutiny, within the highlight, being listened to, watched, is a very attention-grabbing factor. It made me so conscious about how onerous that transition may be.”
They filmed the film over the course of 29 days, Charli explaining: “Each single weekend, we might simply exit and get together. Generally Aidan would simply blast The Prodigy while they had been organising a shot.”
‘Brat’ was launched in June 2024, two years after Charli’s earlier album ‘Crash’, and it topped the charts in Australia, Eire, New Zealand and her native UK, in addition to reaching Quantity Three within the US. Per evaluation aggregator Metacritic, it grew to become the highest-rated album of 2024 and is at present the Fifteenth-highest-rated of all time.
NME named ‘Brat’ one of the best album of 2024 and gave it a four-star evaluation upon its launch, writing: “Rising pains, grief and aching doubts come alongside self-confidence, celebration and the information of the place XCX holds within the musical panorama – certainly, she kicks off ‘360’ with the realizing: ‘I went my very own means and I made it / I’m your favorite reference child’. With ‘Brat’, XCX demonstrates that going her personal means will all the time sound fairly good.”
‘Brat’ was adopted by a deluxe version with three further tracks, ‘Brat And It’s The Similar However There’s Three Extra Songs So It’s Not’ after which the remix album ‘Brat and It’s Fully Totally different However Additionally Nonetheless Brat’.
In April 2025, Charli confirmed the top of ‘Brat’ summer season, and she’s been “feeling extra impressed by movie than by music” in latest months. Certainly, forward of The Second‘s premiere, she stated she’s “actually wanting ‘Brat’ to cease”.
In addition to engaged on The Second, her soundtrack album for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights comes out on February 13. To date, she’s shared three songs from the album: ‘Home’, that includes John Cale of The Velvet Underground, ‘Chains Of Love’ and ‘Wall Of Sound’. Final week, she revealed the total tracklist for the primary time, and it features a new collaboration with Sky Ferreira.
She was lately requested about the opportunity of recording a James Bond theme, too, however stated she doesn’t assume she’s “constructed” for it. Throughout an look on The Julia Cunningham Present, she stated: “I believe I most likely sing with an excessive amount of AutoTune to do a James Bond,” earlier than including, “By no means say by no means. I’m open to it in the event that they need to name me, which they gained’t.”
