Brat is an exposing, complex and vulnerable album about early 30s womanhood - not a Gen-Z lifestyle trend
Emily BootleDriving really fast, smoking cigarettes, eating Haribo Tangfastics, hanging out with your mates, not wearing a bra, white strappy tops, Diet Coke, the colour green, and cocaine. I’ve seen all of these things included on round-ups of what, exactly, constitutes a “brat summer” – the 2024 trend inspired by Charli XCX’s hit album, it seems brat summer is inescapable – and unlike other internet fads such as hot girl summer or rat girl summer, theas a party album, and it is one.
“I Might Say Something Stupid” is a scene of giving yourself pep talks at a party where you feel awkward and out of place. “So I” is a tragic ode to, the hyperpop pioneer and mentor to XCX, who died in 2021. “Girl, So Confusing” is about female rivalry, annoyance, and reconciliation . “I think about it all the time” is about the anxiety many women in their early 30s face about the decision to have children.’s rave tracks harness the juxtaposition of music and feeling to full effect.
Charli is back to being a “365 party girl”, looking hot, wiping a different kind of white powder off her nose and b-b-b-bumpin’ that beat. Its recollection of the opening track feels wistful and nostalgic; its minor chords are almost tragic. “365” doesn’t feel like an empowering reclamation of messy pleasure, it feels like temporarily pushing the pain away until it resurfaces – which, whatever your poison, is something we can all relate to.
We are, all things considered, “behind” our forebears: financially stunted by the recession and often unable to settle down, in the traditional sense, with property and a family. Add to that two years of Covid in our 20s, and you’ll find a demographic living in a kind of perpetual adolescence – renting, dating and partying way into the years in which we traditionally would have become responsible adults .
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