The pop star’s follow-up to Brat finally has a release date and a cover—with three unlikely icons
do you follow up a record that became so singularly influential? It’s not just that the songs went viral with the requisite TikTok dances ; it’s that everything else about it became an object to deconstruct and analyze.
Discussions about the meaning of the word” on a tweet, and the cover itself, with its modernized take on the Arial Narrow font against a neon-lime-green background, was instant fodder for parodies and commercial appropriations. The distancing began this summer, when Charli teased she was leaving behind dance music and was going to put out “rock music” instead.
While rumors of the dance floor’s death were greatly exaggerated, Charlirelease a song called “Rock Music” with a ’90s-inspired black-and-white video that summarized all manner of rock clichés: cigarettes, walking around metropolitan cities, rowdy young boys moshing. She followed it up with “SS26,” a moody, existential track whose lyrics, “When the world is gonna end, no hope for any of it / Yeah, we’re walkin’ on a runway that goes straight to hell,” were brought to life in a music video that opens with the famous French editor Carine Roitfeld declaring, “Fashion won’t save us,” and ends with models walking off a runway and into a black abyss.
have made him at least brat-adjacent, her singling out of Cale, whose experimental music career is likely a bit unknown to scores of Charli’s fans . Cale’s presence works as a signal that although Charli loves clothes and loves to party and have a good time, she isabout her music.
Already, some on the internet are talking about the “random men” on the cover, so perhaps it is more important than ever that Charli has decided to open the schools with her record cover and give the children a proper cultural education. So goodbye, brat summer; this summer we’ll be eating, praying, loving. This summer we’ll be living, laughing, loving. This summer we’ll be
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