Stereogum — Brat  is powerful. Charli XCX’s new album made TikTok dances fashionable again, inspired a dive bar in my neighborhood to serve a neon green shot special, and put to rest any animosity between her and Lorde. In a new interview with Billboard... more info

Stereogum — Kyle MacLachlan is bumpin’ that. The actor best known for his role in Twin Peaks has been showing his love for Charli XCX’s monumental new album Brat . He told Yahoo! that “Von Dutch” is the song of the summer, his TikTok is full of video... more info

Stereogum — Brat summer continues: Roskilde is going down in Denmark, and both Charli XCX and Caroline Polachek are on the lineup. Naturally, the “Von Dutch” singer invited the other pop star to her set, and the pair performed their and George Daniel’s... more info

Stereogum — It’s happening. A highlight of Charli XCX’s new album Brat is the conflicted banger “Girl, so confusing,” which seems to be about Lorde. Now, she’s unveiling a remix featuring the New Zealand pop star herself. more info

Stereogum — Over the past couple of years, TikTok personality Addison Rae has steadily been making a promising pivot to pop star, thanks in part to a co-sign from Charli XCX. In 2023, Rae shared a song called “2 die 4” that featured Charli; then, Rae went... more info

Stereogum — The excitement surrounding Charli XCX’s amazing new LP Brat is real, but it’s apparently not enough to give Charli a #1 album, either in the US or the UK. In the US, where Charli has always been more of a cult figure than a proper mainstream... more info

Stereogum — On Friday, Charli XCX cannonballed into the album-of-the-year conversation with the release of her glitchy, adventurous, extremely fun, messily emotional new album Brat . Today, Charli has expanded on Brat with a new deluxe edition, which has the... more info

Stereogum — Charli XCX’s feverishly anticipated new album Brat doesn’t even come out until tomorrow, at least in the US, but certain narratives are already emerging. On a couple of Brat tracks, Charli makes oblique references to some of her peers, and p... more info

Stereogum — In 2010, when she was “Charli XCX” only on flyers for underground London raves, Charlotte Aitchison sang Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time” as a performance art piece while studying at UCL’s Slade School of Fine Art. It’s hard n... more info

Stereogum — Charli XCX’s Boiler Room set back in March featured an A. G. Cook edit of “Everything Is Romantic,” a new song from the suddenly imminent new album Brat . Saturday at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Charli gave the standard version of the tra... more info