{"id":120528,"date":"2024-12-16T12:07:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/12\/16\/how-charli-xcx-kept-the-brat-party-going-all-year-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T12:07:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:07:16","slug":"how-charli-xcx-kept-the-brat-party-going-all-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/12\/16\/how-charli-xcx-kept-the-brat-party-going-all-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Charli xcx Kept the \u2018brat\u2019 Party Going All\u00a0Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\u201cThe reason I love electronic music and clubs and DJs so much is\u00a0that everything is endless,\u201d \u00adCharli\u00a0xcx<\/a> told Billboard<\/em> in her July cover story<\/a>. Fittingly, the veteran pop artist got her start in London\u2019s rave scene over a decade ago and, across five albums, developed a faithful cult following. But it was her sixth album, brat<\/em>, and its yearlong rollout, that shifted perception \u2014 and expanded her fandom.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeginning with her record-breaking Boiler Room warehouse set in February, Charli let demand slowly build before the June release of brat<\/em>, which was met with critical acclaim and became her highest-charting title on the Billboard\u00a0200<\/a>, entering at No.\u00a03 and collecting 82,000 equivalent album units in its first week, according to Luminate. In the following months, the internet deemed the season \u201cBrat Summer\u201d as Charli became even more omnipresent and brat started to shape-shift.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSoon after brat<\/em>\u2019s release, Charli dropped a surprise remix of standout song \u201cGirl, so confusing\u201d featuring its subject: Lorde. The drop hinted at more to come, and in August the \u201cGuess\u201d<\/a> remix featuring Billie Eilish arrived \u2014 and soon became the highest-charting song from brat<\/em>, peaking at No.\u00a012 on the Billboard Hot\u00a0100<\/a>. Brat Summer soon turned into Brat Fall with the September kickoff of her co-headlining Sweat Tour with Troye Sivan, during which Charli released a full-fledged remix album titled Brat and it\u2019s completely different but also still brat<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tEvery song was reimagined and featured at least one special guest, including Robyn and Yung Lean (\u201c360\u201d<\/a>), Ariana Grande (\u201cSympathy Is a Knife\u201d<\/a>), Bon Iver (\u201cI\u00a0Think About It All the Time\u201d<\/a>) and Sivan on \u201cTalk Talk,\u201d<\/a> which closed each night of their tour. To celebrate the release of the remix album, a larger-than-life \u201csonic sculpture\u201d was unveiled at New York\u2019s open-air Storm King Art Center, juxtaposing its lime green walls against the browning colors of the surrounding grass and trees.<\/p>\n

\n\tBy November, brat earned Charli seven Grammy nominations \u2014 including for album and record of the year (\u201c360\u201d) \u2014 and she ended the month by pulling double duty as host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live<\/em>. She closed the year by announcing a few 2025 solo arena dates, as well as a headlining set at Primavera Sound in Barcelona and a main-stage booking at Coachella. The word \u201cbrat\u201d was even named word of the year by the Collins English Dictionary.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for what\u2019s still ahead, her management team reveals that all of 2025 is already planned out. For an artist like Charli, who has \u201calways operated three steps ahead,\u201d as Twiggy Rowley, a member of her management team, previously told Billboard<\/em>, the blueprints for Brat Winter and Brat Spring have indeed been laid \u2014 and will lead right back to where it all began, with no end in sight. Just as Charli always wanted.<\/p>\n

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