It’s laborious to think about how anybody may observe up the success and cultural dominance of Charli xcx‘s Brat. However in a brand new interview, the British pop star stated that she’s sidestepping that concern altogether.
Talking to Culted on the Cannes Worldwide Movie Pageant, Charli opened up in regards to the “stress” to prime her critically acclaimed sixth studio album in a chunk printed Tuesday (Could 20). “I don’t actually really feel the stress to create one other report like Brat, as a result of after I was making it, though I actually believed in it and completely knew what I needed to do with it, I had no thought how it might be obtained,” she started.
“I used to be actually doing it for myself and advertising and marketing it in the way in which I needed to for myself, however I had no clue that folks would type of hook up with it in the way in which that they did,” she continued. “So yeah, I don’t actually really feel the stress, as a result of I really feel which you can by no means actually do the identical factor twice, and my subsequent report will in all probability be a flop which I’m down for to be trustworthy.”
Launched in June 2024, Brat reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 — Charli’s highest profession peak on the chart thus far. From its meme-fueling lime-green cowl to its second on the middle of the 2024 United States presidential race, the album made the “Apple” singer a bona fide pop A-lister after spending years as a smaller cult-favorite artist.
Now, Charli has been centered on touring the album — she wrapped 4 sold-out nights at Barclay’s Middle in Brooklyn, N.Y., earlier in Could — and onscreen alternatives, together with a film she conceptualized for A24 known as The Second. Virtually a yr after Brat‘s launch, she’s additionally been having fun with a resurgence of one in every of her older songs: “Get together 4 U,” which has taken off on TikTok 5 years after it was launched on 2020’s How I’m Feeling Now.
“It takes me again to the time of the pandemic, actually, as a result of that’s after I was recording the vocals,” she advised Culted of the observe, for which she not too long ago dropped a music video. “It truly began some time earlier than that — the preliminary thought. However we type of by no means — I by no means actually took it wherever. So, yeah, now after I consider the music, I simply assume again to 5 years in the past and the way totally different the world was then. We had been all inside. Nobody was hanging out. You understand, it was type of lonely.”
