Charli XCX Expands 'Brat' Universe With 'Brat and It's Completely Different But Also Still Brat'
2024 has been very kind to those of us who’ve had “ I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it ” stuck in our heads for the past seven years.
Put another way, it’s a uniquely rewarding time to be a longtime Charli XCX fan. The year of Brat, after all, has seen Charli’s long-ahead-of-the-curve artistic tendencies infiltrating the zeitgeist at a level rarely seen. As Charli herself explained at the recent Grammy U Fall Summit event in Nashville, she achieved these new artistic heights, in part, by working from a place of maximum intention. In fact, the Brat sessions are said to have been preceded by a Brat manifesto that thoughtfully defined what is, not to mention what isn’t, Brat.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DA-D4isAN0V/?img_index=1
The album itself finds Charli operating at the peak of her powers, ultimately delivering what will no undoubtedly stand as one of the strongest albums of the year. That praise should extend to the larger Brat experience, as well, with Charli and Troye Sivan's SWEAT tour expanding on the club-meets-existentialism ethos of the album by shrewdly inviting fans to join them in dancing their way through the full spectrum of human emotion.
That expansion mercifully continues with the release of a Brat remix collection, aptly named Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat. "Completely different," in this case, means Charli has enlisted the following artists to help her ensure further Brat-ification of the world at large: Robyn, Yung Lean, BB Trickz, Ariana Grande, The 1975, Jon Hopkins, Troye Sivan, Addison Rae, Caroline Polachek, Bladee, Lorde, The Japanese House, Tinashe, Julian Casablancas, Bon Iver, Shygirl (who opens the SWEAT tour), and Billie Eilish.
Listen here , then complement the experience with Charli's recent Zane Lowe interview:
The SWEAT tour continues Friday night with a show at the Ball Arena in Denver before the party touches down in Phoenix, Inglewood (for two back-to-back nights at Kia Forum), San Diego, and elsewhere. Through Oct. 14, meanwhile, fans can see the Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat immersive sculpture in person at Storm King Arts Center in New York.
Related
