Charli XCX performed a handful of Music, Fashion, Film songs live for the first time Friday during an intimate gig in Brooklyn.
Taking the stage at the Music Hall of Williamsburg — a much smaller venue than her recent Brat arena tour — XCX opened the show with a trio of live debuts from her upcoming album, “Playboy Bunny,” “SS26,” and “Camera.”
Charli XCX was also joined by a trio of guests over the course of the concert. First, Underscores — the opening act on her upcoming Music, Fashion, Film Tour — performed their own “Music” alongside the singer. Kim Petras later appeared to perform “Jeep,” and Clairo closed out the surprises with a rendition of “Sofia.”
Moving away from the Brat era — only “Apple” was played — Charli XCX instead focused on her new LP and beyond, performing the unreleased “Take Away the Music” and closed out the MHOW gig with M, F, F’s “Wink Wink” and “Rock Music.”
Following another small gig July 14 at London’s Scala, Charli XCX is scheduled to perform on a way bigger stage with a headlining slot at Lollapalooza on July 31, the first of four festival gigs she has booked this summer; San Francisco’s Outside Lands and England’s Reading and Leeds follow in August. The Music, Fashion, Film Tour begins in September.
Music, Fashion, Film arrives July 24. Even though the album’s first single was titled “Rock Music,” Charli XCX wouldn’t define the LP as a “rock album” in her recent Rolling Stone cover story.
“Obviously, I know that there’s been a lot of conversation around me making a rock album, which is something that I never said,” she said. “But to be honest, I’ve never thought about genre in a binary way. I find that to be a very old-school notion. I don’t even know what the genre is. It’s just me and A. G. Cook and Finn Keane, doing our thing.”
