Just days after releasing the A.G. Cook and Finn Keane-produced “Rock Music,” Charli XCX is back with a B-side. Called “I Keep On Thinking Bout You Every Single Day and Night,” the track is only available on vinyl and her aptly-named Instagram account b.sides—it also comes with a new video directed by The Moment filmmaker Aidan Zamiri. Watch that below.
A slower and softer companion to the chugging, electric-guitar-laden“Rock Music,” “I Keep On Thinking Bout You Every Single Day and Night” finds Charli singing to a friend she’s considering turning into something more. “Maybe we could become each other, like something out of a Jacques Rivette movie or something,” she sings, referencing the French New Wave director. “I wonder if I just want you as my best friend, or if I’m just a really late bloomer.” Later, she touches on her own sexuality, noting: “Now I’m wondering if maybe I could be gay, but come on, look at me, I’m probably not. I’ve always wondered if you were actually gay, or if that’s something you just say for your career.”
The video, shot in black-and-white, follows Charli as she struts and spins around a studio space. In the caption for the video, Charli wrote that she filmed the music video for the song with Zamiri while on set for another film shoot in Kyoto, Japan. She also encouraged listeners to “rip the audio if you want it xx,” indicating that this song isn’t likely to pop up on DSPs any time soon.
Over the past few months, Charli has been teasing the follow-up to her 2024 album Brat, noting in a recent British Vogue cover story that the record features more guitars and less pitch-shifted vocals. In February, Charli also shared a companion album for Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, which featured John Cale and Sky Ferreira (although Ferreira took some umbrage with the release, claiming that the soundtrack drew significantly on her old demos). Outside the studio, Charli has been busy on the silver screen—she recently starred in the Polish film Erupja, which premiered in April, and has upcoming roles in Daniel Goldhaber’s Faces of Death remake and Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex.
