Charli XCX has given fans a brief teaser of her upcoming studio album. Check it out below.
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In the black-and-white clip filmed back in October, she’s seen in a Paris studio with A.G. Cook and Finn Keane – also her collaborators on 2024’s ‘Brat‘, working on a new song called ‘Rock Music’.
“It would be cool if we could have a song that was called ‘Rock Music’,” she says, before workshopping potential sounds. The video then shows an iPhone notes page where Charli is mapping out lyrics for the track. It reads: “Me and my friends/ We go out/ We take pictures together/ We sometimes cry/ We kiss each other incestous vibes.”
In the caption, Charli writes: “a video of me making a song called “rock music” that is not actually rock music which is funny because i never said i was making a rock album. love you xx”
It comes after her team confirmed that she was finishing work on her new album last month, while Charli herself implied the next release would be going in a rock direction. In an interview with Vogue, she declared: “I think the dance floor is dead, so now we’re making rock music”.
Elsewhere in the piece, she also revealed that she was determined not to make ‘Brat 2.0’. “If I’d made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad,” she confessed. “What’s interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be”.
Her last studio album was 2024’s ‘Brat’, the release which became a cultural phenomenon, giving rise to “’Brat’ Summer” and confirming Charli XCX as a global superstar. Since then, she has released a soundtrack album for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights.
As well as working on that soundtrack, the ‘360’ singer also penned music for the A24 film Mother Mary starring Anne Hathaway, starred in her own mockumentary The Moment, taken on a role in new romance Erupcja, and locked in a role in fantasy 100 Nights Of Hero.
She also played a comedic version of herself in the TV show Overcompensating, and was recently cast alongside Supergirl star Milly Alcock in a new horror film directed by Takasi Miike.
As for upcoming live dates, this August, she’ll return to the stage to make her headline debut at Reading & Leeds, topping the festival bill alongside Fontaines D.C., Raye, Florence + The Machine, Dave and Chase & Status. Visit here for tickets and more information.
In other news, she recently announced a Conversations event in New York City that will give fans an opportunity to ask her about her creative process and songwriting method.
