Charli xcx has revealed that there is one collaboration on her upcoming album Music, Fashion, Film.
The follow-up to 2024’s Brat is set for release on July 24, and Charli has admitted fans will struggle to guess who the only featured artist is.
Appearing on French TV show Quotidien, she teased: “There is one collaboration.
“I’m not telling you, but you won’t be able to guess.”
Charli – who put John Cale, Marc Jacobs, and Martin Scorsese on the cover to represent her heroes in the three respective industries – insisted it’s impossible to guess who it is.
She said: “I’d bet money on you not guessing. You can try!
“You could have 1000 chances and you still wouldn’t guess.”
So far, fans have heard the singles Rock Music, which divided fans, and SS26.
The next track, Wink Wink, is set to land on Friday (26.06.26).
This week, Charli and Madonna put to bed feud rumours as they spent several hours partying together in Paris.
After the 33-year-old star declared in Rock Music that “the dance floor is dead,” Madonna, who is releasing the dance album Confessions II soon, posted a series of disco-themed images on Instagram with a caption many fans saw as a direct clapback.
She wrote: “If your Dance Floor feels dead Maybe you’re playing the wrong music (sic).”
However, the pair silenced the speculation as they sat side by side, smoked cigarettes, and hugged at the Saint Laurent menswear spring/summer 2027 fashion show on Tuesday (23.06.26).
They were later seen behind the DJ booth dancing to Madonna’s hits Thief of Hearts and Hung Up at the after-party.
It comes hot off the heels of Charli clearing up that she doesn’t believe the “dance floor is dead” after all.
Charli clarified that the lyric is about her album Brat, and she very much believes the dance floor is alive, especially given that her husband, George Daniel, runs a dance music label.
In a cover interview with Rolling Stone, she explained: “That lyric is very much about my relationship with Brat, and my personal experience with that album.
“My husband runs a dance-music label. There’s been such a wealth of incredible dance/electronic-adjacent records that have been coming out recently, whether it’s Slayyyter or Underscores or PinkPantheress. Dance music is in an incredible place.”
It was suggested that Charli was making a diversion into rock music with the title of the song, but she insists that is not the case; in fact, she doesn’t believe in genres.
Charli said: “Obviously, I know that there’s been a lot of conversation around me making a rock album, which is something that I never 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.”
