Charli XCX’s Year of the ‘Brat’
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Charli XCX’s Year of the ‘Brat’
Or more recently, Charli XCX in her “Brat” era, whose lo-fi aesthetic and collaborations with young artists like Billie Eilish and Addison Rae spoke to the mood of Gen Z — even when her lyrics evinced quintessentially millennial concerns about fertility and finding the best bathroom to do coke in.
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What are the women of pop music up to this summer? Being brats, Spencer Kornhaber writes.
It may sound like an insult, “but when the hipster diva Charli XCX titled her new album ‘Brat’ … she crystalized a cultural mood: Seeming a little immature, a little selfish, a little nasty, has taken on an air of glamour,”... See more
instagram.comInvoke the brat as your muse, it seems, and she’ll dilute the politics of your book down to a mix of provocativeness and uncertainty. Something like “The system is gross, but the people who want to resist or improve it are cringe. And some aspects of the system, like online shopping and racism and fatphobia, might actually be OK? Just kidding!... See more