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Yahoo
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Charli XCX crowns Gracie Abrams as Glastonbury 2025 ‘Apple Girl'
Charli XCX revealed her Glastonbury 2025 'Apple girl' to be 25-year-old American singer and songwriter Gracie Abrams. The Apple girl is a surprise guest who appears when Charli XCX plays her song 'Apple' with the selected guest then performing a TikTok dance known as the Apple dance. Gracie is the daughter of the film director JJ Abrams. Charli XCX was playing the final slot at Glastonbury's Other Stage on Saturday in front of a packed crowd.
Daily Mail
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Charli XCX brings Brat back for Glastonbury and has the support of Gracie Abrams as her viral 'Apple' girl
Charli XCX puts on a racy display as she graces the stage at this year's Glastonbury Festival at Somerset's Worthy Farm. The singer, 32, showed off her toned figure during her Saturday evening set in the UK in black leather micro shorts with a skull-covered Alexander McQueen scarf worn as a crop top and oversized sunglasses. The crowd went wild as Charli performed her hits including Apple, during which she asked the audience, 'You know what time it is! Now who the f*** is going to be "Apple" girl at Glastonbury?' As Gracie Adams appeared on the screen behind Charli doing the viral TikTok dance, the surprised performer said: 'What? Make some noise right now! Gracie, I love you!' Cooling off: The singer, who wore black leather micro shorts and a skull-covered crop top, got a special surprise from a fellow singer who performed her viral Apple dance...
Daily Mirror
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Glastonbury travel chaos as thousands in queue desperate to bag perfect spot
It's that time of year again, as the gates for Glastonbury have opened for a weekend of live music - and thousands of festival goers are preparing for the weekend antics The Glastonbury fun has already started as hundreds of thousands of festival goers have already arrived at the Somerset festival to bag their place when gates open at 8am. Worthy Farm in Pilton will once again welcome thousands of music fans for a weekend of live music from artists including Olivia Rodrigo, Neil Young, Charli XCX and Rod Stewart. With gates opening on Wednesday morning (June 25) at 8am - festival goers are starting the celebrations early, as they're seen cracking open the cans in the packed out queue. Some dedicated festivalgoers have been queuing through the night - with thousands joining with their tent trolleys. Fans can be seen festival ready in the queue, with bucket hats, rollers in their hair, and of course cans in hand. Despite the weather gloomy weather, fans look in high spirits as they make their way to Britain's biggest festival. Despite showers originally forecasted for Worthy Farm in Somerset, festival goers will be relieved to hear that there has been a wet weather U-turn - and sunshine is expected over the next few days. Following this morning's gloomy weather, , the Met Office has said it's "set to warm up" again, although festivalgoers may need to get their wellies out tomorrow. However, things are set to brighten up on Saturday when Brat singer Charli XCX is set to bring Brat Summer to Glasto. Charli - full name Charlotte Emma Aitchison - has been a regular face at music festivals across the world for over a decade. She's been enjoying huge mainstream success since her sixth studio album last year introduced her to new fans - who are sure to be taking part in the viral Apple Dance. Things seem calm for now, although those who try to 'jump the fence' to avoid the queues and try to gain access without a ticket will face a special 'jail' on site. Not only that, it's there for anyone breaking the rules on site. Security has vastly increased over the years - which is allegedly more expensive than what is offered to the Royal Family. This year, security is thought to have been heightened even further after thousands of people are said to have snuck into the festival last year with fake wristbands and or by vaulting the fences. In 2025, some stages were forced to close due to overcrowding, with some festivalgoers even describing it as the busiest Glasto to date. The 'Glastonbury Jail' is an official holding space before being evicted from the site or when police are called. While it's not technically a jail, many refer to it as one, reports The Times. However, for those abiding by the rules, the festival will open with a theatre and circus act set in the Pyramid Arena tonight at 10pm. The first headline performance from The 1975 taking place on the Pyramid Stage on Friday.
BBC News
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Charli XCX: Meet the Apple Girls from star's Belsonic gig
Thousands of fans who attended Charli XCX's Belsonic gig on Wednesday night will have been waking up to watch clips of her performance back on their two fans have been replaying their own performances again and Lawther and Maisie Smith were picked to be Belfast's 'Apple Girls' at the gig, picked from the crowd to perform a viral dance, projected on the big screens, during Charli's song Apple. Speaking to BBC News NI, Anna joked she and Maisie watched their performance back "too many times". "It's so crazy. I can't believe that out of all those people it was us," she said."Everyone's been really nice in the comments saying we did a good job so we're proud to represent Belfast well."Maisie said she and Anna, who are both 20, were in disbelief when they were chosen."We obviously didn't think it was going to happen to us and then it did." Anna, who is from Belfast, and Maisie, who is from Hertfordshire, met at Loughborough University. The friends queued from about 15:30 BST on Wednesday and ran to the barriers in front of the stage when they got in, securing a prime spot. 'Do you know the Apple Dance?' Maisie was originally going to make a sign that said "Hello from Bishop's Stortford" - her hometown, which is also where Charli went to the end, they did not get round to that and she said they were just "genuinely enjoying [themselves]" and not even trying to attract attention when they were spotted by a crew came over and typed on his phone: "Do you know the Apple Dance?""We just looked at each other and went: 'Oh my word, no way'," Anna said. "And we were like: 'Yes, yes, yes'."A few songs later, the girls were on the big screen."It's all a bit of a blur," Anna said, adding that they were so focused on the camera they didn't actually look at the screen."We were just trying to lock in, get the dance right." Belsonic, which takes place at Ormeau Park in south Belfast, will run until the end of June and more than 100,000 people are expected to attend. What is the Apple Dance? Several songs from Charli's sixth album, Brat, have gone viral on social media with fans recording dance trend of selecting an 'Apple Girl' began during Charli's Sweat tour last summer and has continued as part of the current Brat Charli performs Apple, a camera cuts to a fan doing the Apple Dance in the actor and content creator Kelley Heyer created the viral dance moves - and she was invited by Charli to appear on the big screen at the New York leg of her Sweat tour in has said the dance was inspired by what she felt was a lack of appreciation initially for Apple. Other famous Apple Girls include Chappell Roan, Lorde, Clairo, Jenna Ortega, and Romy celebrities like Dave Grohl, Brooke Shields, Joe Jonas, Jessica Alba, Cara Delevingne and even Charli herself have participated in the trend online. What is Brat? Brat - and the 'brat summer' the album spawned - was one of the pop culture sensations of album, released in June 2024, was a critical success minimalistic album art - with the word Brat stylised in a low-resolution Arial font on a lime-green background - became the fodder of memes, with individuals and businesses jumping on the brat summer idea of "brat" was adopted by some fans as a rejection of the "clean girl" aesthetic, popularised on on social media, Charli described brat as a girl who "is a little messy and likes to party and maybe says some dumb things some times"."Who feels like herself but maybe also has a breakdown. But kind of like parties through it, is very honest, very blunt. A little bit volatile. Like, does dumb things. But it's brat. You're brat. That's brat," she said. The phrase even reached the heights of American politics after Charli used the phrase to endorse Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Harris campaign then scattered references to the album across its social media accounts, renaming her profile Kamala was also chosen as Collins Dictionary word of the have defined it as someone with a "confident, independent and hedonistic attitude". Who is playing Belsonic 2025? Snow Patrol, Alanis Morissette, Charli XCX, Justin Timberlake and Irish DJ BLK are among a host of big names taking to the stage this featuring are Stereophonics, Madness, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Lush! dance music fans, the Boiler Room will see Dutch DJ and producer Chris Stussy team up with KETTAMA, a DJ and producer from Galway.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Charli XCX Releasing ‘Party 4 U' Video to Celebrate Fifth Anniversary of ‘How I'm Feeling Now'
Charli XCX has revealed she'll finally release a video for her 2020 single 'Party 4 U' to coincide with the five-year anniversary of How I'm Feeling Now. While the singer is still in the midst of her Brat summer, she turned to Instagram Wednesday to share a handwritten note reflecting on How I'm Feeling Now, a release that 'honestly just feels like yesterday,' she wrote. More from Rolling Stone Watch Rosé Take on Charli XCX's Apple Dance at Brooklyn Show Lorde Explains How Charli XCX's 'Brat' Gave Her 'a Kick' to Finish New Album 'Virgin' Turnstile Go All Ari Aster in the Pit in Double Video for 'Seein' Stars' and 'Birds' 'So much has changed since then: me, my life, elements of my music and most definitely the world,' XCX wrote. 'I made the album in just five weeks, from conception to release, entirely publicly in collaboration with all of you. It was so special. I felt like I rediscovered myself, my sanity + my sense of connection with the world, at a time where we were all so alone.' How I'm Feeling Now was recorded during the Covid-19 quarantines, and its arrival in May 2020 was dampened in part by the continuing pandemic. However, five years later, the album's 'Party 4 U' has seen a resurgence thanks to TikTok as well as its inclusion in the Brat Tour setlist, leading her label to re-release the single earlier this month and pair it with a music video arriving Thursday, the album's fifth anniversary. 'Obviously I wanted to do something to celebrate,' Charli hinted in the handwritten letter, later sharing an image from the forthcoming 'Party 4 U' video. 'It was all of us at our most raw, our most stripped, our most vulnerable. I will never forget it, and I really can't believe that 5 years later one of the Angel favorites is having its own special moment.' Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
