21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Charli XCX Reveals ‘Brat' Follow-Up Plans
For the record, Charli XCX has no problem being a flop.
We know she's nothing of the sort, as her album brat made waves and brought her artistry to the mainstream. The pop pioneer gained traction as songs like 'Von Dutch,' '360,' and 'Apple' found new audiences, making 2024 an undeniably brat summer. The project became her highest charting album as it hit No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it earned Charli her first three Grammy wins. Even now, an entire year after brat was released, new fans and OG Angels agree that brat summer is forever.
According to the artist, she doesn't 'really feel the pressure' to chase the same commercial success with her next album. During an interview with Culted, she shared, 'I don't really feel the pressure to create another record like brat because when I was making it, even though I really believed in it and totally knew what I wanted to do with it, I had no idea how it would be received.'
She added, 'I was really doing it for myself and marketing it in the way I wanted to for myself but I had no clue that people would kind of connect to it in the way that they did. So yeah, I don't really feel the pressure because I feel that you can never really do the same thing twice, and my next record will probably be a flop, which I'm down for, to be honest.'
A few weeks before she dropped ^^^ this revelation, Charli opened up about not wanting to let go of brat in a candid TikTok video.
'It's really hard to let go of brat and let go of this thing that is so inherently me and become my entire life, you know?' she said in the clip. 'And I started thinking about culture and the kind of ebbs and flows of the lifespan of things and how when you get a level of success, you can kind of become oversaturated and then people want you to disappear, which I understand.'
It's difficult to imagine Charli flopping anytime soon, as her 2020 track, 'party 4 u,' has reached new fans and is steadily climbing up the Billboard Hot 100. The song also went viral on TikTok with more than 2.9 million creator posts and 6.6 million views, and made its way into Spotify's Global Top 50 chart and U.S. Top 50 chart. Five years after its initial release, it's well on its way to becoming the song of summer 2025.
