{"id":14083,"date":"2026-07-24T07:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/24\/charli-xcx-music-fashion-film-review-slippery-search-into-selfhood-that-hits-just-as-hard-as-brat-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:34:07","slug":"charli-xcx-music-fashion-film-review-slippery-search-into-selfhood-that-hits-just-as-hard-as-brat-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/24\/charli-xcx-music-fashion-film-review-slippery-search-into-selfhood-that-hits-just-as-hard-as-brat-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Charli xcx: Music, Fashion, Film review \u2013 slippery search into selfhood that hits just as hard as Brat Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Atlantic)<br \/><\/strong>How do you follow up the album that made you a star \u2013 and a caricature? In classic Charli style: with a pivot to guitar and a meta masterpiece about the instability of identity<\/p>\n<p>After a decade spent trailblazing a unique kind of pop freedom from the genre\u2019s fringes, A-list success seemed like the thing that might finally trap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/charli-xcx\">Charli xcx<\/a>. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/article\/2024\/jun\/06\/charli-xcx-brat-review-insecurity-obliterating-anthems-by-pops-most-human-superstar\">2024 club-rat opus Brat<\/a> spawned memes, embarrassing political bandwagoning, Collins\u2019 word of the year and possibly terminal damage to the bra industry. Its ludicrous cultural impact looked set to pickle her as a caricature of a Parliament-toting bad girl; the question of whether \u201cBrat summer\u201d could last \u2013 whether Charli could sustain the interest \u2013 was so rife she turned it into a mockumentary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/jan\/24\/the-moment-review-charli-xcx\">The Moment<\/a>. It made success look miserable: your creation turned cringe by execs wanting to milk their prize cow dry of every last acid-green drop.<\/p>\n<p>Even for a pop star renowned for reinvention, it put a higher price on her next move. Pivot and risk losing new fans and looking wilfully contrarian. When Charli released the sub-two-minute single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/may\/08\/charli-xcx-rock-music-review-is-she-really-pivoting-from-pop-dont-be-so-sure\">Rock Music<\/a>, many heard it as a middle finger. \u201cI think the dancefloor is dead,\u201d she drawls over guitars that buzzed like speakers weathering interference from a Nokia 5110, \u201cso now we\u2019re making <em>rock music<\/em>.\u201d There were boring thinkpieces about the dancefloor being very much alive, <em>actually<\/em> (as if Charli had ever ridden culture for clout then binned it off), and about whether she was trying to eject fair-weather new fans. But the key to this cheeky song is surprisingly earnest: \u201cJump off the stage \/ I hope they catch you today \/ But if they don\u2019t it\u2019s OK,\u201d she sings naively, an affirmation to take creative leaps, and to come with Charli \u2013 or not, as you like \u2013 as she takes this one.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/jul\/24\/charli-xcx-music-fashion-film-review\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/jul\/24\/charli-xcx-music-fashion-film-review\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/26648886ec541c5312f1a46888b150265180fd11\/163_0_4859_3888\/master\/4859.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=afe29bb336bbe4218e502d182f7494f7\" title=\"Charli xcx: Music, Fashion, Film review \u2013 slippery search into selfhood that hits just as hard as Brat\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Atlantic)How do you follow up the album that made you a star \u2013 and a caricature? In classic Charli style: with a pivot to guitar and a meta masterpiece about the instability of identity After a decade spent trailblazing a unique kind of pop freedom from the genre\u2019s fringes, A-list success seemed like the thing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Charli xcx: Music, Fashion, Film review \u2013 slippery search into selfhood that hits just as hard as Brat Culture | The Guardian - Cultural Left<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/24\/charli-xcx-music-fashion-film-review-slippery-search-into-selfhood-that-hits-just-as-hard-as-brat-culture-the-guardian\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charli xcx: Music, Fashion, Film review \u2013 slippery search into selfhood that hits just as hard as Brat Culture | The Guardian - Cultural Left\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Atlantic)How do you follow up the album that made you a star \u2013 and a caricature? 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