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Charli XCX Brings ‘Brat’ to Brooklyn — Along With Lorde, Matty Healy and More — in a Blaze of Beats and Eye-Blasting Lights: Concert Review
Charli XCX's electrifying concert in Brooklyn featured nearly all of her new 'Brat' album, along with Matty Healy, Lorde, Julia Fox and more.
Matty Healy and his girlfriend Gabriette Bechtel (who chose the occasion to apparently announce their engagement) were in the house, as were Lorde, Julia Fox, Lily Allen and probably other luminaries. Charli strutted through 17 on the 18 songs on “Brat” and a pair from 2017’s “Pop 2” mixtape as she flipped her hair, pumped her fists and rocked her trademark hip-pumping moves, with the energy peaking during a pulverizing performance of the album’s first single, “Von Dutch.” As the set wound toward its end she dipped back into the recent past with “1999” and “Speed Drive,” before taking it way back with the first smash she ever wrote, Icona Pop’s 2013 smash “I Don’t Care,” and closed with the album-ending “365.” The sweaty and satiated crowd flooded out into the warm night and confabbed in front of the theater, causing little disturbance amid the noisy almost-highway of Flatbush Avenue as a couple hundred Party Girls of all persuasions danced around a portable speaker blasting “Brat.” It’s shaping up to be a summer of espresso, Chappell and Charli.
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