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Charli XCX Reinvents ‘Brat’ With Dazzling Remix Set Featuring Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Lorde, the 1975 and More: Album Review
Charli XCX has reimagined her blockbuster 'Brat' album with remixes featuring Ariana Grande, Bon Iver, Lorde, Billie Eilish, Robyn and many more.
The previously released “Talk Talk” (sung by Troye Sivan) retains the structure of the original but overhauls the beat and backing, turning a bouncy pop song into a tweaked house anthem; the “Von Dutch” revamp (featuring Addison Rae) keeps the source version’s tempo and siren synthesizers but bounces rather than drives; the opening “360” is an all-star Swedish summit with “intellipop” pioneer Robyn and rapper Yung Lean. “I Might Say Something Stupid” is turned into a glacially slow and sensitive ballad by the 1975 and Jon Hopkins; Bon Iver brings soulful verses to “I Think About It All the Time” (along with a Bonnie Raitt sample); Julian Casablancas of the Strokes channels his vocoder’ed vocal from Daft Punk’s “Instant Crush” Sure, rappers have been starting, ending and prolonging beefs on remixes for decades, but this may be the first time two female artists have aired out and fixed their differences in this way — and then took it to the stage of Madison Square Garden last month for a triumphant conclusion.
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