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Lorde Is ‘Gagged’ by Charli XCX’s ‘Brat’ Album: ‘There Is No One Like This B—-‘

Lorde is shouting out her pal Charli XCX leading up to the release of the latter’s highly anticipated new album, Brat.

Charli XCX’s sixth studio album arrives on Friday (June 7), led by the rambunctious single “Von Dutch” and followed by “360.” Speaking to Billboard at this year’s 2024 Women in Music event, Charli said that BRAT is a club record meant to evoke the illegal London rave scene of the early 2000s where she started performing as a 14 and 15-year-old, produced from a tight collection of sounds to create “this unique minimalism that is very loud and bold.” She also said that the album is “very direct” eschewing “metaphor and flowery lyricism” for language that is closer to the way she talks to her friends in text messages.

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