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Still Brat After All These Months
It’s ok to be annoying about Charli XCX’s massive year.
She logged credits on Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” and “Beg for It” and had a solo hit in The Fault in Our Stars ’s “Boom Clap.” But later that year, the punk-pop aesthetic of Sucker, her sophomore album, failed to set the world on fire, seemingly dissolving the singer-songwriter’s interest in an aggressively mainstream gesture. She had pull with pop yeomen — a “Disco Tits”–era Tove Lo, Carly Rae Jepsen post– Emotion: Side B — but also modern queer creatives like Cali rapper Mykki Blanco and Brazilian drag star Pabllo Vittar. The original Brat offered a heterodox synth album and venting session dressed in pop-diva garments for normies caught in its flytrap, and Completely different reworks its source material, unraveling threads interwoven in Charli’s patchwork sound.
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