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Which Brat Is More Brat?
Comparing Charli XCX’s Brat remix album to the original, track by track.
The remixes are a reminder of Brat ’s strengths: club bangers, mixed with extreme vulnerability, that reek of cigarette smoke and make you feel kinda slutty. “360” is one of the best pop songs of the year: Charli sings approximately one note the whole time — except when she says “Juli-a-a-a-a-a-a” — and somehow turns it into a sonic sugar rush. On Brat, “I might say something stupid” plays less like a full song and more like an interstice — a brief contemplation from the POV of a girl drunkenly looking at herself in the bathroom mirror and getting self-conscious.
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