{"id":6108,"date":"2025-05-17T16:52:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6108"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:46:44","slug":"charli-xcx-i-was-preparing-this-album-only-for-my-fanbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6108","title":{"rendered":"Charli XCX \u2014 I Was Preparing This Album Only For My Fanbase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forget song of the summer\u20142024\u2019s undisputed album of the summer (northern hemisphere version) arrived in early June with a slime-green album cover and wall-to-wall bangers that would launch Charli xcx\u2019s career to stratospheric new heights. (Cue news anchors worldwide grappling with the sociopolitical ramifications of \u201cbeing brat.\u201d) For years, the self-directed English artist enjoyed a reputation buzzier than \u201ccult favorite\u201d yet not quite \u201cmain pop girl,\u201d but with the release of her sixth studio album, she hadn\u2019t just captured the zeitgeist\u2014she\u2019d become it.<\/p>\n

If you didn\u2019t see it coming, well, neither did Charli. \u201cI really was preparing for this album to be for my fanbase only, and not really break outside the walls of that at all,\u201d she tells Apple Music\u2019s Zane Lowe with typical candor. Nevertheless, she presented the concept to her label with a manifesto she\u2019d written\u2014things she\u2019d wanted to say since 2016\u2019s paradigm-shifting Vroom Vroom EP. \u201c\u2018On this record there\u2019s going to be no traditional radio songs, because we don\u2019t live in that world now,\u2019\u201d she told them. \u201cThis fanbase I have built is so hungry for me and my peers and our slightly-left world of pop\/dance music\u2014they\u2019re hungry for us to succeed. That doesn\u2019t mean that we have to do any pandering to any other side of the industry. We just have to do it for them because they\u2019ve championed us for so long, and that\u2019s all we need to light a fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Not content to rest while that fire\u2019s still burning, Charli\u2019s also committed to single-handedly keeping the remix industry afloat. You could call the full-length remix album yet another shrewd marketing move, though the project was in the works well before BRAT blew up. Here, a cross-generational who\u2019s who of cool kids mingles in the smoking section of fall\u2019s most exclusive party, where NYC garage-rock legends rub elbows with genuine pop divas and mystical Swedish rappers. And for all BRAT\u2019s messy rawness regarding the complications of being a woman in the industry, the remix album brings together a slick-talking Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande at her glitchiest, Robyn flexing her \u201990s bona fides, Tinashe basking in her own long-awaited shine, and naturally, the Lorde remix that broke the internet. Brat summer is dead. Long live brat summer!<\/p>\n

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Forget song of the summer\u20142024\u2019s undisputed album of the summer (northern hemisphere version) arrived in early June with a slime-green album cover and wall-to-wall bangers that would launch Charli xcx\u2019s career to stratospheric new heights. (Cue news anchors worldwide grappling with the sociopolitical ramifications of \u201cbeing brat.\u201d) For years, the self-directed English artist enjoyed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6111,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108\/revisions\/6111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}