Charli’s carefree bratitude

● THE ONLY THING THAT COULD have made this a bigger year for Charli XCX would have been a different result in the presidential election. Back when Kamala Harris was first announced as the Democratic candidate, Charli — real name Charlotte Gemma Aitchison — was one of the first celebrities to throw her weight behind the Harris campaign by tweeting “Kamala IS brat”. Brat is the name of Charli’s all-conquering 2024 album, but it’s more than that. Brat is a meme: a fuzzy, deliberately ugly sans serif typeface on an aggressively lurid green background. It’s an attitude: “I’m a brat when I’m bumpin’ that,” sings Charli on the song “365”, which closes out the album, suggesting a whole sexy, dirty, druggy world of bolshy hedonism. What all that has…

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