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Charli XCX – “Rock Music”

stereogum.com·Margaret Farrell·25 days ago
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Charli is not giving us a break. Popstars gotta pivot, baby. Following the never-ending life cycle of 2024's Brat , she made a mockumentary film about that moment, aptly titled The Moment , fully pivoted to film with a few acting roles , and even wrote soundtracks for films she wasn't acting in — Wuthering Heights and Mother Mary . Then in an interview published a few weeks ago she revealed a lyric and money quote from even more stuff she's got brewing: "I think the dancefloor is dead, so now we’re making rock music." She later tempered that sentiment, captioning a recent social media teaser , "a video of me making a song called rock music that is not actually rock music which is funny because i never said i was making a rock album." Today, we finally get a taste of her new "rock" era. The aptly titled single "Rock Music" is here. Charli is going to send me into a spiral, and I love her for it. "Rock Music" is loaded and silly, or ragebaity as we're now calling it.…

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