Did you hear? It is Brat summer.
This is what English pop star Charli XCX claims, who recently released her sixth studio album Brat – as well as her loyal fan base, who call themselves “angels”.
Have you seen the proliferation of neon green? Children’s shirts? Sports sunglasses, especially when you’re out on the town? It is Brat summer.
After the angels adopted the expression that follows Brat release of the album on June 7, the “Boom Clap” singer, 31, helped clarify its meaning in an interview on BBC Sounds podcast.
“It can go that way — like luxury,” Charli said when asked if a recent photo of the star on a speedboat qualifies as part of the trend. “But it can be so trashy, just like a pack of cigarettes and a BIC lighter and a white strappy top with no bra.”
Across TikTok, fans have been scouring the new album’s lyrics for clues about the types of extras included in the Brat summer: digital cameras, cropped t-shirts, everything that belongs to the flirtatious aesthetic.
But perhaps the most basic for view Oh yeah Brat summer is the iconic shade of neon green, which Charli chose as the background of her album cover in a controversial move earlier this summer. After online criticism when she revealed the album cover, she responded to the criticism by asking why fans feel so “owned by female artists” that they expect their image on the album cover.
Charli XCX responds to criticism about her Brat Album Cover: ‘I’m Not Doing Things to Be Nice’
Cover of the album ‘Brother’.
Courtesy of Atlantic
In addition to the accessories, reminiscent of Y2K and indie slime fashion trends, Brat summer is a state of mind – being an “It” girl, but doing it effortlessly.
In the music video for the successful single “360” by alt-pop stars from Brat, enlisted the help of several IT girls past and present, including Chloë Sevigny, Julia Fox, Gabbriette Bechtel, Rachel Sennott, Chloe Cherry and Richie Shazam. The video even features Internet star Emma Chamberlain — the queen of messy buns and oversized t-shirts while also interviewing the stars as a three-time Met Gala red carpet correspondent.
Charli herself embodied the persona of the It girl effortlessly throughout her album campaign: at a performance in Los Angeles to promote the album, the star told the crowd mid-song: “I really don’t want to sing this one. I just want you to sing this while I drink wine, OK?”
Even the album cover — a plain green background with a murky, basic font spelling out the album title — lends a blasé feel to the album’s promotional cycle, as if Charli never takes anything too seriously, and neither should you.
But Brat summer is also defined by another key aspect: harmless pettiness. On the whole album, which is in an interview for FaceCharli is not afraid to talk about those with whom she has doubts.
“I think I can be a bitch, but I don’t know that I am a bitch,” said the singer on Las Culturistas podcast earlier in June. “I don’t think you become a bad feminist if you maybe don’t see eye to eye with every woman. It’s just not the nature of human beings.”
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Throughout her “Mean Girls” song, Charli praises a bit of bad behavior — breaking her boyfriend’s heart and using a “razor-sharp tongue.” “I kind of miss the time when pop music was really volatile and crazy,” he said Face. “I miss the days of Paris Hilton. Everyone’s so worried right now about everything, how they’re going to be perceived, whether this art they’ve created is going to be offensive.”
In the song “Sympathy is a knife,” she laments, “I don’t want to share space” because “this one girl touches my insecurities.” He later continues: “I don’t want to see her backstage at my boyfriend’s show / I’m keeping my fingers crossed / I hope she breaks up soon.” (Some have speculated that the song is about former tour mate Taylor Swift or actress Chloe Bennet, as both have been linked to men from Charla’s fiance George Daniel’s band The 1975.)
But Brat Summer should also be about squashing unnecessary beef, like Charli and Lorde did when they dropped the much-discussed remix of “Girl, so confusing.” Before the new version of the song, fans speculated that it was Brat the song — which talks about Charlie’s frustration at a friend failing to make plans to collaborate on music or hang out together — was about Lorde, given the line that says they have “the same hair.”
However, the pair “resolved it on the remix”, where Lorde admits that the English singer intimidated her, but always respected her as an artist. (“I’m riding for you, Charli,” the “Royals” singer declares at the end of her verse.)
So bring your neon green and some shade – because it is Brat summer.
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