What is Brat Summer? Charli XCX’s Feral Summer Aesthetic Explained

As
for
her
most
recent
album,
the
“360”
singer
decided
to
trust
her
instincts
and
take
risks
with
the
music
she
released
into
the
world—which
ended
up
bringing
her
back
to
her
rave
roots.

“I
kinda
miss
the
time
where
pop
music
was
really
volatile
and
crazy,”
she
said
in
a

February
interview

with

The
Face
.
“I
miss
the

Paris
Hilton

days.
Everybody
is
so
worried
about
everything
right
now,
how
they’re
perceived,
if
this
art
they’ve
created
is
going
to
offend.”

And
despite
the
demands
of
the
mainstream
pop
industry,
Charli
found
success
in
staying
true
to
herself
and
rejecting
the
cookie-cutter
pop
star
image.

“I
know
that
if
I
suffered
in
silence,
pushed
through
it
and
didn’t
say
what
was
on
my
mind,
and
maybe
got
like
a
brow
lift
or
whatever,
I
could
probably
operate
in
a
more
commercial
world,”
she
told


GQ

in
May.
“Sometimes
I
tempt
myself
with
going
there,
but
I
think
the
problem
is
my
fanbase
knows
that
that’s
not
who
I
am,
so
they
kind
of
smell
a
rat,
and
they’re
like,
‘This
is
inauthentic.’
But
then
I
think
that
sometimes
puts
me
in
this
position
where
the
masses
are
like,
‘What
the
f–k
is
this?’”

But
the
pop
sensation
must
be
doing
something
right,
because
a
TikTok
viral
dance
to
her
song
“Apple”
has
taken
the
internet
by
storm.
Even
the
cast
of
the

Twisters

film—including

Daisy
Edgar
Jones
,

Glen
Powell

and

Anthony
Ramos
took
part
in
the
trend
.

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