Charli XCX is Totally Chill With Her Next Album Flopping

“I don’t really feel the pressure to create another record like Brat, because when I was making it, even though I really believed in it and totally knew what I wanted to do with it, I had no idea how it would be received,” she told Culted. “I was really doing it for myself and marketing it in the way I wanted to for myself, but I had no clue that people would kind of connect to it in the way that they did.”

She added: “You can never really do the same thing twice, and my next record will probably be a flop, which I’m down for, to be honest.”

Although her next album may not penetrate a presidential campaign the way Brat did, she’s still open to the idea of forever having a “brat summer.”

“There’s been rumors of Brat Summer 2.0 and that maybe it’s just kind of like a lifestyle, and I like that theory, so yeah, I’m going to go with that for me, personally,” she said. 

Charli recently dropped the video for her song “Party 4 U,” originally released five years ago, to celebrate the anniversary of her album How I’m Feeling Now. The video sees Charli kind of going crazy after the person she threw a party for (get it?) doesn’t show. She does everything from ripping her clothes in the desert to lighting a billboard with her face on it on fire. Charli says the song brings her back to days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when she recorded it. 

“When I think of the song, I just think back to five years ago and how different the world was then,” she said. “We were all inside. No one was hanging out. It was kind of lonely.”