Charli XCX has given fans a brief teaser of her upcoming studio album.
In the black-and-white clip filmed back in October, she’s seen in a Paris studio with A.G. Cook and Finn Keane, who are also her collaborators on 2024’s Brat, working on a new song called Rock Music.
“It would be cool if we could have a song that was called Rock Music,” she says, before workshopping potential sounds.
The video then shows an iPhone notes page where Charli is mapping out lyrics for the track. It reads, “Me and my friends/ We go out/ We take pictures together/ We sometimes cry/ We kiss each other inc*stous vibes.”
In the caption, the Speed Drive hitmaker wrote, “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. love you xx”
It comes after her team confirmed that she was finishing work on her new album last month, while Charli herself implied the next release would be going in a rock direction. In an interview with Vogue, she declared, “I think the dance floor is dead, so now we’re making rock music”.
Elsewhere in the piece, she also explained why she was determined not to make “Brat 2.0.”
“If I’d made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad,” she confessed. “What’s interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be”.
Charli XCX’s last studio album was 2024’s Brat, the release which became a cultural phenomenon, giving rise to “Brat Summer.”
