Charli XCX‘s producers have shared that the musician’s next album is taking a different route and leaning towards “anti-Brat”.
The three-time Grammy Award-winning artist released her sixth album ‘Brat‘ last year to critical acclaim. Upon the release of ‘Brat’, Charli saw an unprecedented surge in popularity, resulting in successful arena tours, including a co-headlining tour with Troye Sivan. She pulled double duty in performing and hosting Saturday Night Live too, where she earned praise from fans for her on-screen ability and comic timing.
Now, Charli’s ‘Brat’ producers A.G. Cook, Finn Keane and George Daniel – who is also Charli’s fiancée – opened up about what the ‘Von Dutch’ hitmaker’s next LP is looking like.
Speaking to Grammys.com as part of a roundtable discussion, Cook opened up about whether he and Charli had talked about new material to which he responded: “Not truly, it’s just loose chatting about things. [For Charli] the genesis of things is really about having an idea but then being very impulsive. I think you need a certain amount of space to do that.”
Keane added: “Chatting to Charli now, there is a desire in her to do the complete opposite thing again, which is very in keeping with her ethos. Some of the conversations we’re having and music we’ve been playing around with the last couple of months have been completely the opposite.
“I love that spirit. It’s the iconoclastic impulse to rebuild something completely different, to show that you actually could do this other thing, this whole other side of your artistry.”
He also said that the follow up to her sixth LP may not be completely “anti-Brat” and added that he is “very optimistic and excited” about what’s next.
“It’s been really funny, in the months after finishing the remix album, any other musical discussion that has taken place has been kind of anti-Brat,” Keane told the outlet. “I doubt that’ll stick, but that’s been a really interesting thing to observe and makes me very optimistic and excited about [what’s next].”
In other Charli XCX news, the pop singer recently donated $25,000 (£20,086) in support of artist’s access to healthcare after Chappell Roan called out the music industry during her Grammy’s acceptance speach where she “demanded that labels in the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists would offer a liveable wage and health care, especially developing artists.”
Roan was slammed for her speach by Jeffrey Rabhan – a longtime music executive and former Chair of NYU’s Clive Davis Institute – in The Hollywood Reporter, calling her Grammys speech “misguided” and “uninformed” in a guest column.
Elsewhere, a casting call was posted for Charli XCX‘s upcoming new A24 film The Moment.
