Charli XCX has actually launched her newest single, “Rock Music.”
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“I believe the dance flooring is dead/So now we’re making rock music.” Farewell Brat Summer, hi Rock Spring! Charli XCX has actually returned with the brand-new single, “Rock Music.”
Charli dropped the track hours after her pal, the Dare, debuted it at his opening set for PinkPantheress in Brooklyn. Including her partners A.G. Cooke and Finn Keane (previously referred to as EasyFun), the single appears with a blazing guitar riff, as Charli takes the mic: “Me and my friends/We head out, we take pictures/We make things together, and often we cry/We kiss each other, genuine incestuous vibes.” The vocalist revealed the tune along with a black-and-white video showcasing her roaming city streets and smoking cigarettes beside huge stacks of cigarettes.
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The brand-new tune shows up days after Charli published video footage of her recording “Rock Music, “inside Paris’ Rue Boyer Studios in Oct. 2025. The saucy caption read,”a video of me making a tune called’ rock music’ that is not in fact rock music which is amusing since I never ever stated I was making a rock album. “She was describing her currentBritish Voguecover, and the publication’s description of her next chapter– the follow-up to the enormousBrat— as a “rock reinvention.”
“For me, it’s enjoyable to turn the type,” she stated in the interview. “We understand there’s gon na be individuals who are troubled by it, however that’s fine … If I ‘d made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt truly hard, actually unfortunate. We were doing our variation of analogue, which is so ridiculous and amusing, however putting it through our lens, and making certain that absolutely nothing felt too macho, was necessary.”
“Rock Music” follows 2026’sWuthering Heightsthe buddy album to Emerald Fennell’s movie starring Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, and the soundtrack to David Lowery’sMom Marywhich she added to along with Jack Antonoff and FKA Twigs. Last month, herHow I’m Feeling Nowemphasize “Party 4 U” was launched as a 7 ″ for Record Store Day.
Charli has actually been significantly active in the movie market, starring in Pete Oh’sErupjcaand theBratmockumentaryThe MomentHer approaching tasks consist of Julia Jackman’s100 Nights of Herothe Gregg Araki-directedI Want Your SexCathy Yan’sThe Galleristand a Takashi Miike motion picture, the title of which has yet to be exposed.
Charli will strike the celebration circuit this summertime, headlining Lollapalooza (July 31), Outside Lands (Aug. 7), and the Reeding and Leeds Festivals (Aug. 28 and 29). In the fall, she’ll heading both weekends of Austin City Limits in Texas, together with Lorde and Twenty One Pilots.
From Wanderer United States.