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Charli XCX Declares 'The Dance Floor Is Dead'
The untitled eighth album will replace dance beats with guitars and raw vocals, with Charli XCX saying she wants to flip the form.
- In a British Vogue interview published Thursday, pop star Charli XCX revealed her eighth studio album is a guitar-driven rock record, ditching the dance beats and AutoTune that defined her 2024 hit, Brat.
- "I think the dance floor is dead," Charli told British Vogue, explaining her pivot; continuing with dance music would have felt "really hard, really sad."
- Working in Paris last month, Charli reunited with Brat producers A.G. Cook and Finn Keane to craft the guitar-centric record, which British Vogue describes as a "rock reinvention."
- Exploring her relationship with art, Charli noted the new music investigates what would happen if her creative outlet was taken away; she also discussed her marriage to George Daniel, drummer for The 1975.
- Although the project currently lacks a release date, Charli acknowledged that pivoting to rock might bother some listeners, stating, "For me, it's fun to flip the form.
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Charli XCX Is Moving On To Rock Music Now Because ‘The Dance Floor Is Dead’
Getty Image Charli XCX’s Brat era is over. That will feel especially true when she releases her next album, which is a hard pivot into rock music. A new British Vogue feature describes a new song: “Heavily processed guitars strafe the room, then fracture along with Charli’s voice: ‘I think the dance floor is dead,’ she drawls, ‘so now we’re making rock music.'” The piece says of another song, “Queasy feedback warps beneath a dead-eyed incantatio…
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