{"id":401823,"date":"2026-04-16T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401823\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:50:07","slug":"the-dance-floor-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401823\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dance Floor Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charli XCX<\/a> is making a rock album.<\/p>\n

The existence of Charli\u2019s still-in-the-works eighth studio album was confirmed in an extensive new interview with Vogue<\/a>, where she discussed the project\u2019s rock-oriented style and musical direction. \u201cI think the dance floor is dead, so now we\u2019re making rock music,\u201d she said. Rather than reprise the same hedonistic, dance-forward tenor of 2024\u2019s massively successful\u00a0Brat<\/a>, Charli is opting to swing in a different direction. \u201cIf I\u2019d made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad,\u201d she noted, saying she chose the genre of rock to \u201cbend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to writer Laura Snapes, who profiled Charli for\u00a0Vogue and heard several of the new project\u2019s songs, the album features heavily processed guitars, queasy feedback, and \u201cscuffed\u201d melodies; Charli reportedly has moved away from her signature auto-tuned vocals and opted for a \u201crough demo-like quality\u201d that feels more analogue and \u201ctruthful.\u201d And a lot like her new record Wuthering Heights<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Charli\u2019s companion album to Emerald Fennell\u2019s 2026 adaptation \u2014 the album takes on a more \u201cinternal,\u201d \u201cquiet,\u201d and \u201cearnest\u201d direction than\u00a0Brat.<\/p>\n

Thematically, the album will see Charli reflecting on her relationship with art, which she described as the \u201cjoint main love of my life\u201d alongside her husband (George Daniel of The 1975). The lyrics explore what would happen if that purpose were taken away; meanwhile, specific songs reference the \u201cobscure feelings\u201d of being married, the temporary nature of fame, the \u201cartificiality of reinvention\u201d and the performance of persona, how her foray into acting made her feel \u201cundiscovered\u201d and \u201cviolent,\u201d and one particular evening at the Parisian apartment of a \u201cphilosopher girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Though it remains unfinished \u2014 Charli\u2019s schedule remains loaded with film projects and, in the second half of 2026, headlining turns at festivals like Lollapalooza<\/a>, Outside Lands<\/a>, and Reading & Leeds \u2014 the album will be released via Charli\u2019s longtime label home of Atlantic Records. She wrote and produced the project with regular collaborators A.G. Cook and Finn Keane; significant portions were secretly recorded in Paris (specifically during Fashion Week) and finished in West London.<\/p>\n

Charli\u2019s next album (or \u201cxcx8,\u201d as it\u2019s referenced in the article) may not be completed yet, but she\u2019s in the midst of celebrating multiple other projects.\u00a0Wuthering Heights\u00a0and Charli\u2019s\u00a0Brat-parodying mockumentary\u00a0The Moment<\/a> arrived in the winter, and she\u2019s credited as a screenwriter and actor in the new film\u00a0Erupjca<\/a>,\u00a0which will hit theaters in North America on April 17th. Charli also stars in the new films\u00a0I Want Your Sex\u00a0and The Gallerist (both of which premiered at Sundance this year alongside The Moment), as well as the upcoming horror flick\u00a0Faces of Death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charli XCX is making a rock album. The existence of Charli\u2019s still-in-the-works eighth studio album was confirmed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-401823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}