{"id":401872,"date":"2026-04-16T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401872\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:26:07","slug":"charli-xcx-somehow-recorded-rock-album-amid-slew-of-film-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401872\/","title":{"rendered":"Charli xcx somehow recorded rock album amid slew of film projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charli xcx is not very good at sitting still. Around the end of Brat summer, she suggested she was going to take a break from being a pop star to try her hand at acting. That was barely a year and a half ago, but she sure tried her hand at acting and seems ready to be a pop star again. Or, at least, the pop star version of a rock star, according to the new music teased in a profile of the artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.co.uk\/article\/charli-xcx-british-vogue-interviewe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published in British Vogue today.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is still going to be a Charli xcx album, so we shouldn\u2019t expect it to sound like Iggy Pop, even if director Jim Jarmusch likens Charli to the punk in the profile. She does describe the new album as rock, \u201cbut what\u2019s interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be.\u201d Writer Laura Snapes remarks that, from what Charli played her in February, much of the autotune is gone, which the new music focused on Charli\u2019s voice and the guitar of frequent collaborator A.G. Cook. \u201cWe were doing our version of analogue, which is so silly and funny,\u201d says Charli. \u201cBut putting it through our lens, and making sure that nothing felt too macho, was important.\u201d She adds, \u201cFor me, it\u2019s fun to flip the form. We know there\u2019s gonna be people who are bothered by it, but that\u2019s fine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not all that surprising that she has a new album coming\u2014it\u2019s been almost two years since Brat\u2014nor that she\u2019s dipping her toes in this genre. (2014\u2019s Sucker plays in the pop-punk arena a bit.) But what\u2019s more unclear is when the hell she had the time to do this. Charli was on the road with Brat from September 2024 until August 2025, and filmed roles in Erupcja, Faces Of Death, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/the-moment-charli-xcx-sell-out-satire-eras-tour-taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Moment<\/a>, I Want Your Sex, 100 Nights Of Hero, The Gallerist, and Overcompensating. She also created an entire soundtrack album for Wuthering Heights and wrote music for Anne Hathaway to sing in Mother Mary, and is in pre-production for a new Takashi Miike movie. More like 365 working girl!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charli xcx is not very good at sitting still. Around the end of Brat summer, she suggested she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-401872","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\/401872","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=401872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}