{"id":505532,"date":"2026-06-22T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505532\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:24:14","slug":"i-know-that-theres-been-a-lot-of-conversation-around-me-making-a-rock-album-which-is-something-that-i-never-said-charli-xcx-reflects-on-the-reaction-to-her-dancefloor-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505532\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI know that there\u2019s been a lot of conversation around me making a rock album, which is something that I never said\u201d: Charli XCX reflects on the reaction to her ‘dancefloor is dead’ lyric, and says she’s not about to release a rock record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charli XCX has been reflecting on the frenzied reaction to her recent single, Rock Music, and to one line from the song in particular.<\/p>\n

The pushback when Charli sang \u2018I think the dance floor is dead, so now we’re making rock music\u2019 was immediate, not least from Madonna, who responded with a caption on an Instagram post that read: \u2018If your Dance floor feels dead \/ Maybe you’re playing the wrong music\u2019.<\/p>\n

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All good fun, but XCX has now clarified what she meant by that line in an interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat lyric is very much about my relationship with Brat, and my personal experience with that album,\u201d she says, before suggesting that she still appreciates good new dance music as much as anyone.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband [the 1975 drummer George Daniel] runs a dance music label,\u201d she points out. \u201cThere\u2019s been such a wealth of incredible dance\/electronic-adjacent records that have been coming out recently, whether it\u2019s Slayyyter or Underscores or PinkPantheress. Dance music is in an incredible place.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On a similar theme, XCX also played down the suggestion that Music, Fashion, Film, her forthcoming album, will be the rock record that some people have predicted. After discussing her love of The Velvet Underground and asking herself \u201cWhat if we made a record with guitars?\u201d in 2025<\/a>, some fans assumed that this was the direction that her next album was taking, but it sounds like this isn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, I know that there\u2019s been a lot of conversation around me making a rock album, which is something that I never said,\u201d Charli says. \u201cBut to be honest, I\u2019ve never thought about genre in a binary way. I find that to be a very old-school notion. I don\u2019t even know what the genre is. It\u2019s just me and A G Cook and Finn Keane, doing our thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That means trying to avoid being influenced by anyone else, too: \u201cTo be honest, when I make music, I\u2019m thinking less about other music as a reference point. I actually shut myself off, and we just escape into our own world. I\u2019ve spoken at length about loving Lou Reed and John Cale and the Velvet Underground. But would I say that the record sounds like any of that? No.\u201d<\/p>\n

This admission comes despite the fact that XCX recently collaborated with Cale on House, one of the songs she contributed to the soundtrack to Emereld Fennell’s 2026 adaption of Wuthering Heights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the interview, Charli opens up on her relationship with the late producer Sophie, who she worked with extensively on her 2016 EP, Vroom Vroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost some\u00adone who completely changed my life, and there are a lot of feelings to work through with that, especially because they were so attached to my creative life in a really positive way, but also sometimes in a difficult way,\u201d she says. \u201cBeing able to express those feelings through my work has been really cathartic for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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