{"id":348058,"date":"2026-09-16T05:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348058\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T05:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:13:31","slug":"charli-xcxs-music-fashion-film-tour-in-brooklyn-review-setlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348058\/","title":{"rendered":"Charli xcx’s \u201cMusic, Fashion, Film Tour\u201d in Brooklyn: Review + Setlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charli xcx\u2019<\/a>s\u00a0\u201cMusic, Fashion, Film Tour\u201d<\/a> is pretty literal. At her Monday, September 14th show at Brooklyn\u2019s Barclays Center \u2014 just the second stop on the trek \u2014 all three elements of that title were on display.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the music: a whopping 29 songs, including all 11 from her great new album Music, Fashion, Film<\/a>, along with a pair of unreleased B-sides. There\u2019s fashion: multiple costume changes (including a leather minidress that reads, \u201cI\u2019VE HAD SEX WITH CHARLI XCX\u201d), flashy runway sequences, and a confetti cannon during \u201cGuess\u201d that launch a barrage of Charli xcx-branded panties in the air. And then there\u2019s film: Charli is performing for us while very explicitly performing for the camera, dialing up the drama and imbuing the show with cinematic movement.<\/p>\n

These three mediums are reflected so thoroughly within Charli\u2019s new tour that their presentation is almost incongruous with the themes on her album, which have much more to do with the artistic process than the completed product. Much of Charli\u2019s recent work has been self-reflective and, to a degree, raw; the \u201cMusic, Fashion, Film Tour\u201d leaves behind Charli\u2019s usual impulsiveness in favor of a more refined spectacle. It\u2019s a deliberate pivot \u2014 one that positions her current era against the rich pop traditions she\u2019s inherited.<\/p>\n

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One way of looking at the \u201cMusic, Fashion, Film Tour\u201d is as the apex of Charli\u2019s exploration of \u201crock stardom,\u201d an ethos she toys with throughout her new album. For the first time in years, she\u2019s brought along a full band to play the new songs, providing faithful renditions without any substantial deviations. They may mimic the arrangements of Music, Fashion, Film a little\u00a0too well, but their rockstar posturing onstage and interplay with Charli on songs like \u201c2007\u201d and \u201cYeah\u201d are fun nods to the album\u2019s meta themes; sometimes it feels like they\u2019re hired actors performing the part of \u201cCharli xcx bandmates.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the pyro, and boy, is there pyro: Flame cannons, fireworks, a large blaze at the foot of the stage as she sings \u201cI\u2019m Afraid\u201d (the most explicitly emo song on her new record). The blasts of fire help bring a sense of drama to the performance and establish that this is a version of Charli xcx that leans into more visceral spectacle instead of sleek minimalism. Do we need fireworks exploding to the beat of the climax to \u201cHouse,\u201d her goth-rock Wuthering Heights collab with John Cale? No \u2014 but is it awesome? Of course!<\/p>\n

Given the sparse, club-centric aesthetic of her Brat-era shows, it tracks that Charli \u2014 now firmly in pop\u2019s A-list \u2014 would scale up her production. After all, in addition to exploring the joys of the artistic process, Music, Fashion, Film also reckons with the cost of pursuing artistic greatness, and the meaning\/meaninglessness of that very quest. The heavy weight of these ideas is rendered light via minimalist arrangements and tinny timbres on the record, but that\u2019s a challenging tension to reflect in an arena tour.<\/p>\n

Not to mention the fact that\u00a0Brat and her prior works employed wildly different aesthetics, and \u2014 as we saw in her 2026 film The Moment<\/a> \u2014 Charli also feels an obligation to deliver a pristine, capital-P Pop Show, no matter how much she dissects the machine behind it. So as much as I would have loved a version of her tour in which Charli destabilizes her own production and buckles under the weight of her own artistic quest, that just isn\u2019t realistic.<\/p>\n

Luckily, though, the old songs \u2014 those from Brat\u00a0included \u2014 now stand in for the chaotic, post-pop lineage that brought Charli to this moment. \u201cTrack 10\u201d and \u201cVroom Vroom\u201d have become the centerpieces of her back catalogue. The former is Charli\u2019s most complete fusion of raw emotion within the refined framework of a Top 40 pop song, the one that revealed the true depth of her inner life while simultaneously surrendering to the blueprint. Then there\u2019s \u201cVroom Vroom,\u201d which is so in tune with the current sound of pop that it\u2019s genuinely remarkable that it came out 11 years ago. Before KATSEYE, before Slayyyter, before AD\u00c9LA, there was \u201cVroom Vroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other older tracks also help put Charli\u2019s journey in perspective. Hearing the vocal contrast between surprise song \u201cNext Level Charli\u201d and newer cuts like \u201cSS26\u201d is actually jarring, and \u201cNext Level Charli\u201d only technically came out seven years ago. Her level of versatility and control, autotuned or not, suggests that Charli has quietly developed into one of the most commandingly precise vocalists in modern pop. The way she can turn her bratty sneer on and off to make way for either sincerity or chaos helps root these shows in her singular persona. \u201cIt\u2019s Charli, baby,\u201d she cooed before closing the show with \u201cNothing Lasts Forever,\u201d her signature catchphrase a reminder that she is, and has always been, an unmistakeable pop auteur.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard not to center on the final tableau offered on the \u201cMusic, Fashion, Film Tour\u201d: It\u2019s Charli, her dancers, and her band, frozen in a clump as David Cronenberg\u2019s voiceover tells us, \u201cThey are dead, they are gone, nothing lasts forever, oblivion is freedom.\u201d Here, the flame cannons erupt again, and the onstage display finally begins to glitch out. The illusion dissolves, the lights flicker and die out. Charli and her crew remain frozen. For a performer who has spent her career wrestling with the tension between the raw art and the finished product, it\u2019s the ultimate exit: static, surreal, and completely on her own terms.<\/p>\n

Get tickets to Charli xcx\u2019s upcoming \u201cMusic, Fashion, Film Tour\u201d dates here<\/a>, and use code\u00a0COS20 to save $20 on your first order over $200.<\/p>\n

Charli xcx @ Barclays Center in Brooklyn \u2014 September 14th Setlist:
Rock Music
Yeah
Apple
Wink Wink
Persona
Card Declined
I\u2019m Afraid
Track 10
Girl, so confusing
pink diamond
House
Next Level Charli
Dying for You
Club classics
365
360
Sympathy is a knife
Von dutch
Unlock It (with Kim Petras)
Guess
If You Take Away the Music Then What Has She Got?
2007
Camera
party 4 u
Vroom Vroom
Playboy Bunny
Magic Metal Montana
SS26
No One Lasts Forever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charli xcx\u2019s\u00a0\u201cMusic, Fashion, Film Tour\u201d is pretty literal. At her Monday, September 14th show at Brooklyn\u2019s Barclays Center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-348058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}