Charli XCX’s meteoric rise as a mega-pop-star has been anything but meteoric. It’s been a slow, upward descent, from posting videos on a long-defunct social-media platform, MySpace, in 2008 at the age of sixteen, to signing with a record label two years later, followed by mixtapes, collabs, and ultimately, a series of albums, each one bigger than the last, culminating with the 14-track album, “brat,” two years ago and the subsequent social media frenzy that turned Charli XCX into a worldwide pop-cultural phenemenon. That might as well have been a decade ago and the late, lamented summer of 2024. Since then, “brat summer” has congealed into a rapidly fading pop-cultural, vaguely remembered collective memory. For “Charlie XCX,” the lightly tweaked iteration of…
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