She Became the It Girl of Summer 2024. Now She’s Lifting a Middle Finger to It All. - Slate Magazine

The primary impulse I have after listening to Charli XCX’s new album is not to debate whether it’s the proper, or perhaps properly improper , follow-up to the pop singer’s 2024 season -and- color -and- lexicography -defining hit record Brat . It’s to be in an arena, shouting along to David Cronenberg intoning, “They are dead, they are gone, no one lasts forever,” as he does over and over at the end of the final track of Music, Fashion, Film .