That is, the biggest brat moments of 2024 weren’t about being mean or spoiled (per the traditional definition of the word) but about embracing a kind of unpracticed verve we could all use a little more of. Suffice it to say I had a blast listening straight through the entire LP and deciding which zodiac sign corresponds to which song. Charli herself is a Leo, which makes her "Club Classics." Keep scrolling to find out your own assignment. The Brat Pack was left for dead on the night I named them in 1985. And so, when a young girl of about sixteen approached him with a pen and slip of paper, asking him for an autograph, Rohner looked immediately at his more famous friends with a skeptical grin. I know one of them did." But the girl looked back at Rohner with that special look, the puppy-dog gaze of a groupie who has finally come face-to-face with her fantasy.
"Let’s go." So Estevez and Nelson and the Playmate and McInerney paid the check and left. It was almost midnight on a boys’ night out, and Judd Nelson and Emilio Estevez were still looking for some fun. So Estevez summoned a young writer he’d always wanted to meet, Jay McInerney—the author of a book, Bright Lights, Big City, that he’d once wanted to option and turn into a screenplay. It was 1984’s trendiest novel, and McInerney was staying at one of Los Angeles’s trendiest hotels, the Chateau Marmont, revising the first draft of the screenplay of his book. Coincidentally, the man set to direct the film version of the book is Joel Schumacher—the director of St. Elmo’s Fire. Tom Cruise grew up in the East, away from the world of Hollywood; still, he found he didn’t need much training to succeed.
"Please," she said, thrusting the piece of paper ever closer to him. He took the pen and, with a flourish, signed his name for the girl. As he finished, he looked up again at the members of the Brat Pack. It was about 11 P.M., and the Brat Pack was in full swing—on their fifth or sixth round of Coronas, and their ninth or tenth round of toasts. The small circle of stars had expanded to include several young actors of their acquaintance, not to mention the dozens of girls who continued to hover near the table. Estevez and Nelson did not, however, learn anything about the character from talking to McInerney the other night.
Like many of brat’s songs, figuring out the subject of "Girl, so confusing" isn’t difficult — which is why Charli reached out to Lorde ahead of its release. "I had to go through the process of telling her that this song is about her and her being OK with that first," Charli explains. "I was trying to meet up with her for almost a year, and we kept having this weird, like, we were [going to], then we wouldn’t.
Charli made sure to engage her fans, known as the Angels, in the lead-up by previewing unfinished demos at underground raves to create hype. She emphasized that the album needed to be delivered in a concentrated and impactful manner, carefully crafting its global momentum. The 360 singer described the visual concept as polarizing, with stark text on minimalist backgrounds. She envisioned the project as a fusion of high art and low art, aiming to bring avant-garde elements into the mainstream by incorporating mainstream celebrity culture to disrupt the norms of pop music. Charli XCX has revealed the inspiration behind her chart-topping Brat album, released in June, which defined the summer of 2024, becoming an avant-garde pop culture phenomenon. ‘brat and it’s the same but there’s three more songs so it’s not’ is the deluxe album of Charli xcx’s groundbreaking album brat generator, exclusively pressed to 2x black and white galaxy LP’s with alternative black sleeve and silver foiled sticker.
The absolute stranglehold that Charli XCX had on the world this summer is comparable to Beatlemania. With the release of her album Brat, Charli hurled us all into a hyper-sexualized, sweaty, clubby fugue state. It was a way to get ahold of the younger generation, to make them stop and look and acknowledge things. For artists and fans, the Brat generator brat serves as a canvas for artistic exploration.
