Charli XCX released Brat in June 2024, and subsequently unleashed an international cultural phenomenon. Brat Summer still kind of feels like something that happened on a different planet instead of just last year. But, there’s no denying the lasting impact of the little chartreuse record that could.

Thinking back to Brat‘s global reverberation, it’s hard to imagine Charli feeling anything but confident about her album. However, during a recent appearance on Gwyneth Paltrow’s podcast, Charli admitted that she had a completely different mindset at the time.

“I actually made this record being like, ‘OK, I’m just going to do this one for me. Maybe I’m going to get dropped by my label and that’s fine,'” she revealed. “That was kind of the headspace that I was in.”

Obviously, there’s no concr

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