After two years of Brat- mania , Charli XCX looks like she’s ready to turn a new page. She’s gotten married twice, embraced her acting chops , and started posting sprawling reviews on Letterboxd . But now, it seems, she’s pivoting to yet another new artistic medium: blogging on Substack .

On Wednesday, the pop star posted her first blog-slash-essay as itscharlibb (no caps) on Substack, where she mused about the meaning of her art, what Brat has morphed into in the hands of her fans (“the umbilical cord is cut and naturally everyone begins to project the work onto themselves”), and whether releasing an album is akin to birthing a baby. On this last point, she concludes: “Obviously to most people a baby is not the same as an album, but to me it kind of is … Clearly I’m not r

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