That Charli XCX is a fan of Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground is beginning to become more than an anecdote. Everything indicates that the British will completely dynamite the pressure of launching the successor of ‘Brat’, a before and after in her career, giving a 180 degree turn to the club’s sound. Thus, Charli goes to … the guitars?
A few days ago, at the Australian Laneway Festival, Clair in which he has praised Lou Reed and the mythical band that he led, which has not been few.
«I had a great time and I have thought, what if we made a record with guitars or ropes … or both? The Era Lou Reed maybe, I don’t know, there I leave it, ”he said in a video uploaded to his personal Tik Tok, knowing exactly what he was saying. Could it be that the constantly mentioning Lou Reed was not a coincidence?
Charli XCX Talks About Performing ‘Sofia’ With @clairo at Laneway Festival! 💚
“What if i made a record with guitar, or strings, op? Lou Reed was Maybe. ” pic.twitter.com/omy1b6rryj
– XCX source (@xcxsource) February 14, 2025
The first news we had of Charli’s love for the Frontman came last July with shy statements for Billboard in which he confessed that he would like to “make a record like Lou Reed”: “It would definitely be a rather large turn.” Already in November, on the occasion of her SNL debut, the singer played the subliminal letter carrying a t -shirt of the Reed ‘New York’ album during the performance of ‘360’. A total declaration of intent.
Released in 1989, this album was celebrated as a return to the sound of ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’, one of the most influential and acclaimed albums in history. Last December, after receiving the Variety Award from Hitmaker of the year, Charli described this work as “the top of Dyi art and culture colliding”: “You will recognize the cover of having seen it both on the walls of a modern art gallery and in A Urban Outfitters store, ”he said in his speech, referring to the iconic Andy Warhol banana.
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At the beginning of this month, in an interview for the Grammy with Ag Cook, Finn Keane, co -producer of ‘Brat’, revealed that Charli is looking forward to “doing something completely opposite” again “:” The conversations we have had and music That we have touched these two months have been Anti-Brat, ”he said.
Although he ended by saying that he does not believe that this “stays like this”, everything that Charli has advanced on Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground during these last months would go in line with the “anti-brat” spirit that could mark his next album . There is nothing more opposite to ‘Brat’ than sixties guitars. We will have to wait.
