{"id":2063782,"date":"2026-07-27T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2063782"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:00:53","slug":"charli-xcx-music-fashion-film-review-a-snapshot-of-stardom-from-a-true-modern-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2063782","title":{"rendered":"Charli XCX \u2013 \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019 review: a snapshot of stardom from a true modern artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Charli-XCX-Credit-Aidan-Zamiri.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"template-id-3332206\" class=\"post-3332206 tdb_templates type-tdb_templates status-publish post\">\n<div id=\"tdi_65\" class=\"tdc-zone\">\n<div class=\"tdc_zone tdi_66  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div id=\"tdi_67\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_68  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_70  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_71 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"442\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Charli-XCX-Credit-Aidan-Zamiri-696x442.jpg\" alt=\"Charli XCX Music Fashion Film Review\" title=\"Charli XCX Credit Aidan Zamiri\"><figcaption class=\"tdb-caption-text\">Charli XCX. Credit: Aidan Zamiri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_72\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_73  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_75  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_breadcrumbs tdi_76 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-breadcrumbs \" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_76\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span>Reviews<\/span><span>Album Reviews<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_77 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_77\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Charli XCX \u2013 \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019 review: a snapshot of stardom from a true modern artist<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_78 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The pop star follows up the world-conquering \u2018Brat\u2019 with a spiky \u2018rock\u2019 album that refuses easy consumption \u2013 and insists on the transformative power of art-making<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_review_overall tdi_79 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<table class=\"td-review td-fix-index\">\n<tr class=\"td-review-footer rate_stars\">\n<td class=\"td-review-score\">\n<div class=\"td-review-overall\">\n<div class=\"td-review-final-score\">4<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_80 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_80\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Karen Gwee<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_81 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_81\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2026-07-27T10:00:53+01:00\">27th July 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_82\" class=\"tdc-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_83  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_85  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>\u201cOne for them, one for me.\u201d That\u2019s a movie-making philosophy often attributed to Martin Scorsese, capturing the seesawing cadences of a film career: make a commercial project and then a personal one. It\u2019s tempting to view Charli XCX\u2019s eighth album, \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019, through Marty\u2019s mantra (he appears on the album cover, after all, alongside her other artistic GOATs John Cale and Marc Jacobs). The world turned her go-for-broke club-pop opus \u2018Brat\u2019 into the biggest album of her career and a cultural phenomenon, and Charli has responded by coolly spiking any and all ensuing expectations of her and her music.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Kim Petras: \u201cIf you think I ruined my life, that\u2019s fine \u2013 I\u2019m going to write songs about it\u201d<br \/><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When \u2018Brat\u2019 summer broke, Charli wasted little time narrativising her own dizzying rise, responding in real-time through remixes and her own satirical film <i>The Moment<\/i>. She also swiftly seized the new creative opportunities, often in film, afforded her by the commercial and critical acclaim. Charli didn\u2019t expect to follow \u2018Brat\u2019 up so soon, she told <i>Rolling Stone<\/i>: \u201cI felt very creatively drained and not inspired to write anything new. Then suddenly, inspiration came.\u201d \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019 is a snapshot of an artist in the thick of it, whose sense of self is warping on movie sets, in fashion fittings, and beneath the bad-faith glare of the (social) media machine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The album wears an ironic smirk in the face of it all \u2013 but lightly, and not always. Charli does occasionally bait the highly strung stan-puritans who clutched their pearls over the hedonistic posture of \u2018Brat\u2019 and can only think in terms of mothers or flops, eras and rebrands. These gotchas, so obvious and risible, are thankfully rare. <i>\u201cWe kiss each other, real incestuous vibes \/ I knew you\u2019d like that,\u201d<\/i> goes \u2018Rock Music\u2019; right after taunting the listener that she maybe <i>\u201cfucked your dad\u201d<\/i> on the OTT-horny \u2018Wink Wink\u2019, Charli\u2019s explanation is witheringly straightforward: <i>\u201cJust kidding, I\u2019m only saying that for effect \/ But my point is I think people can change.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charli xcx presents Music, Fashion, Film | Full Film\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hyEFDYzRYRg?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>People can change; in fact, artists must. Here, Charli and her fellow executive producers A. G. Cook and Finn Keane challenge even her most diehard fans to accept her in a new mode: \u2018rock music\u2019. It\u2019s a deceptively versatile palette: crunchy digitised rock that can balloon out into shiny alien textures (\u2018Card Declined\u2019) or compress into grunge-lite riffing that smells just a bit like teen spirit (\u2018Yeah\u2019). Crucially, it\u2019s unfriendly when it needs to be \u2013 the riffs turn booming and distorted on \u2018Persona\u2019, as ugly as the song\u2019s insufferable, hypocritical subjects.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Brat\u2019 catapulted Charli into another level of the cultural stratosphere, and \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019 \u2013 which was recorded during Paris Fashion Week 2025 \u2013 is a missive from that rarefied air. She has fun playing the villain here, often ditching the AutoTune for unadorned talk-singing, an excellent tool for embodying the dead-eyed vapidity of modern celebrity. She\u2019s never sounded more alienated than she has whisking new toys and personalities off the rack on \u2018Card Declined\u2019; her mincing delivery on the chorus of \u20182007\u2019 lends the song a self-aware preciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Charli swings between playing the game and apprehending it, showing and telling. And when she\u2019s keen to tell she does so with uncommon clarity, dispassionately breaking down her <i>\u201cpolitics as a press strategy\u201d<\/i> and <i>\u201cheritage as a USP\u201d<\/i> on \u2018SS26\u2019 while venting some of her biggest anxieties on the painfully raw \u2018I\u2019m Afraid\u2019. As we\u2019ve learned on \u2018Brat\u2019, with Charli the earnestness is sweeter when you\u2019ve had to work for it. And when you get to \u2018Magic Metal Montana\u2019, her tender ode to Cook, her longest collaborator, it\u2019s downright beautiful. Charli gives him the highest praise she could: <i>\u201cYou make it easy for me,\u201d<\/i> she murmurs as Cook\u2019s stuttering synth responds by setting us off on a glorious sprint.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\">\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>The toil and transformative thrill of artistic creation animate the most vital songs on \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019. Art\u2019s ability to let you feel <i>\u201csomething new and undiscovered \/ And something kind of violent\u201d<\/i> is enough to make you want to <i>\u201cthrow your life away\u201d<\/i>, Charli declares on the luminous \u2018Camera\u2019. And she leaves it to legendary director David Cronenberg to hammer it home on the carpe-diem conclusion \u2018No One Lasts Forever\u2019: \u201cSome artists have created art that has really survived thousands of years and that\u2019s fantastic, but experientially, for them, they are dead. They are gone. No one lasts forever.\u201d \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019 can feel fragmentary and fleeting, distracted by its imagined, hyper-contemporary audience. But its celebration of art \u2013 and its capacity to let you transcend your bounds for something new \u2013 feels urgent and timeless.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Details<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3782516 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Charli-XCX-Music-Fashion-Film-Artwork.jpg\" alt=\"charli xcx music fashion film review\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Record label:<\/strong> Atlantic Records<\/li>\n<li><strong>Release date:<\/strong> July 24, 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_tags tdi_87 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_87\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<ul class=\"tdb-tags\">\n<li><span>Related Topics<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Charli XCX<\/li>\n<li>Pop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_88\" class=\"tdc-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_89  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td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>\u201cOne for them, one for me.\u201d That\u2019s a movie-making philosophy often attributed to Martin Scorsese, capturing the seesawing cadences of a film career: make a commercial project and then a personal one. It\u2019s tempting to view Charli XCX\u2019s eighth album, \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019, through Marty\u2019s mantra (he appears on the album cover, after all, alongside her other artistic GOATs John Cale and Marc Jacobs). The world turned her go-for-broke club-pop opus \u2018Brat\u2019 into the biggest album of her career and a cultural phenomenon, and Charli has responded by coolly spiking any and all ensuing expectations of her and her music.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Kim Petras: \u201cIf you think I ruined my life, that\u2019s fine \u2013 I\u2019m going to write songs about it\u201d<br \/><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When \u2018Brat\u2019 summer broke, Charli wasted little time narrativising her own dizzying rise, responding in real-time through remixes and her own satirical film <i>The Moment<\/i>. She also swiftly seized the new creative opportunities, often in film, afforded her by the commercial and critical acclaim. Charli didn\u2019t expect to follow \u2018Brat\u2019 up so soon, she told <i>Rolling Stone<\/i>: \u201cI felt very creatively drained and not inspired to write anything new. Then suddenly, inspiration came.\u201d \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019 is a snapshot of an artist in the thick of it, whose sense of self is warping on movie sets, in fashion fittings, and beneath the bad-faith glare of the (social) media machine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The album wears an ironic smirk in the face of it all \u2013 but lightly, and not always. Charli does occasionally bait the highly strung stan-puritans who clutched their pearls over the hedonistic posture of \u2018Brat\u2019 and can only think in terms of mothers or flops, eras and rebrands. These gotchas, so obvious and risible, are thankfully rare. <i>\u201cWe kiss each other, real incestuous vibes \/ I knew you\u2019d like that,\u201d<\/i> goes \u2018Rock Music\u2019; right after taunting the listener that she maybe <i>\u201cfucked your dad\u201d<\/i> on the OTT-horny \u2018Wink Wink\u2019, Charli\u2019s explanation is witheringly straightforward: <i>\u201cJust kidding, I\u2019m only saying that for effect \/ But my point is I think people can change.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charli xcx presents Music, Fashion, Film | Full Film\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hyEFDYzRYRg?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>People can change; in fact, artists must. Here, Charli and her fellow executive producers A. G. Cook and Finn Keane challenge even her most diehard fans to accept her in a new mode: \u2018rock music\u2019. It\u2019s a deceptively versatile palette: crunchy digitised rock that can balloon out into shiny alien textures (\u2018Card Declined\u2019) or compress into grunge-lite riffing that smells just a bit like teen spirit (\u2018Yeah\u2019). Crucially, it\u2019s unfriendly when it needs to be \u2013 the riffs turn booming and distorted on \u2018Persona\u2019, as ugly as the song\u2019s insufferable, hypocritical subjects.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Brat\u2019 catapulted Charli into another level of the cultural stratosphere, and \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019 \u2013 which was recorded during Paris Fashion Week 2025 \u2013 is a missive from that rarefied air. She has fun playing the villain here, often ditching the AutoTune for unadorned talk-singing, an excellent tool for embodying the dead-eyed vapidity of modern celebrity. She\u2019s never sounded more alienated than she has whisking new toys and personalities off the rack on \u2018Card Declined\u2019; her mincing delivery on the chorus of \u20182007\u2019 lends the song a self-aware preciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Charli swings between playing the game and apprehending it, showing and telling. And when she\u2019s keen to tell she does so with uncommon clarity, dispassionately breaking down her <i>\u201cpolitics as a press strategy\u201d<\/i> and <i>\u201cheritage as a USP\u201d<\/i> on \u2018SS26\u2019 while venting some of her biggest anxieties on the painfully raw \u2018I\u2019m Afraid\u2019. As we\u2019ve learned on \u2018Brat\u2019, with Charli the earnestness is sweeter when you\u2019ve had to work for it. And when you get to \u2018Magic Metal Montana\u2019, her tender ode to Cook, her longest collaborator, it\u2019s downright beautiful. Charli gives him the highest praise she could: <i>\u201cYou make it easy for me,\u201d<\/i> she murmurs as Cook\u2019s stuttering synth responds by setting us off on a glorious sprint.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\">\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>The toil and transformative thrill of artistic creation animate the most vital songs on \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019. Art\u2019s ability to let you feel <i>\u201csomething new and undiscovered \/ And something kind of violent\u201d<\/i> is enough to make you want to <i>\u201cthrow your life away\u201d<\/i>, Charli declares on the luminous \u2018Camera\u2019. And she leaves it to legendary director David Cronenberg to hammer it home on the carpe-diem conclusion \u2018No One Lasts Forever\u2019: \u201cSome artists have created art that has really survived thousands of years and that\u2019s fantastic, but experientially, for them, they are dead. They are gone. No one lasts forever.\u201d \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019 can feel fragmentary and fleeting, distracted by its imagined, hyper-contemporary audience. But its celebration of art \u2013 and its capacity to let you transcend your bounds for something new \u2013 feels urgent and timeless.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Details<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3782516 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Charli-XCX-Music-Fashion-Film-Artwork.jpg\" alt=\"charli xcx music fashion film review\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Record label:<\/strong> Atlantic Records<\/li>\n<li><strong>Release date:<\/strong> July 24, 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/charli-xcx-music-fashion-film-review-3959104&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Charli-XCX-Credit-Aidan-Zamiri.jpg&#8221;] Charli XCX. Credit: Aidan Zamiri ReviewsAlbum Reviews Charli XCX \u2013 \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019 review: a snapshot of stardom from a true modern artist The pop star follows up the world-conquering \u2018Brat\u2019 with a spiky \u2018rock\u2019 album that refuses easy consumption \u2013 and insists on the transformative power of art-making 4 By Karen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,78],"class_list":["post-2063782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nme-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2063782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2063782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2063782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2063782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}