Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat | ||||
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Released | 11 October 2024 | |||
Genre | Electropop [1] | |||
Length | 50:28 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
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Singles from Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat | ||||
Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat is the first remix album by English singer Charli XCX. It was released on 11 October 2024 by Atlantic Records. The album contains remixes of seventeen tracks from the deluxe version of her sixth studio album, Brat and It's the Same But There's Three More Songs So It's Not (2024), but also features the original tracks, thereby serving as a double album. [3]
Featured artists on the album include Robyn, Yung Lean, BB Trickz, Ariana Grande, the 1975, Jon Hopkins, Troye Sivan, Addison Rae, Caroline Polachek, Bladee, Lorde, the Japanese House, Tinashe, Julian Casablancas, Bon Iver, Shygirl, Billie Eilish, Kesha and A. G. Cook. Cook and Finn Keane primarily handled production, with XCX herself, Jon Shave, George Daniel, and featured guests Bon Iver, Casablancas, and the Japanese House, among others, contributing additional production work.
Upon release, the record received critical acclaim from critics, who considered it an innovative companion piece to the original album.
Charli XCX released her sixth studio album Brat on 7 June 2024 to critical acclaim. A variety of remixes of its songs were released throughout its album cycle before the announcement of a remix album, starting with the release of the "Von Dutch" remix with A. G. Cook and Addison Rae, on 22 March 2024. [4] Subsequent remixes of album tracks, such as "Girl, So Confusing" with Lorde and "Guess" with Billie Eilish, fueled rumors of a "remix concept". [5] [6]
Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat was announced [7] along with the release of Troye Sivan's remix of "Talk Talk" on 12 September 2024. [8] [9] On the same day, Rolling Stone announced that the remix album is set to be released on 11 October 2024. [10] [11] The remixes featuring Billie Eilish and Lorde would be a part of the album's track list, along with the remixes featuring Addison Rae, Yung Lean, and Robyn, that were released as a part of the rollout of its original tracks. [12] The timing of the album's release also coincides with XCX and Sivan's Sweat concert tour. [13] [14]
The album cover was posted with the caption "Brat and it's completely different but also still brat - out oct 11" on several of Charli XCX's social media accounts. These postings also included a link to pre-order the album within various streaming sites. [15] The track list for the album was officially confirmed on 7 October when XCX gave a fan the track list during her performance on the Sweat Tour in Orlando, and encouraged them to share it online after the show. She later confirmed this on her social media. [16] [17] The album is being sold as a double cassette, double CD, and triple LP. [18] Kesha's remix of "Spring Breakers" was added to the tracklist on 14 October 2024, three days after the album's original release.
Prior to the album's release, billboards appeared around the US, Europe, and Japan teasing new collaborations, confirming Bon Iver, Julian Casablancas, Tinashe, Shygirl, the 1975, Jon Hopkins, the Japanese House, Bladee, Caroline Polachek, and Ariana Grande for the album. [19]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AnyDecentMusic? | 8.4/10 [20] |
Metacritic | 90/100 [21] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Clash | 9/10 [22] |
The Daily Telegraph | [23] |
The Guardian | [24] |
Rolling Stone | [25] |
Slant Magazine | [26] |
The Times | [27] |
Pitchfork | 8.0/10 [28] |
NME | [29] |
Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat received acclaim from music critics, much like its original counterpart. The album holds a Metacritic score of 90 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim" based on ten reviews. [21] The review aggregator site AnyDecentMusic? compiled 8 reviews and gave the album an average of 8.4 out of 10. [20]
Caitlin Chatterton of Clash awarded the album a score of 9 out of 10, praising its innovative sound and artistic direction. [22] Rachel Aroesti from The Guardian described it as a testament to Charli XCX's "unstoppable" creative phase, giving the album a perfect score of 5 out of 5. [24]
Writing for Rolling Stone , Rob Sheffield expressed that "the Brat remix isn’t just a piece of promo product — it’s an ass-kicking party album in its own right", extending the phenomenon of "Brat Summer" into autumn. [25] Similarly, Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani felt XCX created a "self-reflexive reaction to her success with a companion piece that’s just as relevant—and just as reflective of the zeitgeist—as its parent album. [26]
The Daily Telegraph gave a mostly positive review, highlighting the star power of the album's many collaborators, but questioned if the myriad of features was a "cynical marketing ploy [...] designed to go viral". [23]
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "360" (featuring Robyn and Yung Lean) |
| 2:09 | ||
2. | "Club Classics" (featuring BB Trickz) |
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| 2:54 | |
3. | "Sympathy Is a Knife" (featuring Ariana Grande) |
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| 2:34 |
4. | "I Might Say Something Stupid" (featuring the 1975 and Jon Hopkins) |
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| 4:10 |
5. | "Talk Talk" (featuring Troye Sivan) |
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| 2:53 |
6. | "Von Dutch" (A. G. Cook remix; featuring Addison Rae) |
| Keane | Cook | 2:37 |
7. | "Everything Is Romantic" (featuring Caroline Polachek) |
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| 3:23 |
8. | "Rewind" (featuring Bladee) |
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| 2:42 |
9. | "So I" (featuring A. G. Cook) | Aitchison |
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| 4:39 |
10. | "Girl, So Confusing" (featuring Lorde) |
| Cook | Cook | 3:25 |
11. | "Apple" (featuring the Japanese House) |
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| 2:37 |
12. | "B2B" (featuring Tinashe) |
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| Keane | 2:33 |
13. | "Mean Girls" (featuring Julian Casablancas) |
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| 3:46 | |
14. | "I Think About It All the Time" (featuring Bon Iver) |
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| 3:20 |
15. | "365" (featuring Shygirl) |
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| 2:01 |
16. | "Guess" (featuring Billie Eilish) |
| 2:23 | ||
17. | "Spring Breakers" (featuring Kesha) |
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| 2:22 |
Total length: | 50:28 |
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