- 2024-06-07
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MUSIC
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Charli XCX Premieres New Song “Talk talk” on BBC Radio 1
British singer-songwriter Charli XCX will release her sixth studio album “BRAT” on June 7, 2024.
From the album, she premiered the final promotional song “Talk talk” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders ahead of the release of the album.
The track was written by Alexander Guy Cook, Charlotte Aitchison, and Ross Matthew Birchard, Produced by Hudson Mohawke.
Charli XCX told Jack Saunders about the song, “I haven't really done it too much on this album, actually, this is one of the few songs it's about love and specifically, me meeting my fiance, which sounds like really horrible and scary to say that but whatever. So this is like one of the few songs about that. And this song is actually about like us at the NME Awards like a few years ago. So sort of staring at each other's tables, but not really like approaching each other. So I feel like the message of the song is just like, be bold and like, go and talk to your crush.”- She continued, “I mean, I think those three themes. They accurate themes, and I think honesty, almost sort of like brutal honesty at points is sort of the overarching, feeling. I think I'm saying things that I think people in my position aren't normally supposed to say. And I think that showing that level of volatility and vulnerability is, yeah, something that I think I'm quite proud of, actually.”
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The new album is her first body of work in two years since the 2022 album “Crash”
Also it is the first release under her new label Atlantic Records .
The album comprises a 15-track, featuring a club sound reminiscent of the illegal London rave scene where Charli XCX started performing when she was 14 or 15.
Charli XCX said of the album, “I almost probably should have reined in a little bit, I think. It's very direct, it's very honest, and very kind of conversational. The lyrics are kind of like texts I would send to friends, I suppose it's sort of like being in my group chat, I guess.”
She continued, “I think I was just sort of like, personally quite bored of these overly metaphorical, overly descriptive lyrics. I kind of wanted to go with something very kind of like in your face and aggressive lyrically for this record. And that sort of entailed just kind of like getting straight to the point, and really just saying things the way you would say them in a conversation. It just felt like the character of the record, really.” - source : BBC Radio 1
