Overview
- Charli XCX disclosed in a British Vogue cover story on Thursday that she is making a rock album and said, “the dance floor is dead.”
- She described a guitar-first approach with far less Auto-Tune, working again with producers A. G. Cook and Finn Keane.
- Her team said earlier this month the project, often referred to as xcx8, was close to finished, though there is no title or release date yet.
- She wiped her Instagram and switched to a dark profile image in recent days, which points to the start of a new era.
- After the Brat tour’s nonstop schedule and reported neck nerve damage, she questioned returning to arena shows and cast the stylistic shift as a personal reset.