Overview
- Charli XCX released Rock Music on Friday with a roughly two-minute, mostly black-and-white video directed by Aidan Zamiri.
- The song leads with crunchy guitars but rides chopped vocals and glitchy electronics, and its chorus repeats the British Vogue–teased line, “I think the dance floor is dead, so now we’re making rock music.”
- The video leans into classic rock clichés with a TV tossed from a window, cigarette piles, smashed instruments, Times Square street shots and a staged mosh pit.
- A. G. Cook and Finn Keane co-created the track after studio sessions in Paris at Rue Boyer Studios, and the clip features cameos from both producers and Charli’s husband, George Daniel of The 1975.
- Outlets report the single as the first look at her eighth album, and Charli has told fans on Instagram that the title is tongue-in-cheek rather than a promise of a straight rock record.