charli xcx's 'brat' is the gift that keeps on giving
elena hernandez - music editor
Charli XCX dropped her much-anticipated remix album, Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat. The record includes star-studded deconstructions and re-imaginings of its many tracks. Featured on the track list include Bon Iver, Tinashe, Yung Lean, Julian Casablancas, Troye Sivan, Bladee, and the 1975.
“Sympathy is a knife featuring ariana grande,” and “Everything is romantic featuring caroline polachek,” are two tracks fans expressed the most interest in hearing. In the former track, Ariana Grande uses her verse to comment on her relationship with the, she sings, “It's a knife when you know they're counting on your mistakes / It's a knife when you're so pretty, they think it must be fake / It's a knife when they dissect your body on the front page / It's a knife when they won't believe you, why should you explain?”
The latter is a more reflective rendition of its original track. It features a phone call between XCX and Caroline Polachek, where XCX asks, “Am I in a slump? / Am I playing back time? / Did I lose my perspective? / Everything's still romantic, right?” In the following verse, Polachek sings her spin on XCX’s original verse: “Late nights in black silk in East London / Church bells in the distance Free bleeding in the autumn rain / Fall in love again and again.”