Year: 2024.
Country:
Charli XCX discography rank: 1 (out of 15 listed on BEA)
2024 rank: 2
2020s rank: 11
Overall rank: 604
Average rating: 77/100 (from 319 votes).
Tracks:
1. 360
2. Club Classics
3. Sympathy Is A Knife
4. I Might Say Something Stupid
5. Talk Talk
6. Von Dutch
7. Everything Is Romantic
8. Rewind
9. So I
10. Girl, So Confusing
11. Apple
12. B2b
13. Mean Girls
14. I Think About It All The Time
15. 365
indicates a top-rated track.
Top voted comments:
"As this site's #1 and possibly only Charli XCX superfan, I will say: this album showcases the best of Charli XCX's interpretation of the hyperpop genre and should be recognized along with the rest of her solid body of work as some of the best experimental artpop of this era.
The lyrics range from personal and introspective to max cringe, but what else would we expect from Charli? She has brought out the best musical ideas from AG Cook and Sophie. She complains about being "almost famous" and the lack of commercial success, but Crash was her most successful record and an absolutely phenomenal record but didn't have what made her sound so great from her "core" PC Music sound, this one has everything crash has (Talk Talk) and also the HIFN craziness on the instrumental like Club Classics. Here's hoping more people who like Lady Gaga's Chromatica, or Magdalena Bay's Mercurial World, to check out Charli XCX.
"Even though not the most groundbreaking artist, she manages to spike my interest just enough to get excited with every album. She's back with her hyperpop and electroclash bangers, and on the rest she reinvents many electronic genres from the past decades and makes them sound shiny and new.
The "queer house" dance tracks "Club Classics" and "Talk Talk". Shameless late '00s early '10s-style EDM on "Mean Girls" that makes you wanna jump into a pool with David Guetta and Akon, which I didn't think anyone would get away with in the '20s. And my personal favorite, the baroque techno mess that is "Everything is Romantic" that can only be some weird child of early M83's electro-shoegazing with early Goldfrapp's baroque electroclash.
She gets a bit personal on two tracks (and overall tries her shot at some more socially aware lyrics), which I musically do not really care for, but they don't hurt the overall flow of the album, and it does prove that she might be more of a Madonna than a Cyndi Lauper."
- Boltzmann (Rating: 70/100)
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As a day one or two Charli fan, it took me a minute to warm up to Brat. I liked it but didn't think it was meaningfully better than Charli's albums. It was, in my estimation, typically excellent. Spending more time with it, I might put it as my second or third favorite of hers. That said, I'm happy she's gotten her due with a crossover smash that everyone could fall in love with that is also totally hers.
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