Charli XCX’s next album arrives in July with a cover that places three unexpected cultural figures, John Cale, Marc Jacobs, and Martin Scorsese, together in a room. The record, titled Music, Fashion, Film, follows her Brat era but follows no predictable script.
The follow-up to Brat is now official. Charli XCX will release a new album called Music, Fashion, Film on July 24 via Atlantic. The cover image, shot by Aidan Zamiri, shows John Cale, Marc Jacobs, and Martin Scorsese sitting in a room. The three figures wear ordinary clothes, arranged like a casual group portrait, but the combination is deliberately jarring. Zamiri, who directed Charli’s mockumentary The Moment and several of her recent videos, framed the shot without fanfare. It’s an image that raises questions rather than answering them, and it’s hard to imagine any other pop record introducing itself this way.
Two singles have already surfaced: “Rock Music” and “SS26.” The former sparked a small genre debate when Charli described the album as rock-oriented in British Vogue, then clarified she was quoting her own lyric, “I think the dance floor is dead / So now we’re
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