Charli XCX Returns to the Club on New B-Side ‘I Keep Thinking About You Every Single Day And Night’

The track contrasts with the raucous “Rock Music” by settling into a late-’90s club pulse while lyrically staying just as confrontational.

Charli XCX didn’t wait long to complicate the picture. Just days after the distorted, pop-punk-leaning single “Rock Music,” she released the B-side “I Keep Thinking About You Every Single Day And Night.” The song pulls back from aggression and lands somewhere softer, built around a crisp, mid-tempo beat and synth lines that nod to late-’90s club music.

Lyrically, though, the mood remains sharp. “Now I’m wondering if I maybe could be gay / But come on, look at me, I’m probably not,” she sings, later flipping the inquiry outward: “I’ve always wondered if you were actually gay / Or if that’s something you just say.” The lines sit somewhere between confession and provocation, fitting into the same uneasy space that “Rock Music” carved out.

The two tracks together don’t point to a single direction so much as a deliberate friction. Charli XCX appears to be trading in quick reversals, building a roll-out that is as much about contrast as continuity.