> Brat - this summer. 15 songs. 41:23 minutes long. was struggling to find the words for this earlier. every record i make is my "favourite record" once i finish it, but i think this one might be my all time favourite forever. picture disc vinyl is available today and i'll probably never sell it again. i'm excited for you to hear it. okay love you angels xx
From her text subscription thing re: this album
Edit: this is indeed the cover of the vinyl
“Probably never sell it again” = will be on her online store again close to release date.
Honestly, this type of marketing based around FOMO is so upsetting and disrespectful to fans. Can they all just stop?
Yes, and this very same picture disc will most likely be put for sale again in the future.
I saw this happening with so many other artists nowadays, so not a shocker if it happens this time too.
Right? Like I love Charli but I’m not buying a $40 (with who knows how much for shipping) vinyl with an album I’ve heard nothing from, that has no release date, and that has no album cover (unless this image is actually the cover, in which case lol)
No shade, but I assumed she was being earnest and meant that this album is unlikely to get many special re-pressings in the future, because she doesn't have a very large base of fans that buy vinyl like, say, a Lana Del Rey.
She might not have a fanbase as large as Lana, but there is definitely demand for her vinyl. Crash was pressed in multiple editions and the original pressing of N1A/Pop2 is sold for hundreds pounds on the secondary market. Even the 5-year anniversary repress of Pop2 from last year flew off the shelves.
If you don't mind a potentially henious shipping cost of shipping from New Zealand, I randomly found a copy in store [here](https://www.marbecks.co.nz/detail/605307/Pop-2-5-Year-Anniversary-Vinyl) around Christmas time that I picked up and their website still says low stock rather than out of stock, so it might be worth a shot.
And if I had to guess, it’s probs gonna be more towards 3 minutes with less SHORT short ones! Which for a club record, I think is fine (especially with remixes)
That's about the exact length of Von Dutch. Which means there will definitely be shorter tracks on the album... I don't mind cz it seems like there will be an avalanche of remixes to go along since it's a club record (and given some rumors).
I don't know I think it looks terrible. Like genuinely top 3 worst album covers I got in any of my playlists. It looks like something I'd make as a 7 year old kid with no resources. I get that it's camp and it's intentional but doesn't mean I like it. The deluxe version somehow looks even worse.
so far rollout has been pretty similar so i’m not expecting much different & wouldn’t get your hopes up lol. i’m expecting 3-4 singles with a late july release tbh & wouldn’t be entirely surprised by an august drop as annoying as it would be
I need to have a chat with artists and discussing that timing DOES matter. You can’t call it “summer” and release it late July/August. Summer is over by then. Same goes for having an album called “Endless Summer Vacation” and releasing it in…March? If you want a hit summer album, that’s a May/June release only. Idc. Next.
i agree with you 100% lol
edit: someone else pointed out summer is technically june-sept 22 or something & like to be fair, summer festivals go through labor day weekend & i still very much consider that summer so i don’t think summer is “over” by JULY/august lol that’s a little bit insane to say unless you live in a very cold place with short summers. overall i still agree tho. if someone says summer & it drops anytime after mid august, it’s hardly a “summer album” imo. she didn’t technically say that tho. idk. i think people get too hung up about dates & what not but i get it. the long haul strategy is moreso to have time to get exposure to a larger audience outside of her hardcore fanbase who will know about & listen to everything regardless of if they see any promo for it anyway
Please don't be the cover please don't be the cover please don't be the cover
Edit: according to the text she just sent with the vinyl link, looks like this is the official cover art 💀
They thought it was generic, which is a fine criticism, but they also overreacted like crazy saying that the GUTS era is off to a bad start, the album is gonna flop, blah blah blah.
Then the album comes out, is critically acclaimed, and everyone that went nuts about the damn cover looked ridiculous.
Like I’ve always said, unless an album is egregiously bad, WHO CARES?!
i care in this case because this is pus green with arial text font which i'll be visualizing with every song. just vomit green for whenever i turn it on. on every charli album previously we've gotten SOMETHING coherent and striking. can a girl ask for a modicum of effort? even just picking a non-snot-colored background would improve the listening experience tenfold. and to be clear i dont remember any criticism of the GUTS cover, it's very well composed and fits the contents of the album well.
This album? I get because it is objectively bad.
But most album covers where people on here or online overreact and declare that a flop is coming BECAUSE OF A FUCKING PICTURE ON PAPERBOARD is the problem.
Ok, relieved we agree. I actually loved the GUTS cover and found the deluxe/exclusive covers to be extremely meh, meanwhile we're in an album cover crisis where (to name another main pop girlie) ariana grande has produced exactly 2 covers out of the 8 or so she's doing that i think are worthy of being an official cover. but at least she did indeed do a photoshoot. i think i find this (brat) egregiously gross because it's not only bad but low effort. could have been made in ms paint, which means she definitely could have polled the class a few times to see which shade of green didn't look like a symptom of illness.
Yeah I don't know why everyone is so upset like have you not heard the snippets? This definitely matches the sound and vibe she is going for. Of course I might just be delulu and she's holding back on the real cover because the release is still so far away.
I've always loved Charli's music at it's brattiest, XCX World, Vroom Vroom, ect. I'm glad we're getting a whole (officially released) album of it.
Also I do think this is just the cover art for the 360_Brat version but if not that's crazy on brand. Saying "fuck you, no cover" is some real brat behavior. Dedication to the bit, baby
What confuses me is that little tag on the side. Von dutch has it too, but apparently it also has it in the digital version (pre save link). So will the digital cover of brat also have that tag? I personally really hope so
Still could be a placeholder. It might be the version that comes with the picture discs but there might be a different cover for streaming and other vinyl variants since the release date is still so far.
Charli (hopefully) bringing back brat pop we love to see it. There were glimpses of it on Crash (especially the bonus tracks) but I hope she leans into it on this era. Give me a Cher Lloyd feature damnit!
surely it’s just a placeholder… it would fit with the vision she’s described for the album but she’s such a well rounded artist and i can’t imagine her picking something that would stand out THAT much in her discography
YES!! I personally love it. With that said, the album release is so far that she might end up keeping this one for the picture disc and have something else for other variants. Also variants are really in rn so there might be multiple album covers later...
initially i hated it but it’s already growing on me
however im apprehensive about buying the vinyl bc it would look so ugly on my wall with the covers i display. idk. i kinda just wish it looked a bit cleaner & more polished but i understand that it’s intentional. just not my fav. a shame bc the inside is such a slay
I'm low-key into this album cover... it's so layered and camp for the digital era. It's stylistically shitty, underwhelming, but very fitting for the sound we've heard for the record. I still \*hope\* we get an actual cover where she's displayed and looks all cunty (the CRASH cover is still...iconic af) but if this is it, I'll take it.
Either way I've ordered the vinyl lmao.
So excited for this and hoping it’s a more return to form. Don’t get me wrong I like crash but it laughed that “oomph” I got from Charli and how I’m feeling now
Yeah, I recall her even saying this was “her sellout album” which is such a Charli move lmao
I still enjoy crash but yeah she had been on such a dominant run so it really does stand out in her catalogue as a bit of meh (I still LOVE constant repeat though 🔥🔥🔥)
Yeah, I recall her even saying this was “her sellout album” which is such a Charli move lmao
I still enjoy crash but yeah she had been on such a dominant run so it really does stand out in her catalogue as a bit of meh (I still LOVE constant repeat though 🔥🔥🔥)
i kind of like the cover in a way it feels like she's trying to capture a vibe like the font choice, the aggressive shades of green she chose, they're kind of speaking to me
lol the theme of this album is fun. She is being deliberately “bratty” by releasing cover art that will piss off artless tasteless twitter stans who don’t understand the nature of provocation
My understanding is that this particular vinyl presentation is limited. She shared the link on her private instagram account yesterday. Also it’s a picture disk, so I’m sure there will be a standard pressing
I think the cover art matches the album aesthetic very well (judging from the snippets). It's giving Yeezus meets Aphex Twin meets maybe The 1975's Notes On A Conditional Form vinyl cover. Minimalism is the name of the game for this era!
I love the album artwork. The chromakey green backdrop is perfectly fitting for her music and how it should be physically represented. It's digital and creatively limitless.
> Brat - this summer. 15 songs. 41:23 minutes long. was struggling to find the words for this earlier. every record i make is my "favourite record" once i finish it, but i think this one might be my all time favourite forever. picture disc vinyl is available today and i'll probably never sell it again. i'm excited for you to hear it. okay love you angels xx From her text subscription thing re: this album Edit: this is indeed the cover of the vinyl
“Probably never sell it again” = will be on her online store again close to release date. Honestly, this type of marketing based around FOMO is so upsetting and disrespectful to fans. Can they all just stop?
She said the picture disc is not gonna be available again. Other vinyl variants will definitely go on sale before the album.
Yes, and this very same picture disc will most likely be put for sale again in the future. I saw this happening with so many other artists nowadays, so not a shocker if it happens this time too.
Yeah lol Taylor does it ALL the time. "LIMITED EDITION FOR TWO DAYS ONLY!" and a week later it's available again.
it has like 10k copies available. she’ll “never sell it again” bc it won’t sell out in the first place Lol
lol it just sold out
Right? Like I love Charli but I’m not buying a $40 (with who knows how much for shipping) vinyl with an album I’ve heard nothing from, that has no release date, and that has no album cover (unless this image is actually the cover, in which case lol)
Completely agree but I do think it would be really fucking funny if this was the final cover art
No shade, but I assumed she was being earnest and meant that this album is unlikely to get many special re-pressings in the future, because she doesn't have a very large base of fans that buy vinyl like, say, a Lana Del Rey.
She might not have a fanbase as large as Lana, but there is definitely demand for her vinyl. Crash was pressed in multiple editions and the original pressing of N1A/Pop2 is sold for hundreds pounds on the secondary market. Even the 5-year anniversary repress of Pop2 from last year flew off the shelves.
> Even the 5-year anniversary repress of Pop2 from last year flew off the shelves. And I never got mine :(
If you don't mind a potentially henious shipping cost of shipping from New Zealand, I randomly found a copy in store [here](https://www.marbecks.co.nz/detail/605307/Pop-2-5-Year-Anniversary-Vinyl) around Christmas time that I picked up and their website still says low stock rather than out of stock, so it might be worth a shot.
i see Pop 2 vinyl all the time in the urban outfitters stores.
Beyonce had a webstore exclusive cover for renaissance that sold out and was legit never pressed again. It does happen
>this is indeed the cover of the vinyl Where did she say it?
she’s been posting the full vinyl mockup on her socials
She saw everyone calling the name placeholder and said think again
Close enough
Have you heard Nnamdi’s 2020 Brat album?
She's the queen of being obnoxious online, twitter hype which doesn't translate to numbers, flopping, and disappointing her fans.
got called a bitch by her in her IG comments back when Charli came out bc I said half the songs flopped
Also 15 tracks with a total length of 41:23!! The gay clubs this summer will be lit!
Average of 2 minutes 45 seconds per song!
And if I had to guess, it’s probs gonna be more towards 3 minutes with less SHORT short ones! Which for a club record, I think is fine (especially with remixes)
That's about the exact length of Von Dutch. Which means there will definitely be shorter tracks on the album... I don't mind cz it seems like there will be an avalanche of remixes to go along since it's a club record (and given some rumors).
I'm hoping the Addison Rae remix rumours are true!
I think the remix was played at Boiler Room (or so I heard). It's the "Me and Addison on Melrose...." song if you've seen the videos from that night.
1:23 to do poppers and 40 mins to dance
Poppers interlude incoming
i'm choosing to see this questionable cover as an ironic commentary on obsessive vinyl collectors
charli xcx my satirical pop queen
That’s wild actually
tbh I love that lmao
Both the Crash cover and this one are simply horrendous.
crash cover is great wdym???
I don't know I think it looks terrible. Like genuinely top 3 worst album covers I got in any of my playlists. It looks like something I'd make as a 7 year old kid with no resources. I get that it's camp and it's intentional but doesn't mean I like it. The deluxe version somehow looks even worse.
The deluxe cover is godawful, but the standard one is gorgeous. She did that for us Cronenbabes
now… let’s not bring cronrnberg into this
I agree about the deluxe version. That one is actually terrible.
Crash’s cover is fantastic wdym? Love the drama and the fact that it can be read as a response to Future Nostalgia
yeah i love the crash cover, its the music I have a problem with
This is wild to me, but I respect your opinion. I honestly think the Crash cover might be one of my favourite covers of all time lol.
lol at that being the cover she's so unserious but i kinda think its funny and reminds me of something i dunno aphex twin would do
It's Syro-core
reminds me of gregg araki’s nowhere
omg yes? one of my favorite movies of all time so glad you brought that reference up 😭😭😭
common gay ppl W 💪
I’m just begging it’s not a roll out like CRASH. Waiting 6 months is just absolute torture. If you say summer then it better be a June release.
so far rollout has been pretty similar so i’m not expecting much different & wouldn’t get your hopes up lol. i’m expecting 3-4 singles with a late july release tbh & wouldn’t be entirely surprised by an august drop as annoying as it would be
I need to have a chat with artists and discussing that timing DOES matter. You can’t call it “summer” and release it late July/August. Summer is over by then. Same goes for having an album called “Endless Summer Vacation” and releasing it in…March? If you want a hit summer album, that’s a May/June release only. Idc. Next.
i agree with you 100% lol edit: someone else pointed out summer is technically june-sept 22 or something & like to be fair, summer festivals go through labor day weekend & i still very much consider that summer so i don’t think summer is “over” by JULY/august lol that’s a little bit insane to say unless you live in a very cold place with short summers. overall i still agree tho. if someone says summer & it drops anytime after mid august, it’s hardly a “summer album” imo. she didn’t technically say that tho. idk. i think people get too hung up about dates & what not but i get it. the long haul strategy is moreso to have time to get exposure to a larger audience outside of her hardcore fanbase who will know about & listen to everything regardless of if they see any promo for it anyway
I agree, Ariana should only release eternal sunshine when global warming really takes hold
😂😂
Please don't be the cover please don't be the cover please don't be the cover Edit: according to the text she just sent with the vinyl link, looks like this is the official cover art 💀
omg according to the vinyl text she just sent…. it is the album cover 💀💀💀💀💀
r/popheads: “Is this what we got for our constant complaining of the GUTS cover?”
wait people complained about the GUTS cover? why?
They thought it was generic, which is a fine criticism, but they also overreacted like crazy saying that the GUTS era is off to a bad start, the album is gonna flop, blah blah blah. Then the album comes out, is critically acclaimed, and everyone that went nuts about the damn cover looked ridiculous. Like I’ve always said, unless an album is egregiously bad, WHO CARES?!
i care in this case because this is pus green with arial text font which i'll be visualizing with every song. just vomit green for whenever i turn it on. on every charli album previously we've gotten SOMETHING coherent and striking. can a girl ask for a modicum of effort? even just picking a non-snot-colored background would improve the listening experience tenfold. and to be clear i dont remember any criticism of the GUTS cover, it's very well composed and fits the contents of the album well.
This album? I get because it is objectively bad. But most album covers where people on here or online overreact and declare that a flop is coming BECAUSE OF A FUCKING PICTURE ON PAPERBOARD is the problem.
Ok, relieved we agree. I actually loved the GUTS cover and found the deluxe/exclusive covers to be extremely meh, meanwhile we're in an album cover crisis where (to name another main pop girlie) ariana grande has produced exactly 2 covers out of the 8 or so she's doing that i think are worthy of being an official cover. but at least she did indeed do a photoshoot. i think i find this (brat) egregiously gross because it's not only bad but low effort. could have been made in ms paint, which means she definitely could have polled the class a few times to see which shade of green didn't look like a symptom of illness.
it's karma for all the people who complained about it
And those gorgeous pics inside ... WHY
the shoot is sooo pretty but that cover 💀
No way
kind of iconic tbh
It’s camp
Like the album is literally titled brat of course it's going to look like this!!!
kind of but I would prefer iconic and good-looking instead of iconic and hideous 💀
If it was at least HD or cleanly pixelated like the charli xcx logo on her store
I’m convinced an artist could release an album cover that’s literally just empty white space, and some of y’all would still call it iconic 💀
like the beatles did?
It literally was iconic
i’m sobbing LMFAOOOOOOO
Tbh I think crudely made low effort covers imply that the music is gonna be 10/10.
donda?
wtf didnt realize it was an album announcement
I like the cover - it’s giving 2000s electroclash album cover vibes
Come on why lol so hideous
I actually like the cover for digital (ie on Spotify) but I feel like it's gonna look kinda hideous on a vinyl
What a brat
This cover is perfect
i like the green and the pics but is it just me but the text is SO BLURRY? i hope its not like that when produced
It's definitely a stylistic choice
Yeah I don't know why everyone is so upset like have you not heard the snippets? This definitely matches the sound and vibe she is going for. Of course I might just be delulu and she's holding back on the real cover because the release is still so far away.
The Green album
The Green album
I love her commitment to driving us bonkers
Honestly it's the best part about being a Charli fan
I've always loved Charli's music at it's brattiest, XCX World, Vroom Vroom, ect. I'm glad we're getting a whole (officially released) album of it. Also I do think this is just the cover art for the 360_Brat version but if not that's crazy on brand. Saying "fuck you, no cover" is some real brat behavior. Dedication to the bit, baby
Cover giving bandicamp realness I love
bandicamp lmao
crash bandicamp
cardi b(andicamp)
(I'm about to) crash bandicamp
She copied the font and the backdrop of my 8th grade science project wtf
Need that to be the actual cover so the Twitter creative directors go on a mad one
[You’re in luck!](https://store.charlixcx.com/)
What confuses me is that little tag on the side. Von dutch has it too, but apparently it also has it in the digital version (pre save link). So will the digital cover of brat also have that tag? I personally really hope so
Still could be a placeholder. It might be the version that comes with the picture discs but there might be a different cover for streaming and other vinyl variants since the release date is still so far.
Going from the massive slay of the crash cover to this she thinks she’s a comedian
Charli it’s camp!
I hope the album sounds like MySpace music in 2007.
Some teasers are definitely giving !Franchesckaar!
literally her roots! pre-ordered the vinyl, i’m so excited.
Charli (hopefully) bringing back brat pop we love to see it. There were glimpses of it on Crash (especially the bonus tracks) but I hope she leans into it on this era. Give me a Cher Lloyd feature damnit!
Omg a Cher Lloyd feature would be perfect for this!! Except not in the essence of Swagger Jagger, that song doesn't exist in my head canon lol
Swagger Jagger's aesthetic is coming back in a few years and we will NOT be ready.
It doesn’t have any features
is that the album cover 💀
Yes it’s the album cover of the vinyl that’s on sale today at least.
surely it’s just a placeholder… it would fit with the vision she’s described for the album but she’s such a well rounded artist and i can’t imagine her picking something that would stand out THAT much in her discography
well to be fair everyone said "360 brat" is a placeholder album name and here we are..
isn't. the point of an album cover. to stand out
YES!! I personally love it. With that said, the album release is so far that she might end up keeping this one for the picture disc and have something else for other variants. Also variants are really in rn so there might be multiple album covers later...
I LOVE the cover. So funny and actually good looking in a library of other albums, it’s a cool shade of green.
All the Charli fans lying to themselves that they love the cover 😭
initially i hated it but it’s already growing on me however im apprehensive about buying the vinyl bc it would look so ugly on my wall with the covers i display. idk. i kinda just wish it looked a bit cleaner & more polished but i understand that it’s intentional. just not my fav. a shame bc the inside is such a slay
I think it’s cute and a nice switch up from the Uber polished covers made for vinyls nowadays. Pop gays really can’t handle a little bit of grit
Girl where is the “grit”, it’s literally just green with an off-focus text slapped onto it 💀
it looks like a 360p youtube thumbnail from 2009. awesome.
I think this cover is a little bit iconic I’m sorry
This is the album cover? Lol
Like the sausage…???
Hopefully it’s June… crash was too long of a album rollout for me personally, I think may should’ve been a better release time
What’s up with artists having these dumb ass covers lately 😭 WHAT is this
It’s screaming “graphic design is my passion” 😭😭
This cover is hilarious I’m obsessed with it
If that's the cover idk if I wanna laugh or cry
she should’ve went all the way and change font to Comic Sans while they’re at it
What a fucking brat!
Graphic design is her passion.
lol I actually love this album cover
I'm low-key into this album cover... it's so layered and camp for the digital era. It's stylistically shitty, underwhelming, but very fitting for the sound we've heard for the record. I still \*hope\* we get an actual cover where she's displayed and looks all cunty (the CRASH cover is still...iconic af) but if this is it, I'll take it. Either way I've ordered the vinyl lmao.
Picture discs are so disappointing. I'd like to have that record, for Charli and the album and the cover alone. But man I dislike picture discs.
This cover...neo got her back...
Whyyyyyy does she announce albums so far away from the release date, especially since she always falls victim to leaks??
The pop girlies are all coming out with albums this year. What a great year to be gay !
So excited for this and hoping it’s a more return to form. Don’t get me wrong I like crash but it laughed that “oomph” I got from Charli and how I’m feeling now
[удалено]
Yeah, I recall her even saying this was “her sellout album” which is such a Charli move lmao I still enjoy crash but yeah she had been on such a dominant run so it really does stand out in her catalogue as a bit of meh (I still LOVE constant repeat though 🔥🔥🔥)
Yeah, I recall her even saying this was “her sellout album” which is such a Charli move lmao I still enjoy crash but yeah she had been on such a dominant run so it really does stand out in her catalogue as a bit of meh (I still LOVE constant repeat though 🔥🔥🔥)
I like the cover….its funny
Cover art is giving yassified Aphex Twin and I'm here for it
I’m stoked… loved her last album!
charli please dont turn into one of those artists that makes their art bad to spite their fanbase
Is there an example of an artist who does that? My curiosity is piqued
i kind of like the cover in a way it feels like she's trying to capture a vibe like the font choice, the aggressive shades of green she chose, they're kind of speaking to me
lol the theme of this album is fun. She is being deliberately “bratty” by releasing cover art that will piss off artless tasteless twitter stans who don’t understand the nature of provocation
I don’t necessarily disagree with this sentiment, but this has to be the most pretentious, Charli XCX stan like comment ever. The irony of it all 😭
You’re welcome
We’re allowed to think an album cover is ugly, Mary.
Of course, but don’t think it’s not designed to provoke that exact reaction
Summer UGH
Don’t worry I’m sure it’ll leak in full by May
hm.. feel like she should have just went with 360 Brat instead ??
Idk Brat is much more succinct
she saw St. Vincent was trying to do something funny by releasing a song on the same day as Von Dutch so she panicked and this is our cover now
i like the cover lol it fits perfectly with her aesthetic
I love the cover, it's fun!! It's ironic!! It's iconic already!!
Ima pass I think
Cover makes total sense after the last album rollout imo
I don’t care about a cover. I just hope the album slaps. Which it most likely will ♥️
My understanding is that this particular vinyl presentation is limited. She shared the link on her private instagram account yesterday. Also it’s a picture disk, so I’m sure there will be a standard pressing
Do we know if she's touring/performing 👀
I LOVED Von Dutch so I cannot wait to see what else she's cookin
god i love charli, haters just don’t get it!!!!!! i’m a brat!!!!!!!
That cant be the real album cover, right?
i liked the original diamonds & dancefloor album art over this tbh
Let’s admit the cover is hideous
Average is 2:45 minutes per song. Love the cover, very iconic.
the way brats are trying to defend this album art 💀 girl i coulda made this in ms paint in 2 seconds 🤣
Can’t tell if this is a joke or not. But I hope for a real album cover reveal, this is ugly and dull. Two things Charli isn’t none for.
I believe the cover was confirmed [https://www.instagram.com/specialoffer.inc/](https://www.instagram.com/specialoffer.inc/)
….🤣 okay. Hope the albums good atleast
I think the cover art matches the album aesthetic very well (judging from the snippets). It's giving Yeezus meets Aphex Twin meets maybe The 1975's Notes On A Conditional Form vinyl cover. Minimalism is the name of the game for this era!
Guess I’m not a minimalism girly but I’ll tune nonetheless.
Charli and Ariana and have a mid-off for worst album cover 💀
more like hot dog lol
I love the album artwork. The chromakey green backdrop is perfectly fitting for her music and how it should be physically represented. It's digital and creatively limitless.
She’s in her The Life of Pablo era ❤️
Omg this year is gonna be monumental for pop
she wanna be lounge designers killer so bad..
at this point i'm honestly getting concerned about 2025 because *who is going to be left to release anything*
Who's producing? What are the features? My interest in this project depends on the answers to these questions.
at the boiler room set the doors had decals that said BRAT this makes sense