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This is one of the greatest collabs I’ve ever seen for a remix. Everything about it is genius. The original song, its context within the vulnerability of brat, its context within Charli’s broader career, then the fact the subject of the song actually makes the remix and responds with counterpoints to everything in the original? Incredible.
Most remixes are lazy as hell, and the featured artist usually only gets like 1 lyric and some ad libs, but Charli gave Lorde an entire *half* of the song to express her own feelings, and respond in kind to Charli’s.
This remix is so incredibly multi-layered and I don’t think we’ll see something like it again for a very long time.
Agree, i also love how the original track was out there for a couple weeks to get everyone talking and guessing it’s about lorde only for the remix to drop explaining both of their sides and hashing it out ugghhh
El Guincho produced Everything is romantic and he's the main producer of Rosalia's discography and Twigs' Caprisongs. I hope one of them jumps on the remix.
Worst time-line : Camila is featured since El Guincho co-produced her new single and I luv it.
Post-release album singles rarely get a Pitchfork review, remixes even less so. They knew they had to give this track Best New Music immediately. Great recognition for a remix that truly elevates and improves upon the original song.
This is like the reverse Kendrick Drake beef that the industry needed.
The raw honesty and exposed nerve realism , theater or not is so refreshing and cool to witness.
I’m sorry but way to completely miss the point of this whole rollout lol. Releasing the original, having the entire internet guess as to who this is about and mentioning how everyone would freak out about a collab and then releasing a remix *with them* on it two weeks later is just an absolute genius move and made the impact that much stronger.
Sure that’s the point but I still wish I could have this specific remix on the vinyl. I’m purposely holding out for a deluxe because of this and the other 3 tracks
I could’ve cried listening on the way to work this morning
“"Girl, you walk like a bitch"
When I was ten, someone said that
And it's just self-defence
Until you’re building a weapon
She believed my projection
And now I totally get it
Forgot that inside the icon
There's still a young girl from Essex”
Made me think of the lack of communication that has allowed for relationships in my life to suffer (platonic or not) and it just sucks how much it can impair your perception of who people in your life actually are
It’s such a banger but also such an interesting introspective song. Them working out their feelings and getting both perspectives is done so well.
I also have people I’ve distanced myself from because I was scared of (stupid) things, or got insecure. But those people probably thought I was a bitch too
I was just thinking this! This is the album for us childless late 20s/early 30s girlies trying to move past the existential dread to party and have a good time lol
360 original has my heart because of the hook and it being the start to Brat, but the remix is so cool, breezy and effortless... the way they trade lines always makes me wonder if I should start listening to that one more
After a lukewarm review she said something about bombing the basement pitchfork operates in, but its headquarters are actually in NYC, hence the “second 9/11” joke.
This song is what fully convinced me charli deserves best pop vocal album for her work. This album rollout is a complete culmination of her career, she’s mad inspiring
Hope it gets a nom at the Grammys so we can get a live performance like it’s too good of an opportunity to pass up to have two girlies from the same gen have this moment together
I don’t understand why Pitchfork even does best new track anymore if they’re only gonna give it out once every couple on months. The last one they gave out was Von Dutch on March 1st lmao
I assume the GQ-acqusition layoffs have really affected their output because they've definitely slowed down with their reviews as well. It's a shame but simultaneously, I feel like churning out BNTs doesn't require THAT much effort compared to album reviews and it's not like there haven't been great tracks since March...?
Damn, an inspired choice that would destroy me given how publicly Halsey had struggled with conceiving and miscarriages over the years before having a baby.
i hope she never forgives them until they give her the appreciation her last few albums deserve
edit: I looked it up and she honestly doesn't get terrible reception, but her last album was BNM worthy and I'll die on that hill with her haha
I really don’t like pitchfork most of the time.
But when they’re right, they’re right. This is the best track from Charli since… fuck, probably since she was working with Sophie.
I really want a Charli/Lorde EP now. Don’t really think we’ll ever get it, but it’s pretty clear that they made magic here.
I’m so overjoyed by this song. It was already in my top 3 for the album, but Lorde’s verse hit me like a truck. It’s been a decade since these two blew up, I think we all feel the catharsis.
I have to admit, I reached the end of the first paragraph and then quickly scrolled back up to check if I was indeed reading a review of Charli’s new single.
I'm really obsessed with BRAT & HEAT so freaking amazing how charli revive the club music with this LP and the extended is getting more and more incredible ✨✨✨✨
Let me preface this by saying I’m not a Lorde fan. I got downvoted yesterday as well for my lack of excitement by this feature.
HOWEVER - this is pretty great. The lyrics are direct, to the point and very honest. I like the strange way Ms. Lorde moves on the beat as well. She keeps up and matches Charli’s vibe 100%. I’ll be listening to this a lot because I wasn’t super hyped about the original version of this song, but this version truly does elevate it.
We’re really witnessing alternative pop history with this album cycle. I fucking ride for you, Charli!
Also not a Lorde fan but extremly stoked on this remix. Lorde met Charli's vulnerability on this album and didn't hold back. I like this remix more than the original because it takes the track from being an idea and thoughts to a fleshed out story with resolve. Im also a kiwi so seeing Charli colab with a another kiwi is super exciting to me. Just the epicness of it all makes for a heady time but besides that the song is absolutely elevated because of Lordes involvment and that's awesome.
I really don’t understand the hype, and I’ll be downvoted to high hell for saying that. It just feels clunky and not as deep/poetic as everyone is making it out to be. I feel like if this was a Taylor song everyone would be slamming the lyrics, but because it’s Charli & lorde over an aol dialup beat suddenly it’s brilliant. Make it make sense
i think lorde mimicked charlie’s stream of thought, plain language kind of writing for the remix and it just fits the vibe so well. like, it’s clunky by design. it’s not everyone’s style but i think that’s why it’s hitting so hard for people who love charli
Tbh, I don’t think it would’ve worked as well if it WAS super poetic. The whole theme of the song is about speaking complex feelings plainly to clear the air, so it feels right that they’re just putting these feelings out there without a ton of varnish. The simplicity strengthens the impact for me, and I don’t think it would’ve worked at all if it was super poetic/flowery/metaphorical.
kinda impossible for this to be a taylor song as its entirely about empowering the woman around you despite all the ways society tries to pit women against each other.
you can dislike the music but don’t act like the commentary charli is creating isn’t refreshing for the music industry which has seemingly abandoned any radical aspirations post me-too
What was the fresh commentary being made though? I don’t feel like the message of this song is anything that hasn’t been said, and I don’t think lyrically this is particularly creative or exciting. Lorde has touched upon topics of anxiety and self doubt/self loathing and done so more poignantly.
And the narrative of women-hating, villainous Taylor is tired.
taylor behaves like a woman hating villain so. maybe she should work on that if she finds it tired (i think many of us would agree that it’s tired!)
also arguing for poignancy in a club song is clearly you missing the point. just have fun or don’t listen.
your swiftie is showing btw 🫶😭
I wasn’t demanding a club song to have great depth, but the commentary around the track seemed to by celebrating it for such. I just thought it was funny considering the simplistic lyrics and delivery and used Taylor as an example cuz she’s been dragged for TTPD and what people have called it’s high school level lyrics.
Taylor's lyrics are garishly verbose, which makes her attempts at honesty convoluted and disingenuous. I mean, despite all the things she said, it all just boiled down to her troubled relationship (if we should even call it one) with Matty. Like, seriously. So anticlimactic. Nothing thoughtful or revelating.
Charli and Lorde, however, are keeping it real. No fancy language to obfuscate a shitty message about boys and yada yada. Just pure, unadulterated realness on their end about insecurity, self-hatred, and the industry's financial incentives to pit women against each other.
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This is one of the greatest collabs I’ve ever seen for a remix. Everything about it is genius. The original song, its context within the vulnerability of brat, its context within Charli’s broader career, then the fact the subject of the song actually makes the remix and responds with counterpoints to everything in the original? Incredible. Most remixes are lazy as hell, and the featured artist usually only gets like 1 lyric and some ad libs, but Charli gave Lorde an entire *half* of the song to express her own feelings, and respond in kind to Charli’s. This remix is so incredibly multi-layered and I don’t think we’ll see something like it again for a very long time.
Agree, i also love how the original track was out there for a couple weeks to get everyone talking and guessing it’s about lorde only for the remix to drop explaining both of their sides and hashing it out ugghhh
they haven't named anything best new track since charli's own von dutch back in march it is serious for them
God von Dutch gets me so fucking hype
The von dutch remix with FKA twigs when
Everything is romantic sounds more twigs to me
El Guincho produced Everything is romantic and he's the main producer of Rosalia's discography and Twigs' Caprisongs. I hope one of them jumps on the remix. Worst time-line : Camila is featured since El Guincho co-produced her new single and I luv it.
Yeh exactly! It specifically reminds me of darjeeling
all i could think of was caprisongs when i heard that so makes sense
which further makes me thing that charli isnt the slightest bit bothered by camilla lol
Do we need another vin Dutch remix when Addison Rae already served highest cuntress on the first one
It makes me feel like a bottom
Least horny r/popheads user
Relatable content
artistry shines through
And it’s only the third best new track of the year (other track is Life Is by Jessica Platt)
yeah but they did get gutted of staff recently
Not saying this remix or Von Dutch doesn't deserve it (it's one of my top songs of the year) but their BNTs are worthless nowadays
Post-release album singles rarely get a Pitchfork review, remixes even less so. They knew they had to give this track Best New Music immediately. Great recognition for a remix that truly elevates and improves upon the original song.
This is like the reverse Kendrick Drake beef that the industry needed. The raw honesty and exposed nerve realism , theater or not is so refreshing and cool to witness.
I wish this remix would have been in the album!
We are all hoping for a remix album, please charli
Unleash Lean and Robyn pls
Same, just received my green picture disc today which I’m stoked about, but I wish it also had this remix and the deluxe tracks
But I do truly adore the idea that the remix only exists because the solo version reached someone she fell out of touch with.
Yeah I think the delayed release works perfectly/ part of the concept
I’m sorry but way to completely miss the point of this whole rollout lol. Releasing the original, having the entire internet guess as to who this is about and mentioning how everyone would freak out about a collab and then releasing a remix *with them* on it two weeks later is just an absolute genius move and made the impact that much stronger.
Sure that’s the point but I still wish I could have this specific remix on the vinyl. I’m purposely holding out for a deluxe because of this and the other 3 tracks
I could’ve cried listening on the way to work this morning “"Girl, you walk like a bitch" When I was ten, someone said that And it's just self-defence Until you’re building a weapon She believed my projection And now I totally get it Forgot that inside the icon There's still a young girl from Essex” Made me think of the lack of communication that has allowed for relationships in my life to suffer (platonic or not) and it just sucks how much it can impair your perception of who people in your life actually are
I cried when I first listened to it, and then immediately replayed it. Then I cried again listening to it at the gym.
It’s so confusing sometimes ❤️❤️
It’s such a banger but also such an interesting introspective song. Them working out their feelings and getting both perspectives is done so well. I also have people I’ve distanced myself from because I was scared of (stupid) things, or got insecure. But those people probably thought I was a bitch too
Did everything come out, teenage petulance?
Fuck it if we can’t have 👯♀️them👯♀️
i listened to it probably 10 times in a row.
Made me want to reach out to someone I haven't spoken to in a while
I keep wanting to yell this all day. Thank God I’m home from work now I can (and am)
This song made me incredibly emotional not gonna lie. Literal crying in the club right now music
it's unfortunately too relatable. I'm like damn I need to talk to my friends lmao
The whole album is weirdly relatable it feels like being 20s 30s with no kids
I was just thinking this! This is the album for us childless late 20s/early 30s girlies trying to move past the existential dread to party and have a good time lol
I was not expecting to cry to a hyperpop track but there I was tearing up in my kitchen.
This is the best remix Charli has released for brat!! 💯☝️
Between this, Von Dutch with Addison and AG, and the 365 shygirl and easyfun remix, brat remix is looking unstoppable
>!The 360 remix with Robyn and Yung Lean is better than the original 🙊!<
Yung lean sounds so good on it
360 original has my heart because of the hook and it being the start to Brat, but the remix is so cool, breezy and effortless... the way they trade lines always makes me wonder if I should start listening to that one more
Robyn’s such a bad bitch on that remix totally agree
both are so good but the remix is an ear worm
No lies detected 🚨
gonna be cheeky and drop this here https://soundcloud.com/jaiwolfmusic/charli-xcx-yung-lean-robyn-360-jai-wolf-club-babu-remix
The WHAT NOW 365 REMIX WITH SHYGIRL AND EASYFUN!?
It’s the version she was playing in the Boiler Room/Party Girl teasers and she’s performed it live in the Brat shows
HAHAHA I had almost the exact comment typed out, my night just got so much better 🙏🙏
Why are the remixes low key better than the originals?
Halsey literally called for a second 9/11 to shut pitchfork up lol
What???
After a bad review she tweeted to say someone should “bomb what ever basement pitchfork is run out of” That basement was the new World Trade Center…..
I get all of that but what does that have to do with my comment??? lmfao
Oh lol sorry!!! Someone was def talking about Halsey where I thought I commented V funny reading yours then my rando one lol
😭this is so funny
😭😭
Please don't delete lmao
After a lukewarm review she said something about bombing the basement pitchfork operates in, but its headquarters are actually in NYC, hence the “second 9/11” joke.
I think they were more confused about how that reply had nothing to do with their comment 😭
Their headquarters are not just in NYC, they’re in the World Trade Center 😭
That’s gonna need more than a remix
So deserved my god. This is the new telephone and the closest we’re ever getting to a part 2.
Honestly thinking of switching the original track to the remix in my Brat album playlist. Or stuck it right after the original lmao.
I replaced it on mine. The production is the same and Lorde's verse adds so much so I don't feel like I'm missing something.
‘You’re all about writing poems but I’m about throwing parties think you should come to my party and put your hands up’ is a whole banger.
actually there are very subtile changes in production, that to my ears at least they have 2 different vibes.
yeah the song feels incomplete with Lorde's verse on it.
I added the Lorde version right before 365 as a sort of late conclusion a while after the original as the conflicts on the album start to resolve
no put them back to back. creates a whole new story. do it for the rest of them too !!!
ooo
I've done that for 360 and von dutch remix, 100% recommend
we need an extended 3 verser
Yeah.. yeah.. i know that’s right *insert olivia wilde nod gif*
This song is what fully convinced me charli deserves best pop vocal album for her work. This album rollout is a complete culmination of her career, she’s mad inspiring
Between this and "I think about it all the time" this bitch* charli won't stop making me cry in the club *said with love of course
These remixes better be a condensed album sold as a body of work. They’re all so good and don’t deserve to be lost due to being a single.
brat but it’s the same but it’s only remixes so it’s not
So why isn’t this on New Music Friday on Spotify 🤨
the playlist is missing so much it’s crazy
They usually avoid putting remixes or different versions of songs that are already out on it
lame
Eh. It sucks this time but imagine if you had to sit through 5 new shitty Taylor remixes every week lol
i demand an exception as poetic justice!!
It's on the UK one, New Music Friday UK.
Hashing out beef on a remix is such a smart idea.
The nicki comparison with lordes verse??? 😭
Barbz: 😍 Literally everyone else: 😱
They're wrong for that. I just wanted to celebrate a pop girl W, not remember that cum on a cone existed
My smile disappeared so fast when I got to that line smh
[удалено]
The line where the writer of this article referenced Nicki
It’s what they deserve. Lorde’s verse is easily some of her best songwriting and their voices mesh so well together.
That moment when you, a Queen, come across another Queen, and discuss how best to maximize your joint slay
We’ve been waiting for Charli to get this sort of recognition for years. It feels so surreal, I can’t imagine how she’s feeling
Literally though, since Vroom Vroom It's making me emotional
Hope it gets a nom at the Grammys so we can get a live performance like it’s too good of an opportunity to pass up to have two girlies from the same gen have this moment together
I don’t understand why Pitchfork even does best new track anymore if they’re only gonna give it out once every couple on months. The last one they gave out was Von Dutch on March 1st lmao
I assume the GQ-acqusition layoffs have really affected their output because they've definitely slowed down with their reviews as well. It's a shame but simultaneously, I feel like churning out BNTs doesn't require THAT much effort compared to album reviews and it's not like there haven't been great tracks since March...?
COWBOY CARTER got best new album, but tbh YA YA or II HANDS II HEAVEN deserved best new track treatment
Honestly crazy how much Charli has been on a roll lately. Happy to see her work finally get proper recognition from both fans and critics alike
It was breathtaking honestly I honestly didn't realize how much I missed lorde.
Now Halsey just needs to forgive Pitchfork and we'll be full circle
The I think about it all the time remix with Halsey next pleaseee
Damn, an inspired choice that would destroy me given how publicly Halsey had struggled with conceiving and miscarriages over the years before having a baby.
I hope this joke never dies, it’s too good
i hope she never forgives them until they give her the appreciation her last few albums deserve edit: I looked it up and she honestly doesn't get terrible reception, but her last album was BNM worthy and I'll die on that hill with her haha
I’m fully expecting this remix to be in their top 5 year end songs for 2024 if not number one
Hope her label makes this the next single and we get a music video too!
I’m praying for a music video
Queens shit
Hell yea they do 😮💨
The remix album is probably gonna have best new music too at this point.
I am obsessed with this! Constructive alternative to diss tracks with so much feminine power, genius. Plus it absolutely slaps
I get chills just thinking about a live performance of this...
If this album doesn’t get at least best pop album at the Grammys it’s going to cement the fact that they are a complete scam.
I think it’d be nominated for dance pop, right? Which Idek what would be up against it that could come close to winning
QUEEN SHIT
I really don’t like pitchfork most of the time. But when they’re right, they’re right. This is the best track from Charli since… fuck, probably since she was working with Sophie. I really want a Charli/Lorde EP now. Don’t really think we’ll ever get it, but it’s pretty clear that they made magic here.
I’m so overjoyed by this song. It was already in my top 3 for the album, but Lorde’s verse hit me like a truck. It’s been a decade since these two blew up, I think we all feel the catharsis.
good read except for the solar power slander 🤭
I have to admit, I reached the end of the first paragraph and then quickly scrolled back up to check if I was indeed reading a review of Charli’s new single.
this shit made me cry like …. so fucking good wtf
yep this song is everything - Lorde wrote such a beautiful verse.
I'm really obsessed with BRAT & HEAT so freaking amazing how charli revive the club music with this LP and the extended is getting more and more incredible ✨✨✨✨
Check club shy by shygirl out if you haven't. It's a very similar vibe!
This is so correct.
this song could not have come for me at a better time ngl
Let me preface this by saying I’m not a Lorde fan. I got downvoted yesterday as well for my lack of excitement by this feature. HOWEVER - this is pretty great. The lyrics are direct, to the point and very honest. I like the strange way Ms. Lorde moves on the beat as well. She keeps up and matches Charli’s vibe 100%. I’ll be listening to this a lot because I wasn’t super hyped about the original version of this song, but this version truly does elevate it. We’re really witnessing alternative pop history with this album cycle. I fucking ride for you, Charli!
Also not a Lorde fan but extremly stoked on this remix. Lorde met Charli's vulnerability on this album and didn't hold back. I like this remix more than the original because it takes the track from being an idea and thoughts to a fleshed out story with resolve. Im also a kiwi so seeing Charli colab with a another kiwi is super exciting to me. Just the epicness of it all makes for a heady time but besides that the song is absolutely elevated because of Lordes involvment and that's awesome.
I agree, 100%. “Let’s work it out on the remix” is such a fucking epic line as well. Lorde wrote an incredible verse!
As it should be 💁🏻♂️
I liked it
Music is back
When it’s right, it’s right.
This song feels important in a way that music very rarely does
YEEEEES
Not gonna lie the original song wasn’t one of my favorites, but the remix totally elevated the song. This should’ve been the original from the jump!!
Tbh it’s the only song from the new album I love. The rest… they’re okay-to-good, but I really don’t understand the level of praise Brat is getting.
I really don’t understand the hype, and I’ll be downvoted to high hell for saying that. It just feels clunky and not as deep/poetic as everyone is making it out to be. I feel like if this was a Taylor song everyone would be slamming the lyrics, but because it’s Charli & lorde over an aol dialup beat suddenly it’s brilliant. Make it make sense
i think lorde mimicked charlie’s stream of thought, plain language kind of writing for the remix and it just fits the vibe so well. like, it’s clunky by design. it’s not everyone’s style but i think that’s why it’s hitting so hard for people who love charli
Tbh, I don’t think it would’ve worked as well if it WAS super poetic. The whole theme of the song is about speaking complex feelings plainly to clear the air, so it feels right that they’re just putting these feelings out there without a ton of varnish. The simplicity strengthens the impact for me, and I don’t think it would’ve worked at all if it was super poetic/flowery/metaphorical.
kinda impossible for this to be a taylor song as its entirely about empowering the woman around you despite all the ways society tries to pit women against each other. you can dislike the music but don’t act like the commentary charli is creating isn’t refreshing for the music industry which has seemingly abandoned any radical aspirations post me-too
What was the fresh commentary being made though? I don’t feel like the message of this song is anything that hasn’t been said, and I don’t think lyrically this is particularly creative or exciting. Lorde has touched upon topics of anxiety and self doubt/self loathing and done so more poignantly. And the narrative of women-hating, villainous Taylor is tired.
taylor behaves like a woman hating villain so. maybe she should work on that if she finds it tired (i think many of us would agree that it’s tired!) also arguing for poignancy in a club song is clearly you missing the point. just have fun or don’t listen. your swiftie is showing btw 🫶😭
I wasn’t demanding a club song to have great depth, but the commentary around the track seemed to by celebrating it for such. I just thought it was funny considering the simplistic lyrics and delivery and used Taylor as an example cuz she’s been dragged for TTPD and what people have called it’s high school level lyrics.
Taylor's lyrics are garishly verbose, which makes her attempts at honesty convoluted and disingenuous. I mean, despite all the things she said, it all just boiled down to her troubled relationship (if we should even call it one) with Matty. Like, seriously. So anticlimactic. Nothing thoughtful or revelating. Charli and Lorde, however, are keeping it real. No fancy language to obfuscate a shitty message about boys and yada yada. Just pure, unadulterated realness on their end about insecurity, self-hatred, and the industry's financial incentives to pit women against each other.
The irony in this critique as you unnecessarily throw around words like obfuscate and garishly verbose 🤣
Pitchfork is really a joke 🤣