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BRAT - Charli xcx

on my fourth listen of brat i decided to sit down and write this review because brat is that bitch and she's relatable as fuck.

first, i want to talk about the album cover because people hate it but its growing on me. i think it makes a statement. does it look like it was made on ms paint? yes, and it probably was. do i love it? yes, like i said the green is definitely making a statement.

two songs into the album and you think its going to be the funnest time of your life at the rave and then charli hits you with Sympathy is a knife and you think oh so it's a little bit vulnerable.

people for some reason, hate that BRAT is so vulnerable, but fuck them because it fits. charli creates this god-like persona of herself on 360 and Von dutch and as you listen further it kind of breaks into this artist doubting herself and feeling jealous of the girl who's at her boyfriend's concert on I might say something stupid, Rewind, and Sympathy is a knife. on everything is romantic charli paints this image of an Italian romance. on Apple, she writes about her parents and then on I think about it all the time she talks about contemplating becoming one. the most powerful track on BRAT, in my opinion is So I which is a tribute to late producer SOPHIE who was also a friend of hers.

the sheer vulnerability reflected in these absolute bangers is what makes BRAT such a good album. so yes, every track belongs on the album. it's human and relatable and also a fucking bop because when you listen to songs like talk talk you know damn well you would kill for them to talk to you in their own made up language.