{"id":2147249,"date":"2025-11-10T19:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2147249"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:57:20","slug":"check-out-charli-xcxs-elegant-and-brutal-new-single-house-with-the-velvet-underground-icon-john-cale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/check-out-charli-xcxs-elegant-and-brutal-new-single-house-with-the-velvet-underground-icon-john-cale\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out Charli XCX&#8217;s &#8220;elegant and brutal&#8221; new single &#8216;House&#8217; with The Velvet Underground icon John Cale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/charli-xcx\">Charli XCX<\/a>\u2019s new single \u2018House\u2019, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/john-cale\">John Cale<\/a>, is out now \u2013 listen to the track and watch the video here.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/charli-xcx-brat-review-lyrics-tracklist-3762875\">Charli XCX \u2013 \u2018Brat\u2019 review: pop pioneer fully embraces the dancefloor<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The single is the first from the singer\u2019s album written for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/margot-robbie-and-jacob-elordi-to-star-in-emerald-fennells-adaptation-of-wuthering-heights-3796328\">Emerald Fennell\u2019s upcoming adaptation of <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em><\/a>, and it features <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-velvet-underground\">The Velvet Underground<\/a> legend Cale. The cinematic, eerie-sounding offering sees the singer move into gothic and industrial rock territory with Cale\u2019s spoken word contributions adding to the sense of foreboding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>I\u2019m a prisoner \/ To live for eternity<\/i>\u201d and \u201c<em>Am I living in another world? \/ Another world I created \/ For what?<\/em>\u201d he says as part of his monologue, while he and Charli join forces in the final third of the track to repe<i>at, <\/i>\u201c<i>I think I\u2019m gonna die in this house<\/i>\u201d over dramatic guitars<i>. <\/i>Cale then returns alone at the end to say, \u201c<i>In every room \/ I hear silence<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video, directed by Mitch Ryan, stars both Charli and Cale as well as dark, shadowy figures, and sees the former pour candle wax on her skin \u2013 check it out here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xgp7wlBfASA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Explaining how the track came about, Charli said that she got a call from Fennell last Christmas asking if she\u2019d be interested in working on a song for <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em>. \u201cI read the script and immediately felt inspired so [frequent collaborator] Finn Keane and I began working on not just one but many songs that we felt connected to the world she was creating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter being so in the depths of my previous album I was excited to escape into something entirely new, entirely opposite. When I think of <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em> I think of many things. I think of passion and pain. I think of England. I think of the Moors, I think of the mud and the cold. I think of determination and grit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that she reached out to Cale after his quote from a Velvet Underground documentary \u2013\u00a0in which he said that any song by the band had to be both \u201celegant and brutal\u201d \u2013 stuck with her.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3907240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3907240\" style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3907240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charli wrote the track for Emerald Fennell\u2019s \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019. CREDIT: Paul Kooiker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen working on music for this film, \u2018elegant and brutal\u2019 was a phrase I kept coming back to,\u201d she said, adding that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/charli-xcx-feels-so-lucky-to-have-worked-with-john-cale-as-she-teases-elegant-and-brutal-new-single-house-from-wuthering-heights-soundtrack-3906313\">she felt \u201cso lucky\u201d to get to work with him<\/a>. \u201cWhen the summer ended I was still ruminating on John\u2019s words. So I decided to reach out to him to get his opinion on the songs that his phrase had so deeply inspired, but also to see whether he might want to collaborate on any. We got connected, we spoke on the phone and wow\u2026 that voice, so elegant, so brutal.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing her music post-\u2019<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/charli-xcx-feels-so-lucky-to-have-worked-with-john-cale-as-she-teases-elegant-and-brutal-new-single-house-from-wuthering-heights-soundtrack-3906313\">Brat<\/a>\u2019, her critically and commercially successful 2024 album, Charli <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/charli-xcx-says-she-is-exploring-a-lot-of-stuff-with-strings-for-her-next-album-3905961\">told Gwenyth Paltrow on her Goop podcast<\/a> earlier this month that she\u2019s \u201cexploring a lot of stuff with strings\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Charli has previously spoken about her love for The Velvet Underground, saying earlier this year that she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/charli-xcx-wants-to-make-a-lou-reed-era-style-album-with-clairo-featuring-guitars-and-strings-3838818\">wanted to make a \u201cLou Reed era\u201d style album with Clairo<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/charli-xcx-on-the-velvet-underground-nico-this-album-is-the-apex-of-fine-art-3820172\">calling the band\u2019s 1967 debut album \u2018The Velvet Underground &amp; Nico\u2019 the \u201capex of fine art\u201d<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wuthering Heights<\/em>, meanwhile, is set for release on February 11, 2026 in the UK and two days later in the US. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/margot-robbie\">Margot Robbie<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/jacob-elordi\">Jacob Elordi<\/a> star as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Also early next year, Charli will appear in the drama film <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/charli-xcx-in-new-a24-film-teaser-the-moment-3898319\"><em>The Moment<\/em><\/a>, based on an original idea by the singer. Directed by Aidan Zamiri, it\u2019s the first co-production from her production company studio365.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charli XCX\u2019s new single \u2018House\u2019, with John Cale, is out now \u2013 listen to the track and watch the video here. 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