{"id":2407249,"date":"2026-05-08T06:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2407249"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:35:12","slug":"charli-xcx-releases-new-song-rock-music-and-it-kinda-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/charli-xcx-releases-new-song-rock-music-and-it-kinda-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Charli XCX releases new song Rock Music and it kinda rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"elk-aa930e42-4330-4a93-bfaa-0faa70af0801\">Pop star Charli XCX, whose multiple award-winning 2024 album Brat was voted Album Of The Year by <em>Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, The New York Times, NME, The Washington Post<\/em> and possibly dozens more, has apparently turned to rock music.<\/p>\n<p>The English singer-songwriter&#8217;s new single, which is literally entitled <em>Rock Music<\/em>, is still pop-friendly, but it&#8217;s backboned by a stuttering guitar riff that sits somewhere between <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/your-essential-guide-to-every-hole-album\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/your-essential-guide-to-every-hole-album\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/your-essential-guide-to-every-hole-album\">Hole<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Celebrity Skin<\/em> and Elastica&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/a-beginners-guide-to-britpop\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/a-beginners-guide-to-britpop\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/a-beginners-guide-to-britpop\">Britpop<\/a>-era classic <em>Connection<\/em>. And if you&#8217;re not convinced, it&#8217;s all over in less than two minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"elk-aa930e42-4330-4a93-bfaa-0faa70af0801-2\">&#8220;I think the dance floor is dead\u2026so now we\u2019re making rock music,&#8221; Charli told <em>Vogue<\/em> last month. &#8220;For me, it\u2019s fun to flip the form. 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