{"id":2407416,"date":"2026-05-08T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2407416"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:20:17","slug":"charli-xcx-drops-guitar-driven-new-single-rock-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/charli-xcx-drops-guitar-driven-new-single-rock-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Charli XCX Drops Guitar-Driven New Single &#8216;Rock Music&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After hinting that her upcoming 8th album is inspired by rock music, <strong>Charli XCX<\/strong> has dropped a single that delivers on that promise.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p>In the aptly titled \u2018Rock Music\u2019, Charli leans into a fresh sound, driven largely by guitars and a propulsive energy. Clocking in at under two-minutes, it\u2019s short and sweet, but if this is a sign of where her next era is headed \u2013 we\u2019re in for a good time.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out below via its deliciously grunge-inspired video.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charli xcx - Rock Music (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ox1Eemj8FDo?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<\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this year, Charli spoke to journalist Laura Snapes about her latest chapter:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think the dance floor is dead, so now we\u2019re making rock music.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf I\u2019d made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad, but what\u2019s interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFor me, it\u2019s fun to flip the form. We know there\u2019s gonna be people who are bothered by it, but that\u2019s fine.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, since making those statements she has clarified the following:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI never said I was making a rock album.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, we\u2019re still pretty in the dark about what to expect from this album, but fingers crossed there\u2019s some more of what we\u2019re hearing on \u2018Rock Music\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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 rocksound.tv \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hinting that her upcoming 8th album is inspired by rock music, Charli XCX has dropped a single that delivers on that promise. In the aptly titled \u2018Rock Music\u2019, Charli leans into a fresh sound, driven largely by guitars and a propulsive energy. Clocking in at under two-minutes, it\u2019s short and sweet, but if this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2407417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[28272],"class_list":["post-2407416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-charli-xcx"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Charli-XCX-Drops-Guitar-Driven-New-Single-Rock-Music.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407418,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407416\/revisions\/2407418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}