{"id":2407648,"date":"2026-05-08T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2407648"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:53:13","slug":"charli-xcx-embraces-rock-music-in-new-song-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/charli-xcx-embraces-rock-music-in-new-song-and-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Charli XCX Embraces \u201cRock Music\u201d In New Song And Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ever since <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thephrasemaker.com\/tag\/charli-xcx\/\">Charli XCX<\/a> teased that she\u2019s going to be \u201cmaking rock music,\u201d all sorts of theories regarding the pop star\u2019s musical direction started to appear. That caused so much confusion that the artist had to clarify some things on Instagram herself, stating that she never explicitly said she \u201cwas making a rock album.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, it all makes sense now, as Charli XCX has released a brand new track called \u2018<em>Rock Music<\/em>,\u2019 alongside a video directed by Aidan Zamiri.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"charli-xcx-combines-the-ashes-of-the-dance-floor-with-rock-music\">Charli XCX Combines The Ashes Of The Dance Floor With Rock Music<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p>Singing \u201cI think the dance floor is dead\u201d on her new song \u2018<em>Rock Music<\/em>,\u2019 Charli XCX stays true to her dance-punk and hyperpop ways, combining it with heavy guitars to ensure that the track lives up to its name. The artist recruits Scottish director Aidan Zamiri for the music video, who also directed visuals for the Billie Eilish remix of \u2018<em>Guess<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The two-minute music video features Charli XCX walking around, smoking cigarettes, dancing on a dance floor despite declaring it dead, and performing the song with a band consisting of George Daniel on the drums and producers A G Cook and Finn Keane (previously known as Easyfun) on bass and guitar, respectively.<\/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>\u2018<em>Rock Music<\/em>\u2018 will serve as the lead single for Charli XCX\u2019s upcoming <em>Brat<\/em> follow-up album, although the exact title and release date of the project have still not been revealed. While it remains to be seen where \u2018<em>Rock Music<\/em>\u2018 will be placed on the album\u2019s track listing, there are speculations that the song will likely be the one that kicks off the project, ending abruptly and setting the stage for what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n<p>For the past few months, Charli XCX has been more focused towards the cinematic side of things, including releasing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thephrasemaker.com\/2026\/01\/15\/what-we-know-about-charli-xcxs-new-album-wuthering-heights\/\">the soundtrack album for <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em><\/a> and starring in films such as <em>Faces of Death<\/em> and <em>The Moment<\/em>. But it appears that she has entered her new musical era with \u2018<em>Rock Music<\/em>.\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 thephrasemaker.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Charli XCX teased that she\u2019s going to be \u201cmaking rock music,\u201d all sorts of theories regarding the pop star\u2019s musical direction started to appear. That caused so much confusion that the artist had to clarify some things on Instagram herself, stating that she never explicitly said she \u201cwas making a rock album.\u201d However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2407649,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2407648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Charli-XCX-Embraces-Rock-Music-In-New-Song-And-Video.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407648","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=2407648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407650,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407648\/revisions\/2407650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}