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Charli XCX hijacked rock music\u2014but not in the way anyone expected earlier this year. At midnight last night, Charli dropped a new guitar-heavy track, \u201cRock Music,\u201d with a new (mostly) black-and-white video by Aidan Zamiri. It features the hyperpop icon living out some of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll\u2019s most timeless tropes: throwing a TV out of the window, head-banging, and smashing guitars.<\/p>\n
Some confusion around the song started after British Vogue<\/em><\/a> reported that Charli had decided to pivot to rock music after \u201cBrat Summer\u201d supercharged her career. People jumped<\/a> at the prospect that the hyperpop icon might genre-bend. Late last week, however, Charli posted a behind-the-scenes video from the \u201cRock Music\u201d shoot, writing, \u201cI never said I was making a rock album.\u201d To be fair, Charli\u2019s new chorus literally says, \u201cI think the dance floor is dead, so now we\u2019re making rock music.\u201d<\/p>\n Is \u201cRock Music\u201d rock music? Kind of. Yes and no. Digitally manipulated guitars form the foundation of Charli\u2019s new song, punctuated by smashing cymbals during her glitchy chorus (listed above for reference). She created the song with A.G. Cook and Finn Keane during their time in Paris, documented on her burner account<\/a> in a series of black-and-white photos fitting for the new music video.<\/p>\n