{"id":120982,"date":"2024-08-26T17:09:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/26\/charli-xcx-wanted-the-kamala-brat-meme-to-happen-she-didnt-plan-on-the-politics\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T17:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:09:41","slug":"charli-xcx-wanted-the-kamala-brat-meme-to-happen-she-didnt-plan-on-the-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/26\/charli-xcx-wanted-the-kamala-brat-meme-to-happen-she-didnt-plan-on-the-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Charli XCX Wanted the Kamala \u201cBrat\u201d Meme to Happen\u2014She Didn\u2019t Plan on the Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"


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When Charli XCX<\/strong> sent her now-legendary tweet declaring that \u201ckamala IS brat,\u201d<\/a> shortly after Kamala Harris<\/strong> was anointed the heir apparent to the Democratic presidential nomination, she wasn\u2019t trying to be political, she was trying to be cute.<\/p>\n

In an interview with New York Magazine<\/em><\/a> published Monday, the British singer revealed that she was in her pool at home in Los Angeles, waiting for lunch to be ready, and tossed out what she thought would be \u201csomething positive and lighthearted.\u201d<\/p>\n

It became something more than that, to say the least. As Harris\u2019s campaign embraced the co-sign, immediately turning the banner on their social media rapid response page Kamala HQ slime green, posting remixes of the candidate set to Charli\u2019s music on TikTok, the world was also treated to elder generations fumbling to define what \u201cbrat\u201d means, often on live TV. It\u2019s been a lot to digest for the artist, who has been planning the rollout of her latest album, brat<\/em>, for over a year, referring to it as \u201cthe campaign.\u201d The main idea of that meticulously crafted campaign? Make it look spontaneous. Sunday morning political talk show discussions of her music were decidedly not part of the campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid I think me talking about being a messy bitch and, like, partying and needing a Bic lighter and a pack of Marlboro Lights would end up on CNN? No,\u201d she said. Still, she\u2019s rolling with it\u2014that is, after all, the brat way of life.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be on the right side of democracy, the right side of women\u2019s rights, is hugely important to me,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019m happy to help to prevent democracy from failing forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a Brit, Charli can\u2019t vote in the election, said that she doesn\u2019t see herself as \u201ca political artist,\u201d and doesn\u2019t want to be. \u201cI\u2019m not Bob Dylan<\/strong>, and I\u2019ve never pretended to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charli is doing Charli, which means reminders that she’s \u201cpartying all the time\u201d and an insistence that \u201cI\u2019m messy. I\u2019m messy<\/em>.” She’s more about the party than party politics. \u201cEverything I do in my life feeds back into my art,\u201d she said. \u201cEverything I say, wear, think, enjoy\u2014it all funnels back into my art. Politics doesn\u2019t feed my art.\u201d<\/p>\n

But as the world has seen, her art is feeding politics, and brat\u2019s brat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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