Charli xcx - Brat and It's Completely Different

Brat wasn't done being a cultural event when the album cycle ended, and this remix companion, released in October 2024 on Atlantic, proves it. Rather than simply extending the originals with guest verses, Charli handed the entire tracklist over to an enormous and genuinely surprising roster of collaborators, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Bon Iver, Robyn, Caroline Polachek, Troye Sivan, and more, each reimagining a song rather than just remixing it.

The clearest example of that approach is "Girl, So Confusing" featuring Lorde, which became its own cultural moment entirely separate from the Brat rollout. What started as speculation about a supposed rivalry between the two artists turned into something far more candid, with Lorde and Charli directly addressing their real-life tension on record and turning it into reconciliation rather than subtext. Lorde has since said the honesty of that collaboration directly shaped her own approach to Virgin, giving this remix album a ripple effect well beyond its own release.

Across the rest of the record, contributors like Bon Iver and Jon Hopkins push Charli's club-ready originals into unexpected new textures, while pop-facing guests like Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish keep the record's hooks intact. It's a rare remix album that functions as a genuine creative statement rather than a victory-lap cash-in, extending Brat's cultural footprint well past its initial run.

This edition presses the full remix album as a 2LP on translucent brat-green vinyl, packaged in a die-cut gatefold with a die-cut lyric book, a fitting physical package for an album that reshaped its source material as much as it celebrated it.