{"product_id":"charli-xcx-vroom-vroom","title":"Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn February 2016, Charli XCX walked away from the polished radio pop that had made her a household name and put out four tracks that most people hated. Released on her own newly formed Vroom Vroom Recordings and produced entirely by SOPHIE, the EP was written off at the time as abrasive and pointedly uncommercial. Ten years later it looks like the blueprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFour tracks, no filler, no apologies. The title track is all revving engines, latex-shiny synths and Charli delivering brags in a flat, bored drawl over percussion that sounds like industrial machinery gargling bubblegum. \"Paradise\" and \"Trophy\" push the aggression further, while \"Secret (Shhh)\" closes on something closer to a warped, sugary comedown. SOPHIE's production is the star turn: metallic, weightless, physically strange, and completely unlike anything on pop radio in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe EP is now widely credited as one of the founding documents of hyperpop, and you can trace a direct line from it to \u003cem\u003ehow i'm feeling now\u003c\/em\u003e, to \u003cem\u003eBRAT\u003c\/em\u003e, and to a decade of pop that got weirder because of it. In October 2025 the title track landed on Rolling Stone's list of the 250 greatest songs of the 21st century so far. SOPHIE's death in 2021 has made this collaboration feel like an even sharper piece of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePressed on 140-gram black vinyl, this puts one of the most quietly influential releases of the last decade on the format for the first time. A short, loud, essential record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AMS","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":47542683369634,"sku":null,"price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0633\/5024\/3490\/files\/4533893-3695952.jpg?v=1787076701","url":"https:\/\/staticatx.com\/products\/charli-xcx-vroom-vroom","provider":"Static ATX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}