Charli XCX performs on Aug. 6, 2025 in Budapest. – Credit score: Joseph Okpako/WireImage
Charli XCX concluded her headlining tour in help of her colossal document Brat on Friday at One Universe Competition in Gwacheon-si, South Korea. To mark the event, the singer left followers with a farewell message, formally ending her blockbuster run.
“Please don’t let or not it’s over,” learn a big display behind the singer as she walked throughout the stage. Charli shared a photograph from the live performance on social media alongside a brief clip of a movie slate showing to tease the primary scene of a challenge titled “The second.”
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Brat‘s lime-green album cover and euphoric pop tracks dominated social feeds and the cultural panorama in 2024 following the document’s launch. From TikTok to Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign to the Grammys (the place Charli won three awards together with Greatest Dance Pop Recording and Greatest Dance/Digital Album), her lasting influence on the business was inescapable.
When discussing her potential follow-up, Charli mentioned she doesn’t “actually really feel the strain to create one other document like Brat” throughout an interview on the Cannes Movie Competition earlier this 12 months. “After I was making [Brat], despite the fact that I actually believed in it and completely knew what I wished to do with it, I had no thought how it will be obtained,” she mentioned. “So yeah, I don’t actually really feel the strain as a result of I really feel you could by no means actually do the identical factor twice, and my subsequent document will most likely be a flop, which I’m down for to be trustworthy.”
Whereas it looks like her Brat period has reached its hyperpop finish (for now), Charli has a number of on-screen options underway together with her work within the upcoming erotic thriller I Want Your Sex alongside Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman; the satire Sacrifice with Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Pleasure; and the fantasy movie 100 Nights of Hero. Charli additionally performed an outlandish model of herself for Benito Skinner’s hit comedy sequence Overcompensating, which launched in Could.
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