‘The Moment’: Taming the ‘Brat’

In 2024, a lowercase, sans serif “b” in stark black was set against a lurid neon-green slime background of an album cover — and suddenly, Charli XCX was everywhere. For more than a decade, Charli existed in that peculiar pop-star hinterland: too influential to be obscure, too experimental to be fully mainstream, a hitmaker whose […]