Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat

Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat
Remix album by Charli XCX
Released	11 October 2024 (2024-10-11)
Genre	Electropop
Length	50:28
Label	Atlantic
Producer	A. G. Cook Bon Iver Charli XCX Cirkut the Dare El Guincho Finneas Finn Keane George Daniel Hudson Mohawke the Japanese House Jason Lader Jon Hopkins Jon Shave Julian Casablancas Lotus IV Novodor Styalz Fuego TimFromTheHouse Toby Wincorn Zhone
Charli XCX chronology
Brat (2024) Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat (2024)
Singles from Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat
"Guess" Released: 1 August 2024 "Talk Talk" Released: 12 September 2024

Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat (stylized in all lowercase and mirrored) is the first remix album by English singer Charli XCX. It was released on 11 October 2024 by Atlantic Records. The album contains remixes of seventeen tracks from the deluxe version of her sixth studio album, Brat and It's the Same But There's Three More Songs So It's Not (2024), but also features the original tracks, thereby serving as a double album.

Featured artists on the album include Robyn, Yung Lean, BB Trickz, Ariana Grande, the 1975, Jon Hopkins, Troye Sivan, Addison Rae, Caroline Polachek, Bladee, Lorde, the Japanese House, Tinashe, Julian Casablancas, Bon Iver, Shygirl, Billie Eilish, Kesha and A. G. Cook. Cook and Finn Keane primarily handled production, with XCX herself, Jon Shave, George Daniel, and featured guests Bon Iver, Casablancas, and the Japanese House, among others, contributing additional production work.

Upon release, the record received critical acclaim from critics, who considered it an innovative companion piece to the original album.

Background

Charli XCX released her sixth studio album Brat on 7 June 2024 to critical acclaim. A variety of remixes of its songs were released throughout its album cycle before the announcement of a remix album, starting with the release of the "Von Dutch" remix with A. G. Cook and Addison Rae, on 22 March 2024. Subsequent remixes of album tracks, such as "Girl, So Confusing" with Lorde and "Guess" with Billie Eilish, fueled rumours of a "remix concept".

Release and promotion

Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat was announced along with the release of Troye Sivan's remix of "Talk Talk" on 12 September 2024. On the same day, Rolling Stone announced that the remix album is set to be released on 11 October 2024. The remixes featuring Billie Eilish and Lorde would be a part of the album's track list, along with the remixes featuring Addison Rae, Yung Lean, and Robyn, that were released as a part of the rollout of its original tracks. Skream and Benga's remix of "Von Dutch", however, did not make the cut. The timing of the album's release also coincides with XCX and Sivan's Sweat concert tour.

The album cover was posted with the caption "Brat and it's completely different but also still brat - out oct 11" on several of Charli XCX's social media accounts. These postings also included a link to pre-order the album within various streaming sites. The track list for the album was officially confirmed on 7 October when XCX gave a fan the track list during her performance on the Sweat Tour in Orlando, and encouraged them to share it online after the show. She later confirmed this on her social media. The album is being sold as a double cassette, double CD, and triple LP. Kesha's remix of "Spring Breakers" was added to the tracklist on 14 October 2024, three days after the album's original release.

Prior to the album's release, billboards appeared around the US, Europe, and Japan teasing new collaborations, confirming BB Trickz, Bon Iver, Julian Casablancas, Tinashe, Shygirl, the 1975, Jon Hopkins, the Japanese House, Bladee, Caroline Polachek, and Ariana Grande for the album. Writing for The Cut, Cat Zhang mostly negatively criticized the choice of featured artists, except for Grande, Matty Healy, Polachek, Tinashe and Shygirl. Instead, Zhang expressed her desire for features from Rosalía, the Black Eyed Peas, Vince Staples, Rina Sawayama and Lily Allen.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	8.4/10
Metacritic	89/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
Clash	9/10
The Daily Telegraph
The Guardian
Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine
The Times
Pitchfork	8.0/10
NME

Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat received acclaim from music critics, much like its original counterpart. The album holds a Metacritic score of 89 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim" based on eleven reviews. The review aggregator site AnyDecentMusic? compiled 8 reviews and gave the album an average of 8.4 out of 10.

Caitlin Chatterton of Clash awarded the album a score of 9 out of 10, praising its innovative sound and artistic direction. Rachel Aroesti from The Guardian described it as a testament to Charli XCX's "unstoppable" creative phase, giving the album a perfect score of 5 out of 5.

Writing for Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield expressed that "the Brat remix isn’t just a piece of promo product — it’s an ass-kicking party album in its own right", extending the phenomenon of "Brat Summer" into autumn. Similarly, Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani felt XCX created a "self-reflexive reaction to her success with a companion piece that’s just as relevant—and just as reflective of the zeitgeist—as its parent album.

The Daily Telegraph gave a mostly positive review, highlighting the star power of the album's many collaborators, but questioned if the myriad of features was a "cynical marketing ploy [...] designed to go viral".

Track listing

Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat streaming version disc 1

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"360" (featuring Robyn and Yung Lean)	Charlotte Aitchison Robin Carlsson Jonatan Aron Leandoer Håstad	Alexander Guy Cook Henry Walter Finn Keane Omer Fedi Blake Slatkin	Cirkut A. G. Cook Keane[a]	2:09
2.	"Club Classics" (featuring BB Trickz)	Aitchison Belize Kazi	George Daniel Tim Nelson	Daniel TimFromTheHouse Cook[a]	2:54
3.	"Sympathy Is a Knife" (featuring Ariana Grande)	Aitchison Grande	Aitchison Keane Jon Shave	Charli XCX Keane	2:34
4.	"I Might Say Something Stupid" (featuring the 1975 and Jon Hopkins)	Aitchison Matthew Healy	Daniel Hopkins Mike Lévy	Daniel Hopkins	4:10
5.	"Talk Talk" (featuring Troye Sivan)	Aitchison Troye Mellet Brett McLaughlin	Cook Ross Birchard Kaelyn Behr Kevin Hickey	Cook Hudson Mohawke Zhone Novodor Styalz Fuego	2:53
6.	"Von Dutch" (A. G. Cook remix; featuring Addison Rae)	Aitchison Addison Rae Easterling	Keane	Cook	2:37
7.	"Everything Is Romantic" (featuring Caroline Polachek)	Aitchison Polachek	Aitchison Cook Jae Deal Jasper Harris Marlon Travis Barrow Pablo Díaz-Reixa	Keane El Guincho Cook Charli XCX	3:23
8.	"Rewind" (featuring Bladee)	Aitchison Benjamin Reichwald	Cook Walter	Cook Cirkut	2:42
9.	"So I" (featuring A. G. Cook)	Aitchison	Cook Keane Shave	Cook Shave	4:39
10.	"Girl, So Confusing" (featuring Lorde)	Aitchison Ella Yelich-O'Connor	Cook	Cook	3:25
11.	"Apple" (featuring the Japanese House)	Aitchison Amber Bain Noonie Bao	Daniel Linus Wiklund	Daniel the Japanese House Lotus IV Cook Charli XCX	2:37
12.	"B2B" (featuring Tinashe)	Aitchison Tinashe Kachingwe	Cook Keane Levy Fedi	Keane	2:33
13.	"Mean Girls" (featuring Julian Casablancas)	Aitchison Casablancas	Cook Herbie Hancock Ross Birchard	Cook Casablancas Jason Lader	3:46
14.	"I Think About It All the Time" (featuring Bon Iver)	Aitchison Justin Vernon Lynn Buckhill	Shave Cook Bonnie Raitt Keane	Cook Keane Bon Iver	3:20
15.	"365" (featuring Shygirl)	Aitchison Blane Muise	Cook Slatkin Chris Peat Keane Walter Mark Archer	Keane Toby Wincorn Cook Cirkut	2:01
16.	"Guess" (featuring Billie Eilish)	Aitchison Billie Eilish O'Connell	Harrison Patrick Smith Dylan Brady Finneas O'Connell	The Dare Finneas	2:23
Total length:					48:06

Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat streaming version disc 1 – 14 October 2024 re-release

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Producer(s)	Length
17.	"Spring Breakers" (featuring Kesha)	Aitchison Kesha Sebert	Cook Keane Shave	Cook Keane Shave	2:22
Total length:					50:28

Notes

• ^{^[a]} signifies an additional producer.
• As with the original Brat, track titles are stylised in sentence case; featured credits are not enclosed within parentheses and are stylised in all lowercase.
• "Talk Talk" (featuring Troye Sivan) features uncredited additional vocals from Dua Lipa.
• Disc 2 mirrors the track listing of Brat and It's the Same but There's Three More Songs So It's Not.

Samples and interpolations

• "Club Classics" (featuring BB Trickz) contains an interpolation of "365" (2024), written by Charlotte Aitchison, Alexander Guy Cook and Henry Walter, and performed by Charli XCX.
• "So I" (featuring A. G. Cook) contains a sample of "Beautiful" (2014), written and performed by A. G. Cook.
• "I Think About It All the Time" (featuring Bon Iver) contains an interpolation of "Nick of Time" (1989), written and performed by Bonnie Raitt.
• "365" (featuring Shygirl) contains a sample of "Frequency" (1992), written by Chris Peat and Mark Archer, and performed by Altern-8.
• "Spring Breakers" (both featuring Kesha and solo) contains a sample of "Everytime" (2003), written by Britney Spears and Annet Artani, and performed by Spears.

Personnel

Performers

• Charli XCX – vocals
• A. G. Cook – remixing (tracks 1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13)
• Robyn – vocals (track 1)
• Yung Lean – vocals (track 1)
• George Daniel – remixing (tracks 2, 4)
• TimFromTheHouse – remixing (track 2)
• BB Trickz – vocals (track 2)
• Finn Keane – remixing (tracks 3, 7, 12, 15)
• Ariana Grande – vocals (track 3)
• Jon Hopkins – remixing (track 4)
• The 1975 – vocals (track 4)
• Dua Lipa – background vocals (track 5)
• Troye Sivan – vocals (track 5)
• Novodor – remixing (track 5)
• Styalz Fuego – remixing (track 5)
• Zhone – remixing (track 5)
• Addison Rae – vocals (track 6)
• Bladee – vocals (track 8)
• Lorde – vocals (track 10)
• The Japanese House – remixing, vocals (track 11)
• Tinashe – vocals (track 12)
• Julian Casablancas – remixing, vocals (track 13)
• Jason Lader – remixing (track 13)
• Bon Iver – remixing, vocals (track 14)
• Toby Wincorn – remixing (track 15)
• Shygirl – vocals (track 15)
• The Dare – remixing (track 16)
• Finneas – remixing (track 16)
• Billie Eilish – vocals (track 16)
• Kesha – vocals (track 17)

Technical

• Idania Valencia – mastering
• Randy Merrill – mastering (track 5)
• Geoff Swan – mixing (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6–9, 11, 14, 15)
• Tom Norris – mixing (tracks 3, 5, 10, 13)
• Bart Shoudel – mixing, vocal engineering (track 12)
• Cirkut – vocal engineering (tracks 1, 8)
• George Daniel – vocal engineering (track 2)
• Jon Shave – vocal engineering (tracks 3, 9)
• Finn Keane – vocal engineering (tracks 3, 11, 14)
• A. G. Cook – vocal engineering (tracks 5, 9, 10, 13–15)
• Hudson Mohawke – vocal engineering (track 13)
• Matt Cahill – mixing assistance (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6–9, 11, 14, 15)
• Tyler Beans – engineering assistance (track 13)

Charts

Chart performance for Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat

Chart (2024)	Peak position
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)	28
Japanese Download Albums (Billboard Japan)	75
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)	19
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)	1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)	5
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)	19