Welcome to the New York Times

podcast, your bad tattoos on leather tan skin of music news

and criticism.

I'm your host, Lindsay Zolaz, filling in for John Carmonica this week.

You've been listening to the remix of Girls So Confusing by Charlie XX featuring Lord. This remix was announced while we were having the

conversation that you're about to hear about Charlie X-X-X-X-E-X-S-S-S-S-S-S album, Brat. I want to think that we willed it

into being, you be the judge, but we do talk about the original quite a bit in this episode.

So I think everything we said still stands, but if you want to go a little deeper into the remix, I actually wrote a piece about it that you can find on nytimes.com. So that out so let's dive into that conversation. I get money back because the banks up.

Yeah, I know your little secret put your hands up.

It's so obvious song, you know, the world's like Bon Dance,

K-K-K-K-K-K. We are gathered here today on my first ever hosting gig of Popcast, longtime guest, first time host, and I feel in many ways this is the episode I was born to host. It is about

Charlie XCX's victory lap of a new record brat. I have long been the Charlie Defender on staff, only person to put how I'm feeling now on my year endless in 2021, whatever that album came out.

I've been wanting Charlie to make a record like this

for a long time, and there are so much to discuss about it,

and I am so excited to have a true dream team here to discuss it with me today.

We have Megan Garvey who wrote the iconic pitchwork review of this album that really just you said everything that

needed to be said I felt like I did not need to review this album after

creating your review but I am so excited to hear more from you about it.

Thanks for being here.

Oh my God thank you yeah former 365 party girl probably currently like

85 maybe 85 to 100. That's still a good showing. That's probably more than I've gotten me so and we also have shod desousa what's up this is perfect this is my fourth time on

pop-cast but John has only hosted me once so this kind of continues my streak.

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