What Is Brat Summer? The Charli XCX Trend, Explained [Video]

In “Club Classics,” Charli sings, “I wanna be flooded by the lights” and states that she’s “never gonna stop to the morning light.” But, of course, none of us can keep on numbing ourselves with the party forever (sorry). When the club shuts its doors, she finds herself caught in more melancholic self-reflection. She admits she’s “a mess and plays the role.” She says she’s “thinking about it all the time”—and yes, she’s talking about what so many of us are thinking about all the time, which is her baby timeline. Later she states, “Sometimes I just wanna rewind” in a song that evokes quintessential millennial nostalgia. Basically, she’s having an existential crisis while trying to numb it all with a feral party, and it’s oh so millennial.