Charli XCX 'Begrudgingly' Adds B-Sides to Music, Fashion, Film
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- Charli XCX released Music, Fashion, Film (B-Sides Edition) on iTunes on Sunday, priced at $4.99, featuring the album's original 11 tracks plus three b-sides and their music videos.
- The three new tracks — 'I Keep On Thinking Bout You Every Single Day and Night,' 'Playboy Bunny,' and 'If You Take the Music Then What Has She Got?' — had previously only been available via her @b.sides Instagram account and limited-edition 7-inch singles tied to 'Rock Music,' 'SS26,' and 'Camera.'
- Charli said she had been 'adamant' about keeping the songs off streaming because it felt 'counter intuitive to the whole ethos' but relented after fan demand, writing on Instagram that she had 'begrudgingly put them on iTunes.'
- Music, Fashion, Film dropped Friday as Charli XCX's seventh studio album, with a Rolling Stone cover story in which she described her discography as albums that 'work in opposites' and 'repel against each other.'
- The upcoming tour behind the album includes festival stops at Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Reading, and Leeds, followed by arena dates at Brooklyn's Barclays Center and Los Angeles's Kia Forum.
Why it matters: Fans who missed the limited physical releases — the 7-inch singles and box set — can now access all three b-sides for $4.99, expanding the audience for tracks Charli herself treated as artistic companions rather than album entries. Her framing of the release as a reversal underscores how physical-only exclusives are losing their grip when artists face fan pressure on streaming platforms.
