Charli XCX Drops 'Music, Fashion, Film' B-Sides on iTunes
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- Charli XCX dropped Music, Fashion, Film (B-Sides Edition) on iTunes on Sunday at $4.99, adding 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?" — alongside the original 11 songs and their music videos.
- The three b-sides were previously exclusive to limited-edition 7-inch physical singles for "Rock Music," "SS26," and "Camera," as well as the album's physical box set, and had been teased on Charli's @b.sides Instagram alt-account.
- Charli wrote on Instagram that streaming the b-sides felt "counter intuitive to the whole ethos of those songs" but said fans wanted them, jokingly calling herself a "hypocrite" for the "begrudgingly" added digital release.
- Music, Fashion, Film, her seventh studio album, came out the previous Friday and follows the massive success of Brat; in a Rolling Stone cover story, Charli said her albums "work in opposites" and that she "was never going to make that record again."
- Charli's tour behind the album includes festival stops at Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Reading, and Leeds, plus arena dates at Barclays Center in Brooklyn and the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.
Why it matters: Fans previously had to buy physical 7-inch singles or the box set to hear these three tracks, so the $4.99 digital edition makes them widely accessible for the first time. The release marks a small but notable reversal for an artist who framed physical exclusivity as part of the b-sides' identity.
