Charli XCX Drops 'Music, Fashion, Film' Track List With Cronenberg
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- Charli XCX revealed the 11-track list for 'Music, Fashion, Film' on Instagram, sharing multiple photos including one of her seemingly posing nude while holding a white T-shirt printed with the track list in black.
- David Cronenberg features on 'No One Lasts Forever,' the album's longest cut at 5:42 — nearly double the runtime of most other tracks on the record.
- 'Rock Music' serves as both the lead single and opening track, with recent releases 'SS26' and 'Wink Wink' also included on the album.
- Music, Fashion, Film is Charli XCX's seventh studio album and follows 2024's 'Brat,' which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and won Grammys for Best Dance/Electronic Album and Best Recording Package.
- Charli XCX told Rolling Stone the record is not a traditional rock album despite heavy speculation: 'I've never thought about genre in a binary way. I find that to be a very old-school notion,' adding she made it with A.G. Cook and Finn Keane.
Why it matters: Coming off the Grammy-winning, top-three 'Brat,' Charli XCX's seventh LP doubles as a genre-identity statement: she's using a Cronenberg feature and a rock-titled lead single to dodge the 'rock album' label entirely, signaling she'll keep blending collaborators across film, fashion, and electronic-pop rather than picking a lane.
