Charli XCX Joins Strokes at Outside Lands
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- Charli XCX joined The Strokes as a surprise guest during their headlining set at Outside Lands on Saturday to perform 'Take It or Leave It,' the closer from The Strokes' 2001 debut 'Is This It?'
- Julian Casablancas told the crowd that both acts released new albums — The Strokes' 'Reality Awaits' and Charli's 'Music, Fashion, Film' — on the same day in July, and publicly conceded Charli won the album sales battle.
- Charli XCX had headlined Outside Lands the previous night, making Saturday's crossover the festival's signature moment.
- Casablancas and Charli previously collaborated when he joined her reworking of 'Mean Girls' for the remix album 'Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat.'
- The Strokes will jet to Japan next weekend for Summer Sonic in Tokyo and Osaka, while Charli heads to the U.K.'s Reading and Leeds festivals.
Why it matters: Charli XCX headlined Outside Lands one night and crashed The Strokes' headlining set the next — with Julian Casablancas conceding the sales race to her and calling her 'new queen of everything.' Casablancas's public concession, after both acts dropped albums the same day in July, is a rare on-stage admission from a rock legacy act ceding commercial ground to a pop peer.
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