Charli XCX Surprises at Outside Lands with The Strokes
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- The Strokes brought out surprise guest Charli XCX to perform 'Take It or Leave It' — the closer from their debut album Is This It? — during their headlining set at San Francisco's Outside Lands festival on Saturday
- Julian Casablancas joked that Charli 'defeated us in the album sales' and called her 'new queen of everything,' noting both artists released new albums the same day in July — the Strokes' Reality Awaits and Charli's Music, Fashion, Film
- Charli XCX had headlined the previous night at the same San Francisco festival before joining The Strokes' set on Saturday
- Casablancas and Charli XCX previously collaborated when he appeared on a reworking of 'Mean Girls' for her remix album Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat
- The Strokes are next scheduled to perform at Japan's Summer Sonic festivals in Tokyo and Osaka next weekend, while Charli is set to headline the UK's Reading and Leeds festivals
Why it matters: Casablancas publicly conceded Charli's Music, Fashion, Film outsold the Strokes' Reality Awaits 'by a lot' on their shared July release date, turning the surprise cameo into a coronation — with both artists now pivoting to major international festival runs at Summer Sonic and Reading and Leeds.
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