"With any kind of trend, if it crosses my path I’ll sort of wonder what it’s all about, understand it but not necessarily engage with it. I think the best trends reach people when they’re not searching for them, that’s how it becomes a trend in the most infectious and subconscious sense of the word. Those are the best ones, when you’re following without even realizing." For the record, bratgenerator. com her favorite color right now is Pantone 3507C. As Charli's release date for brat approached its expected release on June 7th, 2024, memes and photoshopped images inserting the album's cover into other pieces of media started to go viral on X. For example, June 4th, 2024, Duolingo's Brazilian X[2] account shared a montage inspired by Charli's brat cover (seen below), which amassed more than 917,000 views and 11,000 likes in two days.
"Let’s go." So Estevez and Nelson and the Playmate and McInerney paid the check and left. It was almost midnight on a boys’ night out, and Judd Nelson and Emilio Estevez were still looking for some fun. So Estevez summoned a young writer he’d always wanted to meet, Jay McInerney—the author of a book, Bright Lights, Big City, that he’d once wanted to option and turn into a screenplay. It was 1984’s trendiest novel, and McInerney was staying at one of Los Angeles’s trendiest hotels, the Chateau Marmont, revising the first draft of the screenplay of his book. Coincidentally, the man set to direct the film version of the book is Joel Schumacher—the director of St. Elmo’s Fire. Tom Cruise grew up in the East, away from the world of Hollywood; still, he found he didn’t need much training to succeed.
In December, Charli got one of those magazine covers when she was named Variety’s Hitmaker Of The Year. In her acceptance speech, she dissected the meaning of "hitmaker," speaking as someone who produced one of the most acclaimed albums of the year but didn’t land a single song in the top 10 of the Hot 100. She compared Brat, in terms of numbers and impact, to The Velvet Underground And Nico, an album that barely charted and sold a meager 30,000 copies in five years. Carpenter’s hits introduced the world to songwriter Amy Allen, who had a hand in every song on Carpenter’s new album. Allen’s witty, exasperated, idiosyncratic songwriting style had us all singing along to a sigh—"Isn’t that sweet / I guess so"—and the unstoppable combination of Amy Allen as writer and Sabrina Carpenter as performer brought new facets to pop music. Sabrina Carpenter captured the world this summer with her songs "Espresso" and "Please Please Please." Everyone was talking about "that’s that me espresso," trying to decipher the strange lyrical turn of phrase.
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Of course, he was told, and when he arrived, the manager and the ticket taker welcomed him to the theater and told him how much they loved his movies. "Thank you," Estevez said, and with a smile, he dashed off to catch the opening credits. Everyone in Hollywood differs over who belongs to the Brat Pack. That is because they are basing their decision on such trivial matters as whose movie is the biggest hit, whose star is rising and whose is falling, whose face is on the cover of Rolling Stone and whose isn’t. And occasionally, some poor, misguided fool bases his judgment on whose talent is the greatest. In the US, BRAT debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 with 77,000 album-equivalent units sold on its opening week, consisting of 40,000 pure album sales.
Taking to her private Instagram account, Charli described Brat as intentionally provocative in design. Its cover was meant to be very provocative, featuring a lot of text. She wrote, "The artwork for Brat will be obnoxious, arrogant, and bold. Some people will hate it. [The cover] will be heavily text-based, either font on a plain background or painted on a wall or disregarded object." When I first saw the cover art for Charli XCX’s brat generator, I was repulsed. And then I realized that the ugliness was part of its bizarre appeal.
A bit like Björk who sees each of her album covers as some kind of a tarot card representing the character she's embodying in the record. But I also think it would be ballsy and unexpected not to feature herself at some point. I personally love what she went for with this cover, but I guess the criticism isn't just coming from the fact she's not featured on it.
At the end of our interview, McCarthy and I even hugged it out, sitcom style. At the Brats premiere, Demi Moore introduced herself to me, and clasped my hands in hers as though greeting an old friend. But I didn’t hear from anyone directly and still assumed that whatever problems I might have created would blow over. I learned much later that the Brat Pack’s agents and publicists had immediately ordered their clients to avoid one another at all costs — no more Hard Rock burgers, no more na zdorovye! After a couple of weeks of silence, an exhausted, defeated Emilio finally called me at home.
