{"id":29970,"date":"2024-07-31T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/?p=29970"},"modified":"2024-07-31T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T18:22:17","slug":"musicradar-column-on-three-songs-from-brat-by-charli-xcx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/2024\/musicradar-column-on-three-songs-from-brat-by-charli-xcx\/","title":{"rendered":"MusicRadar column on three songs from Brat by Charli XCX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have now written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/author\/ethan-hein\">three MusicRadar columns in a row<\/a> on current pop smashes by women. This wasn\u2019t planned; it\u2019s just the way the songs of the summer have played out. I didn&#8217;t know much about Charli XCX before I wrote this, beyond the fact that she sang some hooks on some radio hits. I&#8217;m glad to have had a reason to dig into her music, she is delightful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/news\/charli-xcx-brat-theory\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"30040\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/2024\/musicradar-column-on-three-songs-from-brat-by-charli-xcx\/dmh9yzzwwtvvbgswhhithf-1200-80-png\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DMH9YzzwWTvvBgSWhHitHF-1200-80.png.webp?fit=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,675\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DMH9YzzwWTvvBgSWhHitHF-1200-80.png\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DMH9YzzwWTvvBgSWhHitHF-1200-80.png.webp?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30040\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DMH9YzzwWTvvBgSWhHitHF-1200-80.png.webp?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DMH9YzzwWTvvBgSWhHitHF-1200-80.png.webp?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DMH9YzzwWTvvBgSWhHitHF-1200-80.png.webp?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DMH9YzzwWTvvBgSWhHitHF-1200-80.png.webp?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DMH9YzzwWTvvBgSWhHitHF-1200-80.png.webp?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This fall I&#8217;m teaching theory and aural skills classes in NYU&#8217;s new popular music sequence, and I have a feeling these three songs are going to be making appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have now written three MusicRadar columns in a row on current pop smashes by women. This wasn\u2019t planned; it\u2019s just the way the songs of the summer have played out. I didn&#8217;t know much about Charli XCX before I wrote this, beyond the fact that she sang some hooks on some radio hits. I&#8217;m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/2024\/musicradar-column-on-three-songs-from-brat-by-charli-xcx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MusicRadar column on three songs from Brat by Charli XCX&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,924,9],"tags":[3002,2903,568],"class_list":["post-29970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobio","category-key-musicians","category-music","tag-charli-xcx","tag-musicradar","tag-pop","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAPdE-7No","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30046,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29970\/revisions\/30046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}