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Why Is Charli XCX’s 'brat' the Biggest Album of Her Career? You Won’t Believe the Reason Charli Herself Gave · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Charlie XCX is enjoying the biggest success of her career
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Speaker 2: with her latest album, Bratt, and there are a lot
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Speaker 2: of theories as to why this particular project was the
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Speaker 2: one to catch on fire, but Charlie's own hypothesis pretty straightforward.
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Speaker 2: Her older music just wasn't as good. She tells Billboard,
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Speaker 2: my vision wasn't fully realized. They made decisions that maybe
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Speaker 2: were suggested to me, but that I actually didn't fully
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Speaker 2: believe in. While I think a lot of the songs
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Speaker 2: that I was doing then were good songs, I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: necessarily have listened to them if it was another artist
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Speaker 2: releasing them. I think I knew at the time, But
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Speaker 2: I also think I knew that that was okay. At
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Speaker 2: that time, I was writing for a lot of other people,
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Speaker 2: and I wanted to be doing that Charlie XCX. They're
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Speaker 2: also saying making Bratt was fueled by a conscious decision
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Speaker 2: to make no creative compromises for mainstream success, and ironically
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Speaker 2: it's become her biggest album out now.
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