Charli XCX to stop performing songs from the Crash album—here's why

Pop star and brat-in-chief herself Charli xcx called her last album, CRASH, her "sell-out main pop girlie" album.

The album came out in 2022 with singles such as "Good Ones," "Beg For You" (featuring Rina Sawayama), and "New Shapes" (featuring Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek). xcx also went on a worldwide tour and performed the CRASH set at Coachella and Primavera Sound, making it one of her favorite eras among fans.

However, those songs might be retired sooner than we thought.

"Do I want to be singing 'Good Ones' forever?" xcx recently mused in an interview with Vulture. "Personally, no. Those songs don’t get me off as much."

At the time, xcx explained the "sell-out" concept to NPR.

"I've been signed to a major label since I was 16 years old," she explained. "Throughout that time, I've never really utilized the major label in the way that I am supposed to. I've kind of always gone off grid, made my own path."

Because of that, "There's been quite a lot of tension between the way I've chosen to do things and the way a major label expects female pop artists to do things. And I think a lot of my previous work has really been born out of that tension — or some, at least."

xcx also notes that CRASH is the final album in the record deal she signed when she was a teenager. "With this final album, the final album in my deal, I wanted to play into this idea of, 'What if I played the game?' Hence the whole selling my soul thing. What if I took pitch songs? What if I worked with an A&R for the first time in 10 years? What if I started using interpolations in a few of the songs? That's the world. To be honest, yeah, it could be deemed a performance art piece, but it's also a personal test to see whether I can handle it and whether that makes me happy and how it makes me feel."

Following the album, the 32-year-old signed another deal with the same label which brat was later released on. xcx also bucked conventions with this album, even kicking up controversy with the simplistic "brat green" album cover. The cover was mocked when it was first revealed – now it's iconic.