"Of all the thoughts I have about Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights (which is many, though way less than her haters), her decision to have Charli XCX soundtrack our foggy descent into the 19th-century Yorkshire moors was one of her best-second only to casting Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff. Charli's 12-track album is haunting and spellbinding. It's also full of different ways to die because your other half has either left you, might leave you, or has you so dick-drunk and trauma-bonded that you're spiritually flatlining."
"On every track, I can feel myself transforming into a lovesick British woman on the verge of losing her sanity because she doesn't have a job, responsibilities, or literally anything else to think about besides this guy. (Complimentary.) So let's rank the very best ways to die at the hands of your tall, dark, handsome, and equally distressed lover, who ideally has an accent, just as Emily Brontë would have wanted."
Charli XCX created a 12-track album that serves as a haunting, spellbinding soundtrack rooted in themes of obsessive love and emotional collapse. The songs map different poetic 'ways to die' from romantic devastation: abandonment, the threat of leaving, and trauma-bonded numbness. The music evokes a transformation into a lovesick figure consumed by a single tumultuous relationship, accentuating atmospheric moors, longing, and instability. Individual tracks range from the string-driven urgency of "Wall of Sound" to the shimmering synths of "Open Up," balancing literal life and metaphorical death. The collection blends lush production with intense emotional vulnerability and dark humor.
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