"Since the world got wind of her acting chops in an autumn 2024 host-and-musical-guest turn on Saturday Night Live, Charli XCX has rolled out or signed onto at least nine films, including last month's , an A24-aligned Brat tour mockumentary that attempted an update to Spinal Tap. She'd long been respected for a distinct taste that transmuted left-of-the-dial sensibilities into pop nuggets, but shattered her reputation as merely a superstar perennially waiting to happen."
"So Charli's soundtrack for the new remake of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's tale of heartbreak and class warfare, must hitch a wagon onto the provocations of Promising Young Woman and Saltburn's Emerald Fennell. Her routine lately is imbuing scenes of the past with the sexual frankness of the present, to a sometimes begrudgingly upbeat reception; this week, Fennell's Wuthering Heights has been celebrated as her "dumbest movie" and dragged as a "bodice-ripping misfire.""
Since an autumn 2024 SNL host-and-musical-guest turn, Charli XCX has signed onto or released work in at least nine films. She evolved from transforming left-of-the-dial sensibilities into pop into accepting director-driven collaborations and soundtrack commissions. For Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights remake she created an album that bridges Kate Bush's stately take with contemporary sexual frankness and Velvet Underground influences. Fennell requested a Charli song and received a full album committed to melding old and modern worlds while dialing back on overt shock value. John Cale guests on the opener "House," anchoring the record's vintage-meets-modern texture.
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