How Brat Opened Up The Conversation On Motherhood

Taking mother back to it's original meaning

*TW - discussion of fertility, starting a family, pregnancy

Charli XCX’s new album brat was released just over a month ago, and after listening to the first few tracks such as Von Dutch, Club Classics and 360, motherhood was truly the last thing on my mind. Instead, I felt inspired to have the most chaotic and feral summer since I was 17 at Leeds fest with nothing but a 20 pack of sterling duals and a pot of glitter. That was until I reached the penultimate song of the album…

“I think about it all the time” is Charli’s ode to motherhood, an exploration of how it feels to be reaching an age where people presume you’ll soon be popping out a baby, or even a herd of them. By the evening of brat’s release day, my whole feed was full of 20-30 something women declaring how they’d never related to something so much, how Charli had perfectly summarised all their worries and concerns into one song, and how they didn’t feel alone in their thoughts anymore.