When you go to a Charli XCX gig, you need to be ready to sweat. Whatever you think of her music, you cannot knock her acumen. Whether you had Brat, or Brat but it’s completely different, or Brat but it’s got three more songs, or Brat but all the lyrics are reversed, you are in the club of witnessing music history. Equally glitchy and chaotic, “The Moment”, Aidan Zamiri’s satirical interpretation of the 2024 Brat tour, shows that any artist that has meaning has a greater chance to thrive. Every night she picks an Apple Girl from the crowd during her performance of the fruit-based lead single, with big stars like Jenna Ortega and Lorde among those brought to stage. “The Moment” is genuinely hilarious, especially with Alexander Skarsgard’s womanising director Johannes trying to transform Charli’s lude, loud tour dressing into a sanitized Taylor Swift style Eras Tour. As one of those artists lucky enough to skirt the line between Pop and Indie, to start speaking about how much Charli, who three years ago had released six albums but was relatively unknown, has earned her superstar status. Cameos from Rachel Sennott, who starred in the music video for 360, and Kylie Jenner, shining away from both The Kardashians and Tim Chalamet, just make this parody even more of a delight. You might even buy it, until the Brat credit card comes into action. 

The big question: where next? An artist like Charli took the world by storm, after a lot of work and a handful of commercially lukewarm releases, has made her big break. The tour was sensational, the album was voted by many music critics as the greatest of 2024, and now she has her own motion picture soundtrack. With her headline appearance at Reading and Leads coming up this August, some people have speculated that Charli might quit music. Honestly, we want another album that embraces the chaos and ambition of Brat and takes it to a whole new level, but a break would be unsurprising. Her performance as a fictionalised version of herself was highly convincing, but with her debuts in critically divisive features like Erupcja and 100 Nights of Hero, maybe the singing is the area to stick to. If we told you she was the one to watch, with her fierce honesty, sweary stage demeanour and downbeat Letterboxd reviews, then you need not listen, because you knew that much already.