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Charli XCX is all grown up but still making the kind of music she would have done at the height of her youth

Charli XCX is all grown up but still making the kind of music she would have done at the height of her youth

Clean girl? We’re so over you. Honestly, some of us never really liked you to begin with.

If you haven’t heard of ‘brat summer’ or Charli XCX by now, I’m actually kind of impressed. 

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