Charli xcx to welcome new era with new song, “Rock Music”
07 May 2026, 16:48
| Written by
Kayla Sandiford
Charli xcx has announced that she will be releasing her new single, “Rock Music”, at midnight tonight.
The news comes after Charli told music writer Laura Snapes in a Vogue interview that “the dancefloor is dead”, and that she’s now making rock music — suggesting that her eighth studio record would be a rock album.
Last week, on her alternative Instagram account b.sides, Charli also explained how the new track came to be, writing: “was staying in paris in an apartment above the studio. woke up and had an idea for a song that made me lol. i told the guys and it made them laugh too. so we made "rock music".”
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