Brat is the upcoming sixth studio album by English singer Charli XCX. It is set to be released on 7 June 2024.^[2][3]

The album is set to be a club record^[4][5] evoking the illegal London rave scene where Charli started performing "when [she] was 14 or 15".^[6] This is her sixth studio album and first after renewing her contract with Atlantic Records in early 2023.^[7][8] It was announced on 28 February 2024, a day before the release of the lead single "Von Dutch", which was released on 29 February.^[9][10]

According to Charli, Brat is her "most aggressive and confrontational record", but also her most vulnerable.^[11] On 22 February, during her Boiler Room warehouse set, she debuted snippets of tracks identified as "Get Into It (Spring Breakers)" and "365 Party Girl".^[12] She was joined on the stage by Addison Rae and Julia Fox;^[13] a "Von Dutch" remix with Rae and A. G. Cook was released on 22 March.^[14] On 6 March, she premiered "So I" at the Billboard Women in Music event.^[15]

As Charli XCX told Billboard's Katie Bain, Brat is produced from a tight collection of sounds to create "this unique minimalism that is very loud and bold".^[6] The Face's Shaad D'Souza compared the album's sound to '00s-era Ministry of Sound compilations The Annual and Rihanna's 2010 album Loud, describing the lyrics as "shady and bratty, but tender and heartbreaking".^[11]

Charli XCX has confirmed that one track from the album will tackle her contentious relationship with a fellow female artist. Another track, partially inspired by Internet personality Dasha Nekrasova, will focus on society's "fascination with mean girls".^[11]

"So I" is "a knotty exploration of her grief about Sophie".^[16][17][18]

Brat's cover artwork, a low resolution lime green square with the title disproportionately imposed on it, was met with criticism. In a cover story interview for Vogue Singapore, she told Chandreyee Ray that the criticism led her to question why fans feel "ownership over female artists" so much so that they demand their photograph be on all of their work; she had previously dubbed it "mysoginistic [sic] and boring" on Twitter. She further explained the album cover and particularly the colour choice, deeming green heavily oversaturated in the media and fashion "as of late": "I wanted to go with an offensive, off-trend shade of green to trigger the idea of something being wrong. I'd like for us to question our expectations of pop culture—why are some things considered good and acceptable, and some things deemed bad? I'm interested in the narratives behind that and I want to provoke people. I'm not doing things to be nice." People's Sadie Bell linked the album cover with the nature of the album, which Charli dubbed "confrontational".^[19][20]

D'Souza wrote that Brat "makes the brazen pop of [Charli's] last record, 2022's Crash, seem like child's play."^[11] Anna Gaca of Pitchfork exclaimed: "Pass the Jägerbombs because Brat sounds like a rager."^[12]