A collaboration between Charli XCX, Troye Sivan and Dua Lipa has been confirmed by Sivan’s collaborator and producer, zhone.
Having recently declared an end to ‘Brat’ summer – the cultural phenomenon that saw her ‘Brat’ album take over social media – XCX has hinted that a new release is on the way. On September 8, the ‘360’ singer took to her private Instagram account, 360_brat, to share a voice note of Lipa speaking Spanish.
In the clip, the ‘Training Season’ singer can be heard saying: “Charli, Troye, un besito para ti,” which translates to “Charli, Troye, a little kiss for you”. Today (September 10), XCX took to her official Instagram account to share a video of her strutting around a stage with Sivan while singing an unreleased track which features both of them.
The bumping pop beat sees XCX sing: “Whisper right in my ear / tell me all your secrets and fears / Once you talk to me I’ll talk to you / and say ‘hey shall we go back to my place”.
zhone – who’s produced Sivan’s Grammy-nominated track ‘Rush’ as well as Kesha’s ‘Joyride’, Loreen’s ‘Forever’ and Adam Lambert’s ‘Wet Dream’ – took to his Instagram account to share XCX’s video with the caption “Produced by me and the boys” and tagged the ‘Guess’ singer as well as Sivan and Lipa and producers Styalz Fuego (Paloma Faith, Imagine Dragons) and Novodor (Blu DeTiger, ODESA).
Upon the release of Lipa’s Spanish voice note shared by XCX herself, many fans began speculating that the singer would be sharing a remix of the song ‘Talk Talk’, as the outro of the original song sees XCX sing: “Talk to me in French / talk to me in Spanish / talk to me in your own made-up language”.
If the cryptic post does turn out to be a remix with both Sivan and Lipa, it will come just as Charli XCX and Troye Sivan are gearing up to start their ‘Sweat’ tour later this month.
The dates start on Saturday (September 14) with an opening show at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. From there, it’ll make stops in Boston, New York, Toronto, Phoenix, Los Angeles and more, before ending in Seattle on October 23. Visit here for remaining tickets.
While the potential remix hasn’t yet been confirmed by Sivan, Charli or Lipa, the speculation does arrive following Paris Hilton revealing that she wants to join forces with the ‘Von Dutch’ singer.
“Every time I’ve spoken with [Charli] she’s like, ‘You’ve always been such an inspiration to my music.’ So I just think it just makes so much sense for us to do a song together,” she said.
In a four-star review of the record, NME wrote: “It all paints a picture of who XCX is in 2024. Growing pains, grief and aching doubts come alongside self-confidence, celebration and the knowledge of the place XCX holds in the musical landscape – indeed, she kicks off ‘360’ with the knowing: “I went my own way and I made it / I’m your favourite reference baby”.
Last week, A. G. Cook and Finn Keane – two of the producers behind ‘Brat’ – spoke to NME at the 2024 Mercury Prize about what it was like to work on the album, as well as revealing the thing that sets Charli XCX apart from everyone else.
“This album was very different to work on than pretty much everything else that I’ve taken part in because it was so focused and relentless. Charli really has this clear vision,” Cook explained.
“We knew it was going to be called ‘Brat’ for the entire two years of making it, and we cut anything that wasn’t ‘Brat. If it didn’t feel ‘Brat’, it was gone! We’d barely even talk about it again out of embarrassment of it not being ‘Brat’ enough.”
Keane continued: “Charli always has a vision of where she is and where she wants to go, but with this, I think it was more than ever.”
