Charli xcx Schedules ‘Conversation’ With New York Fans to Talk Songwriting, Creative Process: ‘Would Love to Talk W You’

Is Charli xcx gearing up to reveal her rock summer? The singer announced a very special event for her New York fans in an Instagram post on Tuesday (April 28) in the form of a note scrawled on a piece of paper with the heading: “New York, May 2026 CONVERSATIONS.”

“Would love to talk w you [heart],” the singer scrawled on the note. In the accompanying caption, she added, “i love talking about making things and process and stuff with my friends so if you want to ask me questions about creative process / song writing / anything else that would be cute. wanna hear what you’re making too. would love to talk with you <3 charlixcx.com.” A link to her official website takes fans to a sign-up form for the conversation, with no information at press time on the date or location of the gathering.

After blowing up in 2024 with her Brat album, which gave way to “Brat Summer” and Charli’s ascent to mainstream global stardom and a string of acting and film/TV score work, earlier this month the singer told British Vogue that her in-process eighth studio album will be a pivot from dance pop to straight-up rock.

“For me, it’s fun to flip the form,” Charli said of the switch to more electric guitar-forward compositions after Brat scored her highest chart ranking ever, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. “We know there’s gonna be people who are bothered by it, but that’s fine.” She took the magazine into a studio session, where she previewed a song with strikingly confessional lyrics that presages her purposeful sonic switch-up. “I think the dance floor is dead, so now we’re making rock music,” she sings on the untitled work-in-progress track.

Not wanting to repeat herself, Charli said the genre jump made perfect sense to her. “If I’d made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad,” she said. “What’s interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be.”

In addition to the as-yet-untitled new album, in February Charli dropped an album of experimental tracks for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation.

See Charli’s note below.