With presidential candidate Kamala Harris and even some tone-deaf Republicans co-opting the Brat aesthetic and lingo on social media, it seemed like Charli XCX’s cultural currency had reached critical mass. Pitchfork, Dazed, and others were quick to prematurely declare “Brat Summer” over. To which the singer promptly clapped back, “oh ? see u next week :)”
The latest Brat brand extension is a new remix of “Guess,” featuring Billie Eilish. A standout track from the album’s cheekily titled deluxe edition, Brat and it’s the same but there’s three more songs so it’s not, the frenetic hyperpop song (co-written by Charli and 100 gecs’s Dylan Brady) echoes Eilish’s own tongue-in-cheek ode to oral sex, “Lunch.” “You wanna guess the color of my underwear/You wanna know what I got going on down there,” Charli teases before Eilish gets in on the not-so-subtle innuendo: “Charli likes boys, but she knows I’d hit it.”
The kinetic music video, directed by Aidan Zamiri, sees Eilish arriving fashionably late to—and literally crashing—Charli’s underwear party. The pair climb a giant landfill of women’s undergarments that, according to a note in the end credits, will be donated to survivors of domestic violence.
Watch the video below:
“Guess” redux follows on the heels of a much-buzzed-about new version of “Girl, So Confusing,” featuring Charli’s alleged frenemy Lorde. Fans are already speculating what other collaborations might materialize if a rumored Brat remix album comes to fruition. Long live Brat Summer.
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