// BBC ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS — MODA & SOCIETÀ
Charli XCX on lying, Love Island and life post-Brat
Charli XCX sat down with BBC Radio 1 presenter Jack Saunders to unpick her new album, Music, Fashion, Film.
This is the question posed by Radio 1's Jack Saunders to Charli XCX about an answer she gave in their last interview.
The Apple singer previously told the presenter that she hadn't started making any new music - when in fact she was putting the finishing touches to her new album, Music, Fashion, Film.
"I'd finished the record pretty much," she tells Saunders during a special performance at the BBC's Maida Vale studios.
"I knew when I said yes to Reading and Leeds it was going to be about this next album."
But why do artists feel they need to keep their plans under wraps, and is there pressure to do so?
Released in July, Music, Fashion, Film follow's Charli XCX's huge hit album, Brat.
The record became a cultural phenomenon, used in Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential campaign and even resulted in Collins English Dictionary updating its definition of Brat.
Publicist Josh Moss tells BBC Newsbeat that at the early stages of a campaign, artists won't be giving much away.
"What people don't realise is that there's so much planning and strategy that goes into an album roll out," says Moss, who has represented artists like Maisie Peters, Bruno Mars and SOMBR.