Charli XCX Addresses Viral Kamala Harris Tweet
Charli XCX embraces her tweet declaring Kamala Harris is #brat becoming an election phenomenon: “Did I think me talking about being a messy bitch and, like, partying and needing a Bic lighter and a pack of Marlboro Lights would end up on CNN? No" https://t.co/NyiiWaKTe4 pic.twitter.com/swYmHTzVxF
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 26, 2024
While speaking to New York magazine, Charli XCX addressed her tweet declaring, "kamala IS brat" which then kicked off a media thinkpiece storm as well as being embraced by Harris' campaign. The tweet, which was sent off while she hung out in her LA pool waiting for her fiance to finish making lunch, was meant as "something positive and lightearted" rather than a political endorsement. The interviewer also notes that Charli is British.
“To be on the right side of democracy, the right side of women’s rights, is hugely important to me. I’m happy to help to prevent democracy from failing forever,” she said rather earnestly to the New York magazine interviewer. “I obviously knew what I was doing."
“Did I think me talking about being a messy bitch and, like, partying and needing a Bic lighter and a pack of Marlboro Lights would end up on CNN? No.”
She has no intentions of becoming a political artist. “I’m not Bob Dylan, and I’ve never pretended to be. My music is not political. Everything I do in my life feeds back into my art. Everything I say, wear, think, enjoy - it all funnels back into my art. Politics doesn’t feed my art.”
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