The reception of her festival slot was seriously divided.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]
Words by Charley Ross<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222663949-scaled.jpg” alt=”Charli XCX” title_text=”Glastonbury Festival 2025 – Day Four” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″] The response to Charli XCX\u2019s Glastonbury slot on the Other stage on Saturday night has been seriously divided, to the point where the star has spoken out on the \u2018discourse\u2019 it has caused.<\/p>\n The Brat singer played some explosive tracks from her acclaimed 2024 album, such as Von dutch, 360 and Girl, so confusing, opening her set by \u201cburning down Brat\u201d by burning down a huge flag bearing the word ‘brat’. What a statement.<\/p>\n But some have taken to the Internet to throw some serious shade at Charli. One critic posted \u2018It’s official Charli XCX is the worst performer I have ever seen at Glastonbury,\u2019 while another called her performance \u2018one of the worst things I\u2019ve ever seen in my life\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018Barely singing, autotune in the rare moments she does sing a bit and horrendous dancing,\u2019 they wrote. \u2018Be fuming if you spent ages getting into that crowd only to see [that].\u2019 One even called Charli \u2018one of the worst headline acts ever at Glastonbury.\u2019<\/p>\n The Brat singer waded into the conversation on social media, posting on X: \u2018like the idea that singing with deliberate autotune makes you a fraud or that not having a traditional band suddenly means you must not be a \u201creal artist\u201d is like, the most boring take ever\u2026 yawn sorry just fell asleep xx.\u2019<\/p>\n She went on to explain that although these assessments of her performance are \u2018boring\u2019, she does enjoy the discussion that her art has opened up.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] \u2018But to be honest\u2026 i enjoy the discourse,” she wrote. \u2018imo the best art is divisive and confrontational and often evolves into truly interesting culture rather than being like kind of ok, easily understood and sort of forgettable.\u2019<\/p>\n She also posted that she\u2019s been \u2018really enjoying these boomer vibe comments on my glastonbury performance,\u2019 calling it \u2018super fascinating.\u2019<\/p>\n Charli supporters have posted in agreement about the \u2018boomer\u2019 attitude that she describes. \u2018Boomers talking s— about charli xcx\u2019s glastonbury performance,\u2019 one posted. \u2018Like she didn\u2019t just give us an amazing performance and visuals she literally burned down brat\u2026 charli xcx you will always be famous\u2019.<\/p>\n Another wrote that even though the singer\u2019s music wasn\u2019t their favourite\u00a0 ‘she was extraordinary.’ \u2018On that huge stage, alone, nowhere to hide, no one to hide behind. She was mesmerising. Almost shamanic.\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018It takes a supremely confident performer to get up on that huge stage all on your own and hold that enormous crowd in the palm of your hand for an hour,\u2019 one fan wrote. \u2018Thank you so much Glastonbury. So we burnt it down \u2013 does that mean Brat is finally over?? Maybe it is. But probably NOT. But we had to do it. And it looked cool,\u2019 the onscreen text read.<\/p>\n It continued: \u2018I think you all have proven to me that Brat is forever <3. I don\u2019t know who I am if it\u2019s over. It wasn\u2019t just a summer thing\u2026it\u2019s a forever thing xx.\u2019<\/p>\n Charli also surprised fans with an appearance alongside her fianc\u00e9 The 1975 drummer George Daniel, where they played a DJ set with his electronic label. She joined Daniel on the decks, with The 1975\u2019s Ross MacDonald also joining them on stage.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_code][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”] She has opened up before about feeling jealous of Daniel and the band\u2019s success while being on our with The 1975 and what the band members had to say about that. Charli is part of an exciting groundswell of female performers who are topping the charts, such as Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter. However, although she went on stage with Taylor Swift as part of her Reputation tour, speculation began that the pair had issues after Charli released her track Sympathy is a knife was a diss track about Swift, even though she made a PSA announcing that there were no such tracks on the album.<\/p>\n \u2018People are gonna think what they want to think,\u2019 she told Vulture. \u2018That song is about me and my feelings and my anxiety and the way my brain creates narratives and stories in my head when I feel insecure and how I don\u2019t want to be in those situations physically when I feel self-doubt.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n Fans, though, believed that the track was grounded in jealousy felt by Charli when she was on tour with The 1975 and Swift was dating frontman Matty Healy. This led to Charli XCX fans chanting \u2018Taylor is dead!\u2019 in Portuguese during a DJ set in S\u00e3o Paulo.\u00a0\u00a0 She has gone on to explain the complexities of being a female artist and the expectations and fabricated rivalries that are formed by fans, often involving women being pitted against each other.<\/p>\n \u2018It\u2019s so complicated,\u2019 she explained, elaborating about the impact of being \u2018a female artist, where you are pitted against your peers but also expected to be best friends with every single person constantly. 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At the end of Charli\u2019s Glastonbury set, a message appeared onstage from the star, reflecting on what the burning down of Brat actually meant.<\/p>\n‘BRAT IS A FOREVER THING.’<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222663923-scaled.jpg” alt=”Charli XCX” title_text=”Glastonbury Festival 2025 – Day Four” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]
\u2018Sometimes I’d look onstage and be like, \u201cOh my God … I’m never going to play these rooms, ever\u201d. That made me feel jealous,\u2019 she said in an interview with Vulture. \u2018I told Matty that. And George. They were both like, ‘Shut up. What are you talking about?'”.<\/p>\n
This prompted Charli to post an Instagram Story: \u2018Can the people who do this please stop. Online or at my shows. It is the opposite of what I want and it disturbs me that anyone would think there is room for this in this community. I will not tolerate it.\u2019<\/p>\n