It’s safe to say that British singer Charli XCX’s June release of her album “BRAT” brought about a widespread cultural movement, “brat summer” even making its way to the polls by way of presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s various social media profiles. On her Oct. 11 remix album “Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat,” XCX dismantles once and for all the shallow misconception that to be “brat” is simply to partake in a party-girl lifestyle.

Without even listening to any of the music released on the album, the title and cover itself are strikingly poetic. Charli XCX was catapulted from cult obscurity into stardom in the four-month span between now and her June album release.

Remixes on this album are completely different from their original counterparts, in the same way XCX is a different person from when her album first released. Not only have the seasons changed from summer to fall, a feeling conceptually explored within the album, but XCX and her listeners are still living – growing – changing.

Several remixes have already made their way to streaming services by way of release as singles. “Von dutch a.g. Cook remix featuring addison rae,” “360 featuring robyn and yung lean,” “Girl, so confusing featuring lorde,” “Guess featuring Billie Eilish” and “Talk talk featuring troye sivan” all encapsulate the energy of the first album release. Bass-heavy club beats underscore lyrics of grandeur and opulence.

“Von dutch a.g. Cook remix featuring addison rae,” a quintessential club anthem, released all the way back in March. Setting expectations for the initial release of “BRAT”  it  did not disappoint. This song is the pinnacle of luxurious club girl chic. And of course it’s impossible to overlook Addison Raes’ scream midway through the song.

The “I’m just living that life” mentality is crucial to the understanding of “brat,” but it goes so much deeper than that. This mantra of sorts was repeated by hundreds of thousands of listeners over the course of “brat summer,” a term coined by XCX and her online fanbase.

To be brat is to go out and party on the weekends, yes, but what about when the weekend is over? Many would incorrectly assume that to be brat is to ignore the “sunday scaries” and focus all of your attention on the next opportunity to hit the dance floor. But XCX hits home the notion that introspectivity is just as – if not more important than partying.

As “I might say something stupid featuring the 1975 & jon hopkins” begins the listener is immediately captivated by a contemplative ambient piano and synthesizer. Sandwiched between “Sympathy is a knife featuring ariana grande” and “Talk talk featuring troye sivan,” the song at first listen feels somewhat out of place. This is the moment on this album where the listener begins to realize that there is way more going on here than just ear-candy.

During the duration of this album, the listener is taken on a journey of balance. An up-and-down roller coaster that juxtaposes the glam of being a pop star with the reality of being a human being. Dreamy vocals by “The 1975” frontman Matty Healy serve to highlight symptoms of fame Healy has experienced including drug abuse and emptiness.

Juxtaposition is everything but absent from “Everything is romantic featuring caroline polachek.”

The original song is a master class in word painting. The lyrics, backed by a drum-and-bass instrumental, produce vivid images in the listeners mind of a grand vacation in Italy.

In the original release of this song XCX romanticizes even the most mundane around her, but what happens when you get tired of the romanticization? According to XCX, you take hold of your reality.

In the original release of this song XCX romanticizes even the most mundane around her, but what happens when you get tired of the romanticization? According to XCX, you take hold of your reality.

The opening lines of the remix play with the phrase “fall in love again and again” in a repetitive yet hypnotic manner, repeatedly changing the lines structure to give it different meaning. “Fall” refers to the season while “fall in” or “fallin” refers to the act of falling itself. The repetition of the phrase “fall in love again and again” gives the listener a sense of cyclicity; as if this is a path XCX has traveled many times before.

The opening verse by Caroline Polachek makes it clear to the listener that this is not the same song they heard four months ago. Polachek and XCX alike are done with the need to force romanticization on their lives and would rather simply look within and face reality.

Polachek makes a comparison between dream and reality. According to Polachek, dreams are an idealistic state of being that are in many cases impossible to attain. Polachek is essentially waking herself up from the dream to live her life to the fullest.