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Charli XCX has a Hollywood legend on her side for her new era.
Charli announced her upcoming album Music, Fashion, Film on Monday (June 1), revealing the 11-track project, which drops in July, to be 30 minutes and 5 seconds long and sharing the cover art on Instagram featuring some familiar faces that match the project title: The Velvet Underground founding member John Cale, fashion designer Marc Jacobs and legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese.
The black-and-white snap, capturing the three experts in their field in a room together, was captured by Aidan Zamiri, who directed the 2026 mockumentary The Moment and Charli's recent music videos, per Stereogum.
Music, Fashion, Film serves as the follow-up to the 2024 album Brat and will feature a different sound than the project that launched the pop culture phenomenon that was Brat Summer. In a video shared to her TikTok, the "Apple" musician explained that her new album is "really different" than her last and she understands that some fans might not enjoy it as much.
"It's really different from the last one. Yeah, that is fact. And I love it and you might not. And that's cool," she said. "But if you do, then that's cute but if you don't, like, that's totally OK because that's just what it is to have personal preferences."
The comments come weeks after Charli first teased her new era, which fans got their first taste of with the lead single "Rock Music." In a cover story with British Vogue about her "rock reinvention," she recognized that there will be some "who are bothered by it" but that it's "fun to flip the form."
"If I'd made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad," she said. She added of the rock genre, "but what's interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be."
Music, Fashion, Film drops July 24.