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- Charli xcx is on the cover of Vanity Fair’s November 2025 issue.
- The pop star reflected on her brat persona, saying that she knows that people think she’s a party girl.
- Charli xcx also opened up about what’s next after brat.
Charli xcx knows what you think about her. In fact the singer, who appears on the cover of Vanity Fair’s November 2025 issue, is always interested by how audiences see her. Speaking to the magazine, Charli opened up about her party girl image and reflected on who she’ll be once her brat era is over.
Speaking about her relationship with the press, Charli admitted that she reads everything written about her. “It’s fascinating to see how people ingest your personality and spit it back out—what people cling on to, what people miss,” she said. As for how her personality has been ingested by “the casual viewer” in recent years, the singer said, “They probably think I’m a girl who parties and does drugs and is a little bit bitchy.”
Recent tabloid rumors have proven that Charli isn’t wrong about how she’s perceived. Why else would fans be convinced that Taylor Swift’s new song “Actually Romantic” is about her based almost solely on the lyric, “I heard you call me ‘Boring Barbie’ when the coke’s got you brave”? (Charli declined to comment on the speculation.)
And while a party girl persona might bother some, Charli doesn’t seem all that concerned. When asked about her brat era coming to an end, she said, “I don’t really get to decide when it’s over or not.” At the end of the day, the culture, the media, the fans—they’ll decide for her. “I think that’s up to the world.”
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As for how she’ll be perceived once brat is over, she’s not so sure. “The end will be interesting,” she said. “Because then I have to look at myself in a different way and be stripped of the thing that everyone identified me with.”
That said, Charli isn’t inauthentic. “I hate this phrase, but what you see is what you get with me,” she said, adding that her whole life isn’t a “performance.”
She explained, “I’m not sat here talking to you being the way that I am onstage. But I think there is a correlation in that there’s a messiness and a lack of perfection. It’s the combination of talking about those things whilst also embracing them and really struggling with them is what makes me whole. And I think that makes me honest.”