“On BRAT, Charli is once again channeling her experiences into radical, bite-sized pop songs. It makes CRASH feel even more like an aberration, drawing way closer from the forthright nature of how i’m feeling now. BRAT, though, is messy and vulnerable—in a way Charli’s work has lacked over the last d…”— Eric Bennett, pastemagazine.com
“The same can’t necessarily be said now, eight years later. While there have always been major players in pop, today one artist holds the monopoly: Taylor Swift.”— Alim Kheraj , dazeddigital.com
“Sour confirms this is just the start of her story, where she expertly rides the wave of teenage turbulence and emotional chaos down any road she chooses.”— Angie Martoccio, rollingstone.com
“She is a savvy game player; she knows it’s not cool to become the overdog.”— Spencer Kornhaber, theatlantic.com
“The funny thing about pop is that when it works, it’s seamless, but when it doesn’t — when you can somehow see what a song is going for but doesn’t quite get at — the illusion is broken.”— Pier Dominguez, buzzfeednews.com
“The fun challenge of writing a pop song is squeezing those evocative details into the catchiest melodic cadence you can possibly think of. I thrive on the challenge of sprinkling personal mementos and shreds of reality into a genre of music that is universally known for being, well, universal.”— Taylor Swift, elle.com
“She wears short skirts I wear t-shirts She’s cheer captain and Pop culture demonized the archetype of the pretty blond cheerleader to create a us vs them mentality and rivalry based on subjective comparisons in order to distract teen girls from realizing the true enemy, men”— Gina Divittorio, twitter.com
“People can go out and buy a record, you know, like an Englebert Humperdink [sic] record, then everybody can say it's the best record available. Which is rubbish. Doesn't mean to say because it's popular it's the best music.”— Eric Clapton, rollingstone.com
“Everything you’re saying sounds 100 percent like cultural brainwashing.”— Julian Casablancas, vulture.com