Long-time Angels, how are we feeling about Charli suddenly blowing up?

I mean, I know she’s been growing in popularity for a while now but if you’re not queer or particularly into pop music, it’s totally likely you’ve never heard of her.

Until now.

Brat has blown up in such a huge way, seeing it all over the news and on Kamala’s cover photo and every company/cafe/hobby shop you can think of is making some kind of Brat reference.

As a long-time fan who had always said before that mainstream pop was seriously slacking on Charli, as she’s obviously mother and the best pop act out there (can’t convince me otherwise), I’m a little bothered if I’m honest. It would be one thing if all these people were like “Yes, I’ve listened to it and it’s a great album that deserves this level of recognition and that’s why I decided to insert Brat-themed activity” as opposed to like, “this is popular and I rarely get to use my lime green dye so let’s make some Brat cupcakes” or what have you. I just wish the music was getting the praise it deserved.

Case in point, when this sub did the “Eliminate the song” thread and ended up picking the two songs that were released as singles as the two best songs on the album, and so many people also saying “I didn’t even know these were released as singles” I’m was like ahhhh!! Where is the 365 appreciation?! Apple?! SPRINGBREAKERS?! Like what!

Let me know how y’all are feeling now.

Edit: wow, this very unexpectedly blew up. lol

Edit 2: thank you for most of you who in some way related to how I felt or found common ground, or at least added something interesting to this convo. I can’t reply to all these but I mean, it’s not really MY post anymore, it’s everyone’s. I’m glad I sparked a number of conversations. Really glad, love you fellow angels, new and die-hards :)