Charli XCX Is Here for Kamala Harris’s ‘Brat’ Campaign: ‘Happy to Help to Prevent Democracy From Failing’
Charli XCX caught heat for her July tweet about Kamala Harris being “brat,” but in a new interview with New York Magazine, the pop star says she was just trying to share “something positive and lighthearted.” That’s not how it was viewed by some in the media, especially those of the Fox News ilk.
The pop singer, however, is standing by the viral moment and is glad her support of the Democratic presidential nominee may help Harris at the polls. “To be on the right side of democracy, the right side of women’s rights, is hugely important to me,” she told New York Magazine. “I’m happy to help to prevent democracy from failing forever.” (Being English, of course, precludes Charli XCX from voting in U.S. elections.)
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But the songwriter stopped short of announcing a new political bend to her music. “I’m not Bob Dylan, and I’ve never pretended to be,” she said. “Everything I do in my life feeds back into my art. Everything I say, wear, think, enjoy — it all funnels back into my art. Politics doesn’t feed my art.”
The “Kamala IS brat” tweet spawned countless memes, and Harris’s campaign embraced her brat-ification, even if the media couldn’t quite understand what it all meant. Stephen Colbert poked fun at Jake Tapper during a segment on his late-night show: “If you’re a little confused about this brat thing, you’re not as confused as CNN,” he said. “Nothing says ‘I’m hip to what’s hip’ like printing out a meme and putting on your reading glasses.”
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