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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Maddy Mussen

Charli xcx at Glastonbury review: should-have-been headliner shows how it’s done

Charli xcx performs during the Glastonbury Festival - (Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Charli xcx got herself into hot water earlier this year when she donned a “Miss Should Be Headliner” sash for Coachella. It didn’t sit well with a lot of people, who found it to be tasteless and self obsessed. That is except for actual headliner Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, who appeared to find the whole thing very funny and even donned a “Brat” hat for his own performance.

Charli knows better than to pull a stunt like that again — as we’ve learned from her ever-changing Apple girls (this time Gracie Abrams) she doesn’t do repeats — but if she’d whipped that sash back out for Glastonbury 2025, it would have been totally warranted.

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