“That album makes me tear up. It makes me emotional, just because I think, wow, imagine being there in that crowd, listening to one of the greatest bands of all time”: Charli XCX on the Daft Punk album that hits different

Charli XCX’s Brat album - and the other versions that are the same but varying degrees of different - sounds very much like a love letter to club music and culture, and in a new interview, the star has been discussing her long-term devotion to the underground scene and how it’s helped her creatively.

“I was so inspired by nightlife when I was younger because it was so exciting and fresh,” she tells WSJ Style. “Where I grew up, me and my friends, we weren’t really ‘in’ culture - we weren’t experiencing nightlife or London - we were just watching [British teen TV show] Skins. And so to go to these raves and parties and stuff, it really affected me a lot.”