A lot of people online haven’t been riding with Charli xcx‘s pivot away from breakout album Brat — with the backlash pertaining in particular to her recent lyrical declaration that dance music is “dead” — and in a new interview, the pop star was candid about how it’s been affecting her mentally.
In her Rolling Stone cover story published Thursday (June 18), Charli started by addressing the negative response to parts of her May single, “Rock Music.” On the experimental track, she sings, “I think the dance floor is dead/ So now we’re making rock music.”
“That lyric is very much about…
