🎵 Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat (Charli XCX)

I was really intrigued by Charli XCX’s remix album, especially with all the names included. Although these tracks clearly reference the original tracks, as Kieran Press-Reynolds touches on, it is almost a whole new project.

Unlike those remix albums that tack on five DJ flips of the same tune or specific genre edits of a handful of hits, Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat is pretty much a whole new project. The guts of most songs—lyrics, structures, beats, even the feelings—have been rewired, but without completely erasing the essence of the originals.

Source: 5 Takeaways From Charli XCX’s New BRAT Remix Album by Kieran Press-Reynolds

Along with listening to The Bleachers reworking of Strange Desires with A Stranger Desired, I wonder what place the original serves? If Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat came out first, would it still have the same impact?