Charli xcx opens up about identity struggle behind album ‘Brat’

Charli XCX opens up about her struggles as a mixed-race woman and the inspiration behind her record-breaking album Brat.

A recent interview with Swedish rapper yung The Wind JournalIn the issue of winter 2025, the 33-year-old singer, whose father is Scottish and whose mother is Indian, has poured her heart into her experiences as a mixed woman and music.

Charli, who grew up in England, admits that feeling like an outsider is normal for her.

“I never felt accepted, that in the school for the blind it was not an Indian thing and I didn’t fully relate to myself because of a barrier,” “There was something unusual, displaced, where I didn’t fit in the two places.”

-Ga / -da 365 The singer, whose real name is Charlotte Aitchison, “went on,” then music, outside of that plot, but she also really wants to deny it. It created a world that allowed me [make Brat]“She kept going.

“I feel like I can be very scared. Not since 2016, really, but before I was very scared,” she added. “

Although the parents of Charli’s parents, Jon and Shamera Atiicyasson, are her biggest supporters, she was a voice about the challenges of growing up with parents of different genders.

“When I would go and visit my mother’s family, I felt all the famous scenes of nani and bappa playing in Bollywood movies and everyone playing in Gujarati,” she told Vogurati.

“But then I would go to this other house, which is mostly white