The Dance Floor Lives!

Charli XCX caused a stir earlier this year, as is her specialty, with a lyric in her song “Rock Music.” “I think the dance floor is dead,” she sang, causing everyone from Madonna to Rochelle Jordan to Courtney Love to respond. Now Charli is half-heartedly walking the comment back. It turns out the dance floor is dead only for her. “That lyric is very much about my relationship with Brat, and my personal experience with that album,” she said in her new Rolling Stone cover story. “My husband runs a dance-music label. There’s been such a wealth of incredible dance/electronic-adjacent records that have been coming out recently, whether it’s Slayyyter or Underscores or PinkPantheress. Dance music is in an incredible place.”

For what it’s worth, Charli was well aware that the anti-dance-floor pivot would annoy the world. “For me, it’s fun to flip the form,” she told British Vogue earlier this year. “We know there’s gonna be people who are bothered by it, but that’s fine.” And when the writer pointed out that there would be think pieces about the line, she made a face and said, “I know.” There’s probably a few lines ready to be discussed then walked back on her new album, Music, Fashion, Film, which comes out on July 24. Get ready.