Charli XCX says her tracks for Wuthering Heights sound very different to Brat

By Hannah Roberts, PA Senior Entertainment Reporter

Brat star Charli XCX has said her original songs for the new Wuthering Heights film “couldn’t be more different from Brat”.

The pop star, 33, who won five Brit awards for her genre-defying album, is providing music to soundtrack Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the classic Emily Brontë novel.

Speaking to Vanity Fair, the Guess singer said the film features an “elegant and brutal sound palette…. It couldn’t be more different from Brat.”

The film, which is being released on Valentine’s Day 2026, stars Australian actors Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie who appear in the film’s trailer, which features provocative imagery and the tagline: “Drive me mad.”

The singer, whose real name is Charlotte Aitchison, has secured a number of on-screen roles this year, including in Pete Ohs’ Erupcja, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights Of Hero, which will close the BFI London Film Festival this weekend.

She also stars in the upcoming A24 film The Moment, which appears to be inspired by the phenomenon of Brat, and is “based on an original idea” by Charli XCX, according to a teaser.

The singer said: “It’s not a tour documentary or a concert film in any way, but the seed of the idea was conceived from this idea of being pressured to make one.

“It’s fiction, but it’s the realest depiction of the music industry that I’ve ever seen.”

Charli XCX soared to new levels of fame following the release of her culture-shaping sixth studio album in June 2024.

The music artist, who blends elements of hyper-pop, electronica and dance music, said the end of the Brat phenomenon, which became an aesthetic as well as a lifestyle craze, “will be interesting”.

“I don’t really get to decide when it’s over or not. I think that’s up to the world”, she told Vanity Fair.

“I don’t think people will forget it.”

She added: “The end will be interesting because then I have to look at myself in a different way and be stripped of the thing that everyone identified me with.”

“I not only know that this won’t last forever. I’m also really interested in the fact that it doesn’t”, she said.

The singer was recently wed to The 1975 drummer George Daniel in a ceremony she described as “just another cool day”.

The pop star had a ceremony in London this summer and another wedding celebration abroad, which reportedly took place in Sicily.

“It’s cool to be married,” the Von Dutch singer told the US magazine.

“I never really saw it for myself, to be honest. It was cool to feel so in love, and do it our way.

“We both kind of just wanted to not feel the pressures of the things you’re supposed to feel when you get married.”

The singer said she did not want to feel that “this is the day of your life as a woman”.

“I’m like, it’s actually just another cool day”, she said.

“It was cute. He’s the best. He really understands who I am at my best and at my worst.”

Daniel’s bandmate, The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, was among the famous stars at the couple’s wedding ceremony in Italy.

The singer said: “When he’s (Daniel’s) deep within making a 1975 record and needs perspective, we can talk about it, and vice versa.

“It feels very calming to have that. Sometimes, you have to really grapple with fear and expectation and it being over.”