Charli xcx has launched Home, the primary observe from her upcoming album written for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights.
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The movie stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi and is anticipated to premiere in 2026.
The tune was co-written with Finn Keane and includes a spoken-word contribution from Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale.
Charli mentioned the collaboration was impressed by Cale’s description of music needing to be “elegant and brutal,” a phrase she revisited whereas engaged on the soundtrack.
Charli started writing music for the movie after being approached by Fennell in late 2024. She described the challenge as a inventive departure from her earlier album, Brat, and mentioned the brand new materials displays the emotional depth and bleak ambiance of the supply materials.
Home is the primary preview of a full-length album that Charli has written for the movie. A music video directed by Mitch Ryan accompanies the discharge.
Along with her music, Charli is increasing her work in movie. She is going to star in A24’s The Second, based mostly on her authentic idea and directed by Aidan Zamiri. The challenge is the primary co-production from her new enterprise, studio365.
Charli can be set to look in a number of upcoming movies, together with Daniel Goldhaber’s Faces of Dying remake, Greg Araki’s I Need Your Intercourse, Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist, Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights Of Hero, Romain Gavras’ Sacrifice, and Pete Ohs’ Erupcja.
In a prolonged assertion relating to the challenge, the Apple hitmaker mentioned: “I received a name from Emerald Fennell final Christmas asking whether or not I might contemplate engaged on a tune for her adaptation of Wuthering Heights. I learn the script and instantly felt impressed so Finn Keane and I started engaged on not only one however many songs that we felt linked to the world she was creating. After being so within the depths of my earlier album, I used to be excited to flee into one thing fully new, fully reverse. After I consider Wuthering Heights, I consider many issues. I consider ardour and ache. I consider England. I consider the Moors, I consider the mud and the chilly. I consider dedication and grit.”
On being an enormous fan of The Velvet Underground, she continued: “A couple of years in the past, I watched Todd Haynes’ documentary about The Velvet Underground. As lots of you already know I’m an enormous fan of the band and was actually taken by the documentary. One factor that caught with me was how John Cale described a key sonic requirement of The Velvet Underground. That any tune needed to be each “elegant and brutal”. I received actually caught on that phrase. I write it down on my notes app and would pull it up occasionally and take into consideration what he meant.
“When engaged on music for this movie, “elegant and brutal” was a phrase I stored coming again to. Sooner or later, while on tour in Austin, Finn and I went to the studio and wrote the bones for a tune that may ultimately develop into Home. When the summer time ended, I used to be nonetheless ruminating on John’s phrases. So I made a decision to achieve out to him to get his opinion on the songs that his phrase had so deeply impressed, but additionally to see whether or not he would possibly wish to collaborate on any.”
Charli was decreased to tears listening to Cale’s contribution.
She added: “We received linked, we spoke on the cellphone and wow… that voice, so elegant, so brutal. I despatched him some songs and we began speaking particularly about Home. We spoke concerning the concept of a poem. He recorded one thing and despatched it to me. One thing that solely John may do. And it was… nicely, it made my cry.
“I really feel so fortunate to have been capable of work with John on this tune. I’ve been so excited to share it with you all, sitting quietly in anticipation.
“Love you all, let’s fall in love time and again 3.”
