Lorde says that her upcoming album Virgin was definitely inspired by Charli XCX's 2024 smash album Brat.
She told the BBC, "I’d been kind of cooking this album up. We were like quite a way into it at that point. But Brat coming out really gave me a kick in a lot of ways. It forced me to further define what I was doing because Charli had so masterfully defined everything about Brat."
Lorde says working on the remix of "The Girl, So Confusing" with Charli helped her focus where she wanted to go with her own album. "Doing the remix together and kind of meeting her in that place of, like, rugged vulnerability and kind of like cracking open the thing -- and people responded really well to that -- I was like, 'OK, OK, cool! This is a good thing to be doing.'"