Um, Charli XCX Said She Wants to “Quit Music” to Pursue Another Career Path

• Charli xcx revealed that she wants to quit music for acting.

• The admission comes on the heels of her most successful album release to date, Brat.

• Charli has admitted that the success of the Brat era has made her feel vulnerable, and more open to exploring her creative options.

Not to alarm you, but your fave It Girl pop star, Charli xcx, might be leaving the music industry for good after giving her Angels Brat—AKA one of the best dance records of all time.

Charli appeared on the Feb. 22 episode of Quenlin Blackwell‘s Feeding Starving Celebrities and revealed that she wants to potentially quit music in favor of giving actor a more serious go.

“Do you want to act more?” Quenlin asked her. Charli’s response? “Yes, are you kidding? I want to quit music, babe, and act. What else is there to do?”

And Charli even gave Quenlin a hint at the type of project she’d love to have made. “You know what I really want to do? I made a TikTok about this. An ultimate it-girl Final Destination,” she teased.

It’s not too surprising that Charli is wanting to at least take a break from music. The project, which won Grammys for Best Dance/Electronic Album, Best Recording Package, and Best Dance Pop Recording for “Von Dutch,” left her career in a very different place than when she started gaining attention for her music in the 2010s.

“I had just come out of this huge change in my life where I’d made the album Brat, which opened me up to a whole new audience,” she said during her February appearance on The Graham Norton Show. “I’d not experienced that scale of interest in what I had to say before and it was heavy, confusing and a very vulnerable change.”

“My response was to make art, so when I was asked to make a real documentary—a concert film—I wanted to poke fun at myself and that world. The music industry is ripe for satire, and I really enjoyed doing it,” she added of her mockumentary film, The Moment.

When asked if acting was always a passion of hers, Charli added, “I realized even when I am making music I am not listening to music. I’ve always watched and got inspiration from films so, after a while, I thought, ‘How could I work in that world?’ I don’t feel I have to decide which world I work in. I want to do what makes me feel good in the moment.”

Aside from The Moment, Charli also starred in Gregg Araki’s recently released movie, I Want Your Sex. She also has roles in The Gallerist and Faces of Death, which have yet to be released in theaters. Still keeping my fingers crossed for another album, though…

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