Charli XCX's Brat and it's completely different but also still brat remixes, ranked

This is the way Brat Summer ends, not with a bang, but a Twitch livestream.

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On Thursday afternoon, hours after her deluxe, remixed, double-album version of her culture-shifting album Brat leaked - this one called Brat and it's completely different but also still brat - and hours before it would be officially released, Charli XCX held a listening party / DJ event / livestream deep in New York's Storm King Art Center, autumn leaves cascading down next to mammoth art installations. She stood beneath one of her own - a macro-scale version of the vinyl's gatefold erected in her signature Brat green - and pressed play on a phone, commanding an activated crowd.

This album (not to be confused with her previous re-release, Brat and It's the Same but There's Three More Songs So It's Not) transforms some of the preexisting songs through features with starry collaborators like Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Lorde, Robyn and her tour mate Troye Sivan. That is the beauty of dance music, anyway: It has an ability to reinvent itself.

Some are complete overhauls; others ring true to the original. It's up for the listener to find their favorites. Until then: Here's a ranking of the new tracks.

16. Rewind, feat. Bladee: Swedish rapper-singer Bladee adds a lackadaisical flow to Rewind, underlining the bleeding nostalgia of the original.

15. I might say something stupid, feat. The 1975 and Jon Hopkins: The piano ballad of Brat loses its hyper-present vocal effects, until the last minute-and-a-half, when the song crescendos into a slight, electro-emo dirge.

14. Mean girls, feat. Julian Casablancas: For her remix of Mean Girls, Charli XCX recruited the original mean girl of New York City: The Strokes' Julian Casablancas, patron saint of whatever commercialized “indie sleaze revival” cultural marketing movement has taken some corners of the internet by storm. It's too fitting.