Charli XCX sent the internet into a frenzy after sharing a mysterious picture of just two bodies with their heads out of the frame across social media on Wednesday.
After asking fans if they could predict the featured guest on the upcoming remix of her song, Guess, off her sixth studio album, Brat, social media users quickly became convinced they had uncovered her latest collaborator’s identity.
Based off the image, shared on the 31-year-old singer’s Instagram and X account, eagle-eyed fans of Eilish pointed out that the person in the photo was rocking the exact same rings that the Bad Guy hitmaker has worn in several of her recent posts.
‘The rings… it’s Billie Eilish y’all omggg,’ one excitedly speculated on X as they shared a side-by-side of Charli XCX latest post and another, taken from Eilish’s Instagram, in which she had on the identifiable accessories.
Another tweeted: ‘BILLIE X CHARLI I JUST FELL TO MY KNEEESSSS.’
Charli XCX sent the internet into a frenzy after sharing a mysterious picture of just two bodies with their heads of the frame across social media on Wednesday
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‘OH MY GOOOODDDDDDDDD,’ a third X user wrote.
A fourth jokingly asked: ‘Does their name start with a B and end with ‘illie?’
In addition to the rings, another fan pointed out that Eilish is the ‘only person wearing 3 pairs of boxers right now.’
The website, UPROXX, also pointed out that ‘the text on the right side of the image teases the featured artist with underscores, and the number of underscores (13) matches up with the amount of characters in “Billie Eilish” (counting the space).’
Charli XCX’s fan-favorite track begins with the raunchy lyrics: ‘You wanna guess the colour of my underwear/ You wanna know what I got going on down there Is it pretty in pink or all see-through?/ Is it showing off my brand new lower back tattoo? You wanna put ’em in your mouth, pull ’em all down south.’
Earlier this summer, Charli XCX thrilled fans by teaming up with Lorde for a remix of Girl, So Confusing, which was released last month.
The shock collaboration follows rumours that the track on Charli’s album BRAT was about Lorde.
In the original version, Charli references an ‘awkward’ and confusing relationship she has with another female singer who she ‘doesn’t have much in common’ with.
Referencing the way the pair have been compared ever since they entered the music scene, the star sings: ‘People say we’re alike/They say we’ve got the same hair/We talk about making music/ But I don’t know if it’s honest.’
After asking fans if they could predict the featured guest on a remix of her 2024 song, Guess, off her sixth studio album, Brat, social media users quickly seemed to uncover her latest collaborator just based off a glimpse of the single’s cover art
Based off the image, shared on the 31-year-old singer’s Instagram and X account, eagle-eyed fans of Eilish pointed out that the person in the photo was wearing the exact same rings that the Bad Guy hitmaker has worn in several of her recent posts
In the surprise remix of the song, Lorde, 27, seemingly confirms it’s about her and addresses the spat.
The Green Light hitmaker sings: ‘Well honestly I was speechless/ When I woke up to your voice note / You told me how you’ve been feeling / Let’s work it out on the remix.
‘You’d always say, ‘Let’s go out’/ But then I’d cancel last minute/ I was so lost in my head/ And scared to be in the pictures.’
During the chorus, they put their voices together to belt: ‘And when we put this to bed/ The internet will go crazy’.
Now that they have hashed it out, the artists have no problem with supporting each other publicly.
Lorde took to her Instagram stories following the release of BRAT, to quip: ‘The only album I’ve ever presaved is out today. Charli just cooked this one different…
‘So much grit, grace and skin in the game. I speak for all of us when I say it’s an honor to be moved, changed and gagged by her work. There is NO ONE like this b**ch.’
‘The rings… it’s Billie Eilish y’all omggg,’ one excitedly speculated on X as they shared a side-by-side of Charli XCX latest post and another, taken from Eilish’s Instagram
Another tweeted: ‘BILLIE X CHARLI I JUST FELL TO MY KNEEESSSS’
BRAT has already debuted as the ‘most critically acclaimed record of the year’ surpassing Beyonce’s latest album Cowboy Carter and Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department
In May, Charli told Rolling Stone that she used to be ‘super jealous of the success’ that Lorde got in her early career.
She said: ‘You piece all this stuff together in your brain, like: She was into my music. She had big hair, I had big hair. She wore black lipstick, I once wore black lipstick.
‘You create these parallels and think, ‘Well, that could have been me.’ But it couldn’t have because we’re completely different people.
‘I wasn’t making music that sounded anything like Royals. I think you just read what you want into it because you’re feeling insecure about your own work.’
An interviewer even once mistook Charli for Lorde and she played along, pretending she was her.
However, Charli XCX is in the spotlight now after her hyper pop-electronic record BRAT has already debuted as the ‘most critically acclaimed record of the year’ surpassing Beyonce’s latest album Cowboy Carter and Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department.
BRAT is the singer’s sixth studio album and the record reportedly evokes and channels the illegal London rave scene where Charli started performing when she was 14 or 15
Ranking number one on Metacritic, Charli’s new album BRAT glided past Queen B’s hit country-pop album Cowboy Carter, which was released on March 29 and is the singer’s eighth studio album.
According to review aggregator Metacritic, received ‘universal acclaim’ based on a score of 92 out of 100 from 11 critics scores.
BRAT is the singer’s sixth studio album and the record reportedly evokes and channels the illegal London rave scene where Charli started performing when she was 14 or 15.
According to Charli XCX, BRAT is her ‘most aggressive and confrontational record’, but also her most vulnerable.