1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: Spreit the flick with below shade. I don't think I've 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: ever met a mockumentary. I didn't love, to be honest, documentaries. 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: It's such a great genre. It is good morning, good morning, 4 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: good morning, guys. So appropriate that you played Tears for Fears. 5 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: Every one wants to rule the world, because that's exactly 6 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,319 Speaker 1: what Charlie XCX did back in twenty twenty four with 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: the release of her Brat album. It not only did 8 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: it spawn a whole bunch of hits, songs like Von 9 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: Dutch and three sixteen club Classics and Sympathies and Knife, 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: it also took over the whole summer. The whole season 11 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: was renamed Brat's Summer. Everything was Brat. Everything was Bratt. 12 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: You were either Brat or you were Nat. Everything was 13 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: like sixty seven. It had multiple meetings seven oh sorry, 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 1: six seven. That's I don't know what that's I know that. 15 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: And just for people who've forgotten just how big Bratt 16 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: Summer was, you might remember the twenty twenty four US 17 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: presidential election was happening. Joe Biden pulled out, Karmala Harris 18 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 1: was named as his replacement in the presidential race, and 19 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, Charlie XCX tweeted, Karmala is Brat, 20 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 1: and Karmala changed all of her social media profile pictures 21 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: to that slime green color, so she embraced that. She 22 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: said she is Bratt. So a US presidential candidate said 23 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 1: that she was Bratt. That's how big idea. Yeah, it 24 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: didn't didn't work out so good, didn't work out so good? 25 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: Maybe Trump is even more Bratt. So the upshot of 26 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: all of this was the Brat album was huge. It 27 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: was absolutely monstrous, sold a ton of copanies. There was 28 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: this world tour, and you could imagine behind the scenes, 29 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: this was an artist who'd been around for a while, 30 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: but it never had that sort of success before. Right, 31 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: all of a sudden was the biggest pop star in 32 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: the world. You could imagine behind the scenes, her record 33 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: label and management were thinking to themselves, how can we 34 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: keep the momentum going? How can we turn Bratt Summer 35 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: into Bratt Forever? And so this mockumentary basically depicts that scenario. 36 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: So you've got this kind of like ruthless record label 37 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: boss played by Patricia Arquett, who's just like just going, 38 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: you know, let's milk it for all we can, we can, 39 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 1: we can, we can basically, and so they're planning this 40 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 1: concert tour and Charlie XCX has got her creative director 41 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: working on this edgy concert with like strobe lights and 42 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: rude words on the screen, pretty much what the concert 43 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: tour turned out to be. But then with the influence 44 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,119 Speaker 1: of the record label, they're like, well, you know, let's 45 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 1: make a film. Let's get a director who's very prominent, 46 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: played by Alexander Scarsguard to come in and he's just 47 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: going to sit on the be a fly on the 48 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 1: wall document everything that's going on. But he can't be 49 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: a fly on the wall. He starts to interject. He's like, well, 50 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: you know this is this is great. I love what 51 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: you're doing. You guys should be so you'd be so 52 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 1: proud of what you're doing here. But you know, maybe 53 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: it's going to alienate people some of these strobe lights. 54 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: What if instead we had light up wristbands like at 55 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: the Coldplay concerts And so, of course, which is the 56 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: worst possible thing that Charlie XCX can imagine, and this 57 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 1: power struggle ends up causing her to sort of implode. 58 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,959 Speaker 1: She runs off to Ibitha where she has a sort 59 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 1: of a moment with Kylie Jenna. So there's a lot 60 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 1: of celebrity cameos in this, and it's just hilarious. Alexander 61 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: Scarsguard just will have you rolling in the aisles the 62 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: whole way through. He is amazing in this. Charlie XCX 63 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 1: is acting like she's the only one kind of playing 64 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 1: it straight. Everyone else is kind of playing it for laughs, 65 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: and she's like, there are moments where it's like, you go, 66 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: this must be pretty close to the bone, like some 67 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: of her kind of artistic struggles, her insecurities about her looks. 68 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: It's hard not to think that this is very close 69 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: to her reality during that period, and so there are 70 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: some moments where you go, Wow, this actually must be 71 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: what it's like on the inside of someone under such 72 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: intense pressure and intense spotlight. If you're wondering stylistically what 73 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: it's like, it's probably land somewhere in between. This is 74 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: spinal tap and that great British satire the thick of it. 75 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: So people who are fans of that show know that 76 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: sort of British sort of sharp satire, and this is 77 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: very similar to that. Do you see any Oscars No, No, 78 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: no oscars, and it's not for everybody. Certainly, it's a 79 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: musty for Charlie XCX fans. And if you're fans of mockumentaries, 80 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: how can you not like it? It's so good? Well, 81 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: how many apples I need, Charlie xx I are you giving? 82 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: I'm going to give it four? Okay, Well this is 83 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: really good. It's really good. I say, all right, thank 84 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: you man, thanks guys. I wait for next week.