"It's just this amazing thing when a peer throws the gauntlet down like that," the two-time Grammy winner said in reference to the success of Charli's sixth studio album.

Brat was Rolling Stone's album of the year for 2024, and judging from what Lorde has been saying about Charli XCX's record, it was probably hers, too. "I'd been trying to express [myself] in this naked way,

After working it out on the remix with Charli xcx, Lorde knew she had to work even harder on her own album to match the level of creative ingenuity her collaborator demonstrated on Brat.