For much of her career as a pop scholar/disruptor, it was a toss-up as to whether the English singer would take over the global charts with her hooky megahits (Icona Pop’s “I Love It” or her own “Boom Clap”) or cement her status as the darling of the electropop underground with boundary-pushing bangers like “Vroom Vroom.” What the Charli xcx 15-Year Plan for Pop Domination presupposes is…why not both? Cult classic Pop 2, which included “Unlock It,” was followed by ambitious concept albums like CRASH, with the forward-looking “Good Ones” and “Used to Know Me,” and the pandemic-era how i’m feeling now, where songs like “party 4 u” and “enemy” brought the club home. But it was the triumphant BRAT that defined summer 2024 with hits like “Apple” and “360,” cleaned up at the Grammys, inspired remixes with Ariana and Billie, and changed the way we view the color neon green forever. Charli bet the house on her own maverick vision, and won big.