Today her Twitter is buzzing with the positive response to the new mega-pop banger “Good Ones” accompanied by a dramatic, goth, dance video.

The singer said in a statement: “Today, I, the inimitable Charli XCX, am releasing a brand new single ‘Good Ones’, accompanied by a twisted, dramatic and quite frankly electrifying music video“. In a video, we can see Charli perform a dance routine at the funeral ceremony. Watch the video below:

The visuals for “Good Ones” was produced by Oscar Holter of Max Martin’s Wolf Cousins and directed by Hannah Lux Davis. It was filmed in Mexico. Charli XCX commented on it marks the first single of a “new chapter” that “embraces all that my life has to offer in today’s world – fame, glamour, inner demons and global hits“. She explains in a statement: “The video sees me dramatically mourning the untimely loss of my partner as I battle with the realisation that once again I’ve abandoned the goodness in my life, in favour of the sinister, with a visual aesthetic that marks a new era of me: Charli XCX“. 

She added that the song is about her inability to stay in healthy relationships and being drawn to toxic ones. The “Good Ones” can be streamed and purchased here.

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Recently the singer posted an image of a headstone with the date of 18th March 2022. It might be a tease of the release date of her new, fifth album. Nothing has been confirmed yet. That would mark her final record under contract with Waner. Charli XCX told Refinery29: “I’m exploring what it means to be a pop star on a major label in a not very current way. And that’s really fun to me”.

jk jk… but seriously tho.. the next album will be my 5th and final album under my current record deal – which i signed when I was 16. kinda crazy.. — Charli (@charli_xcx) June 12, 2020

my new song Good Ones arrives on September 2nd. get ready to surrender pre save now. happy birthday to me https://t.co/vWV9CrELr5 pic.twitter.com/ItGTEcVw5d

— Charli (@charli_xcx) August 2, 2021

The single will be the first from Charli XCX upcoming fifth album, which will be the singer’s first solo material since last year’s “How I’m Feeling Now“.
The last album has been written and recorded during the pandemic and it’s an “anxiety-fuelled trip“. The album received great reviews with four stars from NME that called it: “a musical time capsule, evoking the confusion that so many of us are feeling at the moment. Brimming with the prickling anxiety and stress that’s become commonplace during the pandemic (…) it’s a glorious, experimental collection – and a reminder that within all of the current heartache and destruction, we’re never truly on our own“. The release clearly shows “that we’re all feeling the effects of lockdown and missing our loved ones“.  Check out the full mxdwn review of the album here.
Charlotte Emma Aitchison, aka Charli XCS, recently told Insider that she’s thinking about going back to the music that she started pre-lockdown: “I’m sort of beginning to think about that again. There are thoughts that I’m having, and a direction that I’m taking.”
Charli XCX new single “Good Ones” is out on 2nd September and can be pre-saved here.

Charli XCX will play at the Reading and Leeds Festival at the end of summer. Tickets are still available to purchase. She will also play at Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona in 2022 alongside Beck, Disclosure and Jorja Smith.