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Belfast is set for another brat summer next year as Charli XCX has been confirmed as a headliner at Belsonic in 2025.<\/p>\n
The annual outdoor music festival in Ormeau Park has become a staple of the festival scene.<\/p>\n
Crowds of thousands descend on the venue for the three-week festival, which is normally held in June. <\/p>\n
Charli XCX will be among other big names performing at the festival such as Justin Timberlake, Alanis Morissette, and local legends Snow Patrol, with more names still to be announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Brat – and the ‘brat summer’ the album spawned – was one of the pop culture sensations of 2024.<\/p>\n
Charli’s sixth album, released in June, was a critical success worldwide and a recent remix album topped the UK charts<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n The album’s minimalistic album art – with the word Brat stylised in a low-resolution Arial font on a lime-green background – became the fodder of memes, with individuals and businesses jumping on the brat summer trend. <\/p>\n The idea of ‘brat’ was adopted by some fans as a rejection of the “clean girl” aesthetic, popularised on TikTok.<\/p>\n Posting on social media, Charli described brat as a girl who “is a little messy and likes to party and maybe says some dumb things some times\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWho feels like herself but maybe also has a breakdown. But kind of like parties through it, is very honest, very blunt. A little bit volatile. Like, does dumb things. But it\u2019s brat. You\u2019re brat. That\u2019s brat.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n