Watch Charli XCX and Caroline Polachek sing ‘Welcome To My Island’ and do the Macarena at Roskilde
Charli XCX was joined by Caroline Polachek at Roskilde Competition this weekend for a efficiency of ‘Welcome To My Island’ – they usually threw within the macarena for good measure.
Charli was enjoying the Area Stage on the Danish pageant on Friday (July 5) when she invited the previous Chairlift singer on stage for a uncommon public outing of her mixture of Polachek’s 2023 monitor.
In addition to a rendition of their joint tune, they sprinkled in a dose of evergreen dance craze the Macarena too – try the footage under.
@askemolin the way in which charli simply casually introduced out caroline 💚 i’ll by no means recuperate from this. 🥹 @Charli XCX @Caroline Polachek 🧚 #charlixcx #carolinepolachek #welcometomyisland #brat #bratsummer #rf24 #roskildefestival
WELCOME TO MY ISLAND BITCH! pic.twitter.com/F22eoJUP5L
— Information Charli XCX (@infocharlixcx) July 5, 2024
BRAT EMERGENCY! Caroline Polachek e Charli XCX performando “Welcome To My Island (Remix)” no Roskilde Competition. 💚 pic.twitter.com/4KL13LzEx2
— Caroline Polachek Brasil ꩜ (@polachekbrasil) July 6, 2024
XCX and her companion George Daniel of The 1975 remixed the tune final 12 months, forward of its inclusion on Polachek’s second solo album ‘Need, I Need To Flip Into You’. Charli then appeared on stage with Polachek on stage in Los Angeles just a few months later to offer the combination its dwell premiere.
Charli additionally instructed NME on the time that she had been “honoured” to get to remodel the monitor. “It was so enjoyable,” she mentioned. “I made it with my boyfriend [George Daniel], and we love Caroline. I’m such an enormous fan of Caroline.”
In different Charli information, she lately responded to Jarvis Cocker enjoying the Lorde-featuring remix of her monitor ‘Woman, So Complicated’ throughout his DJ set on the Stonebridge Bar at Glastonbury, writing merely: “Omg I’m useless”.
Elsewhere at Glastonbury, Charli took to the Ranges stage for ‘Charli XCX Presents Partygirl’, the place she introduced out particular friends Romy and Robyn for a efficiency of ‘With Each Heartbeat’ and a remix of ‘Dancing On My Personal’.
Followers took to social media to share frustration that her set wasn’t obtainable to look at, with one fan saying: “how within the identify of brat summer season was charli xcx on a non televised stage at Glastonbury 😭😭😭”
Others had been fast to level on the capability of the venue, which, though in line with Charli’s DJ roots, is capped at solely 7,000 – joking: “It’s truly BRAT to not get into the Charli XCX DJ set at Glasto.”
Charli additionally joined Troye Sivan to carry out their 2018 hit collaboration ‘1999’ at Wembley Stadium final month, at a present that she had beforehand been caught having fun with within the crowd, alongside Lorde.
In a four-star overview of ‘Brat’, NME wrote: “All of it paints an image of who XCX is in 2024.
“Rising pains, grief and aching doubts come alongside self-confidence, celebration and the information of the place XCX holds within the musical panorama – certainly, she kicks off ‘360’ with the figuring out: “I went my very own method and I made it / I’m your favorite reference child”. With ‘Brat’, XCX demonstrates that going her personal method will all the time sound fairly good.”