Watch the London Eye lit up in Charli XCX’s Brat Inexperienced for New Yr’s Eve fireworks present
Charli XCX’s dominant 12 months went out with a bang because the London Eye was lit up in Brat Inexperienced throughout its New Yr’s Eve fireworks show final night time.
At midnight, the annual celebration to usher within the new 12 months as soon as once more noticed the centre of London adorned in lights, fireworks and music to mirror on a few of the greatest information and developments of the outdated 12 months alongside optimism for the 12 months forward.
This time, that included a bit the place the London Eye – itself celebrating its twenty fifth birthday – was cloaked within the distinctive shade of lime inexperienced that got here to dominate 2024’s Brat Summer time, whereas the strains of the album’s monitor ‘Apple’ rang out. Textual content studying “london” within the album’s signature lower-case typeface was additionally projected onto the massive wheel.
See the excerpt from the show beneath, and discover all the fireworks present by way of BBC iPlayer here.
The complete brat-themed fireworks part on the London Eye???????? pic.twitter.com/HuUeRIVqMs
— xcx supply (@xcxsource) January 1, 2025
Different moments of 2024 to be referenced within the celebration included the Summer time Olympics in Paris, England’s run to the ultimate of Euro 2024 and the eightieth anniversary of D-Day. The soundtrack included numerous the 12 months’s greatest hits, together with Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Espresso’ and Shaboozey’s ‘A Bar Tune (Tipsy)’, in addition to some older tracks that had notable resurgences in 2024, akin to Natasha Bedingfield’s ‘Unwritten’ and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s ‘Homicide On The Dancefloor’.
Reflecting on her huge 12 months, Charli not too long ago shared her unique ‘Brat’ manifesto from 2023 in a sequence of screenshots, revealing the element of her ambitions for the album’s idea, execution and promotion forward of its launch.
Writing about her imaginative and prescient for the album’s design, she wrote: “The paintings for ‘Brat’ will probably be obnoxious, boastful and daring. Some individuals will hate it. Will probably be closely textual content based mostly, both font on a plain background or some sort of portray on a wall or disregarded object.”
The discharge of ‘Brat’, her sixth studio album, noticed an unprecedented surge in reputation for the pop singer, leading to profitable enviornment excursions, together with a co-headlining tour with Troye Sivan.
Charli additionally has a busy 12 months deliberate for 2025. In addition to headlining Primavera, she has been confirmed as the primary headliner for subsequent 12 months’s Parklife and she or he will even curate a day at London’s LIDO Competition, the place she is going to ship a bill-topping efficiency.
Moreover, she is going to play two outside reveals in Belfast and Dublin, carry out at Coachella 2025, and, on prime of that, she’s additionally introduced a US enviornment tour for April and Might. You should purchase any remaining tickets for that here.