{"id":67415,"date":"2026-06-26T04:19:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/charli-xcx-releases-wink-wink-single-and-music-video\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:19:33","slug":"charli-xcx-releases-wink-wink-single-and-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/charli-xcx-releases-wink-wink-single-and-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Charli XCX Releases &#8216;Wink Wink&#8217; Single and Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/commentary-charli-xcx-pop-girl-moment-brat-lorde-1235045384\/\">Brat Summer<\/a>\u2018s diet consisted of cigarettes, but this summer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/charli-xcx\/\" id=\"auto-tag_charli-xcx\" data-tag=\"charli-xcx\">Charli XCX<\/a> is indulging in strawberries and cream her new single \u201cWink Wink.\u201d The singer described the song as the \u201cfinal piece in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-new-album-music-fashion-film-1235570567\/\">Music, Fashion, Film<\/a><\/em> rollout,\u201d according to a video posted to her @b.sides Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe song\u2019s accompanying Aidan Zamiri-directed video opens with Charli laying in a field snacking on berries underneath a cloudy sky. Soon, we see Charli sitting on top on her roof at home and writing in her diary as she insists that she\u2019s changed, reasoning in the open verse: \u201cI used to jump on trampolines with no underwear on\/<br \/>And now I basically just wear trousers.\u201d As she goes about washing windows, doing laundry, and cleaning the dishes, each chore gets progressively provocative as she sings the chorus, \u201cHere\u2019s the truth, and I gotta be honest I\u2019m not a bad girl anymore, I promise.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charli xcx - Wink Wink (Official Video)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BAp4q27hTOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWink Wink\u201d follows previous tracks \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-rock-music-single-1235556390\/\">Rock Music<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-new-song-ss26-music-video-1235566882\/\">SS26<\/a>.\u201d The last two singles were quickly supplemented with the respective B sides \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-thinking-bout-you-day-night-new-song-video-1235560252\/\">I Keep on Thinking Bout You Every Single Day and Night<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-shares-playboy-bunny-1235567645\/\">Playboy Bunny<\/a>,\u201d which are only available to hear on Instagram or via a limited edition 7-inch vinyl. Only time will tell what will complement the release of \u201cWink Wink.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCharli recently revealed her seventh record would feature one collaboration, but declined to divulge who the artist is on the French talk show <em>Quotidien<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019d bet money on you not guessing. You can try!\u201d she told Yann Barth\u00e8s. \u201cYou could have 1,000 chances and you still wouldn\u2019t guess [who it is].\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Charli xcx reveals on Quotidien there\u2019s a collaboration on \u2018Music, Fashion, Film\u2019:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could have 1,000 chances and you still wouldn\u2019t guess [the collaborator]\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y5TvMeRSNo\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/y5TvMeRSNo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pop Crave (@PopCrave) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PopCrave\/status\/2069949192789688415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">June 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Music, Fashion, Film<\/em>, XCX\u2019s follow-up to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/charli-xcx-brat-review-1235031414\/\">Brat<\/a><\/em>, is out on July 24. The album cover was shot by Charli\u2019s close confidant Aidan Zamiri and features a black-and-white image of John Cale, Martin Scorsese, and Marc Jacobs. Cale had never met Jacobs or Scorsese before the shoot. \u201cIt was a type of surreal cultural compendium assembled to document yet another form of art.\u00a0I wanted to be a fly on the wall watching this unfold, but I had to be\u00a0<em>in<\/em>\u00a0it,\u201d he told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/john-cale-charli-xcx-music-fashion-film-interview-1235580761\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCharli will make her debut festival performance of the album at Lollapalooza on July 31, and then Charli will hit stages across the United States and United Kingdom on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-announces-music-fashion-film-fall-tour-1235572499\/\"><em>Music, Fashion, Film<\/em> tour<\/a> later this fall.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t really feel the need to explain my intentions behind anything I do,\u201d Charli told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/charli-xcx-new-album-music-fashion-film-brat-1235576603\/\"><em>Rolling Stone <\/em>in her July\/August cover story<\/a>. \u201cI find that things can be earnest and funny at the same time, and they don\u2019t have to exclusively live separately. That\u2019s how I feel about a lot of my work, and if people interpret that as trolling, then that\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s funny the way that success can cage you, but I\u2019ve \u00adexperienced such a wide range of success and failure,\u201d she continued. \u201cFor the people who knew me before\u00a0<em>Brat,<\/em>\u00a0they know the ebbs and flows of my process, and I understand the ebbs and flows of pop music and pop culture. So I feel relatively free in creating whatever I\u2019ll do next.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-new-song-music-video-wink-wink-1235583175\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brat Summer\u2018s diet consisted of cigarettes, but this summer Charli XCX is indulging in strawberries and cream her new single \u201cWink Wink.\u201d The singer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":67416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}