Charli XCX on Saturday Night Live: ‘My parents drove me to raves aged 15’

In trying to outline the phrase on SNL, she cited an incident the place US businesswoman Martha Stewart had mistakenly claimed a journalist who coated her authorized proceedings was useless.

“Martha will get mad about an previous journal article and he or she says that she’s glad the journalist who wrote it’s useless – that’s brat,” she stated.

“After which final Friday, when that actual journalist responded and stated, ‘Hey, ‘I am alive…’ – that’s extraordinarily brat.”

Charli, who was additionally a musical visitor on the present, went on to say: “Actually although, anybody could be brat.”

“Holding it actual could be very brat, it’s all about being weak, so actually, this can be a dream come true,” she stated.

“I’m so excited to be right here, and I am not used to being out this early on a Saturday evening however for you guys, it is price it.”

Charli has beforehand outlined brat as a lady who “has a breakdown, however form of like events by it”, who’s sincere, blunt, “just a little bit risky”.

She informed the BBC’s Sidetracked podcast that somebody brat may need “a pack of cigs, a Bic lighter and a strappy white high with no bra”.

Creating an aesthetic has been one thing popularised on TikTok, with Charli’s brat woman summer season seen as a rejection of different developments such because the “clear woman” who seems female and effectively stored.

Brat was topped Collins Dictionary phrase of the 12 months earlier this month, with lexicographers defining it as somebody with a “assured, unbiased and hedonistic angle”.