Charli XCX (born Charlotte Emma Aitchison) has released the music video for “Speed Drive”, her track from Barbie: The Album. “Speed Drive” has so far amassed more than 70M global streams, hit No. 9 on the UK Official Charts and entered the Billboard Hot 100 becoming Charli’s fifth song to chart in the States.
Filmed in L.A., the video was co-directed by herself with Ramez Silyan, starring Charli and Devon Lee Carlson racing a pink Corvette convertible under the Californian sun. In the video Charli teases a future project with Sam Smith when she receives a phone call from Sam on her Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5.
The critically acclaimed British singer-songwriter continues to position herself as a prolific collaborator in the film space, producing original scores and tracks for feature film story-telling. Earlier this year she made “Hot Girl”, the official song for A24 teen slasher film ‘Bodies, Bodies, Bodies’. Directed by Halina Reijn and starring Rachel Sennott; the track instantly went down as a cult fan favorite. Charli has contributed to the original score of teen queer comedy ‘Bottoms’, directed by Emma Seligman. It is released on August 25 in the US.
Next up Charli is co-executive producing with Jack Antonoff the musical score for ‘Mother Mary’, David Lowry’s film which follows a fictional pop musician starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel due for release in 2024.
As an actress Charli has been cast in the reboot of the 1978 cult horror classic ‘Faces of Death’, which is currently under production.
