Charli XCX insisted that dance music is "deep" as she won Best Dance Act at the BRIT Awards 2025 with Mastercard.
The 32-year-old pop star looked thrilled as she took to the stage for the second time on Saturday (01.03.25) evening to collect the accolade, having fought off competition from Becky Hill, Chase and Status, Fred again.. and Nia Archives.
Speaking live on stage at the O2 Arena, she said: "Look, I feel like dance music, electric music gets a really bad rep because I feel like everybody is like 'Oh, it's not really that deep, is it?' And I feel like it is. I feel like this genre of music for me is euphoric, and it allows me to feel on such a deep level. And maybe that's not the way for everyone but for me it is."
Less than an hour beforehand, the 'brat' hitmaker won Song of the Year for ‘Guess’, which was released as part of her album 'Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat' and featured Billie Eilish.
She said: "Hi. Thank you, erm, yeah, this is cool. I'm really happy that a song about underwear now has a BRIT Award. Very important stuff. I'm sure that proves something about songwriting, I'm not sure what.
"Thank you to Billie, I asked whether she wanted to be on the song about three days before we shot the music video, and five days before it came out so shout out to her for moving with pace. Not all artists are spontaneous despite them claiming that they are so, thank you Billie, for running and gunning it with me, that was really cool.
