See Charli XCX Bring Out Tinashe at ACL Festival

Brat, Charli’s sixth studio album, marked the culmination of her long ascent from hit songwriter to critical darling to arena-filling pop star, and Tinashe seems primed for a similar breakout with Popstar, her eighth studio album that’s so far amassed the best reviews and chart position of her dozen-year career.

“There’s a lot of us girls who have been working and grinding for 10-plus years in the game,” Tinashe told Rolling Stone in September. “I can only speak for myself, but how I’ve felt is that I’ve been perhaps underrated. [We’ve] constantly just been working with our heads down, grinding, grinding, grinding, grinding. You get to a point where you kind of have this breakout moment. It’s so exciting to see. I’m so proud and happy for all my peers and the girls who have been doing it for a decade as well who are getting their moment.”