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Charli XCX releases pensive B-side ‘I Keep On Thinking Bout You Every Single Day And Night’
Charli XCX shares the stripped-back B-side ‘I Keep On Thinking Bout You Every Single Day And Night’ alongside a lo-fi black-and-white video.
Charli XCX has followed up Rock Music with a stripped-back companion piece, I Keep On Thinking Bout You Every Single Day And Night, and it lands with the sort of uneasy, inward drift that has long made her writing feel more complicated than the pop shorthand around it. The new B-side arrives with a lo-fi black-and-white video that sends Charli through hallways before she ends up in a dance studio, keeping the visuals spare and slightly dislocated.
The song is built around a set of questions that never quite settle into certainty. “Maybe we can become each other?” she asks at the start, before moving into lines about wondering whether she wants someone “as my best friend, or maybe if I’m a really late bloomer.” Later, she pushes the thought further, singing that she wonders “if I maybe could be gay/But come on, look at me, I’m probably not” and “if you were actually gay/Or if that’s somеthing you just say for your career.” The chorus keeps returning to the same refrain: “I keep thinking ’bout you every single day/I keep thinking ’bout you every single night.”
In an Instagram caption posted with the video, Charli explained where it came from: “i went to Kyoto for six weeks to shoot a film. while we were there, i made this video with aidan [Zamiri]. only available on vinyl & here on b.sides. so rip the audio if you want it xx.”
This release follows Rock Music, which Charli shared on Friday, May 8. That track marked a shift away from the club pressure of 2024’s Brat and into a more guitar-forward space, with a grungy video that cast A.G. Cook, Finn Keane, formerly known as Easyfun, and her husband, The 1975’s George Daniel, as her rock band. The move prompted plenty of speculation about where she was headed next, especially after a British Vogue interview previewed the line “I think the dance floor is dead, so now we’re making rock music.” Charli later pushed back on the idea of a full genre turn, saying, “I never said I was making a rock album.”
Even so, she has been clear about not wanting to simply repeat Brat. In the same British Vogue piece, she said that making another record with a more dance-leaning feel would have been “really hard, really sad,” adding, “What’s interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be”.
Brat remains the obvious reference point, though. Released in 2024, it became a cultural phenomenon and helped define “Brat Summer,” solidifying Charli XCX’s status as a global superstar in the process. Since then, she has kept moving across formats and projects rather than sitting still. She released a soundtrack album for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, wrote music for the A24 film Mother Mary starring Anne Hathaway, appeared in her own mockumentary The Moment, took a role in the romance Erupcja, and was cast in the fantasy 100 Nights Of Hero. She also played a comedic version of herself in Overcompensating and was recently announced alongside Supergirl star Milly Alcock in a new horror film directed by Takashi Miike.
Her next major live moment is already on the calendar. In August, Charli will return to the stage for her headline debut at Reading & Leeds, where she tops the bill alongside Fontaines D.C., Raye, Florence + The Machine, Dave and Chase & Status. Visit here for tickets and more information.
