For its 2025 edition, the We Love Green festival is headlining the British pop punk singer Charli XCX, who embodies the “brat” generation, for a single date in France, announced Monday, November 18, organizers.
The young woman is “very symbol of a brat generation which makes us thirst for freedom and hyper-creativity”, highlighted in a press release the festival, which will take place in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris, from June 6 to 8.
“She is completely the reflection of an era, she catalyzed everything, she digested it and she made it into a force. With her derision, she gives courage (to a generation)”
Marie Sabot, director of We Love Green.
The 32-year-old singer, with seven nominations at the next American Grammy Awards in early February, will perform for a single concert in France, on Saturday June 7.
With his neon green album Brat, released in June, it brought up to date the word “brat” – “dirty kid” in English and until then rather pejorative – to make it an ode to chaotic parties, while incorporating the questions of a generation and an invitation to self-acceptance.
“Brat summer has established itself as an aesthetic and a way of life”, estimated the British dictionary Collins, which crowned “brat” word of the year at the beginning of November.
Other talents were also announced by the festival: the French rap heavyweight SDM, the Australian indie pop group Parcels, the Americans from Magdalena Bay, the electro-pop duo Air, the electro artist Kavinsky and the singer Frenchwoman Yseult, the most listened to French-speaking artist internationally. These last three names also stood out during the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
These announcements created a flash rush to the festival site on Monday November 18, briefly putting the ticket office out of service. Last year, We Love Green had a record edition with nearly 110,000 festival-goers, who came in particular to listen to SZA and Justice.
“There are many people who are not alike and who, at some point, share the same energy”underlines Marie Sabot, convinced that “festivals are becoming a bit like the last places for diversity.”
