The 12:35 Metro-North to Beacon was the most brutal train I have ever seen in my life. It was packed with twenty-somethings in fishnets and flashy jewelry, neon-dyed hair and all-pink tracksuits, crop tops and tall dark boots. Chartreuse green everything. A group of friends were talking about their plans to go to an FKA twigs themed rave night. Others compared the best Brooklyn bars for hinge dates. “Do we know if Caroline Calloway is still alive?” someone in the line behind me asked, sounding genuinely concerned.

Reporters and label heads, TikTokers and art park enthusiasts, the unemployed: we were all here on Thursday afternoon to visit the Storm King Art Center, an outdoor sculpture museum in New York’s Hudson Valley. The event: a last-minute show by Charli XCX. She was about to unveil her new remix album BRATwhich is packed with friends and fellow weirdos, from Ariana Grande to Bon Iver to Bb trickz to Bladee. BRAT is one of the blockbuster albums of the year: critically acclaimed across the board, played in probably every café and at every party for months, turned into a political rallying cry for Kamala Harris’ campaign. We should have had enough of it by now, but it’s hard to resist when Charli keeps slinging stacked remixes and cheeky tricks like this Storm King one-off.

After we reached Beacon, shuttle buses took us to the edge of the park. As we walked in large clumps through a winding path of autumn leaves, it felt like we were on a school trip. The center of Storm King looked like one of those Christmas village sets, except with a theme afterwards BRAT: chartreuse-green cocktails, drink stands with “Vitamin Water is BRAT” signs, and a two-sided wooden wall structure that looked like a huge version of a green folder you’d use in high school science classes. It listed every BRAT song along with the remix features and was so big that it seemed to overshadow Alice Aycock’s swirling, 29-foot version Triple manifestation sculpture nearby.

When a dark van pulled up and Charli jumped out, the four hundred or so people crowded around the ramp BRAT structure was overhauled. There was no real stage or setup other than the speakers, so she stood in the building and switched songs on her phone as if we were all huddled together listening to a friend operate the aux at a house party. “How fucking sick is this?” she beamed, dashing in a fur coat and denim. ‘We are now artificial bitters.’ Before she started, she took a moment to explain how the remix album leaked with a classic Charli cheek: “I know no one here listened to the leak. So when you fucking sing the words, I know it! Everyone cheered and she pressed play. With the Storm King event in mind, here are five tips from Charli XCX’s Brat and it’s completely different but still brat.