You might be surprised to learn that I am neither a girl or a brat. This is why I was not familiar with the "brat girl" craze, which swept our summer months thanks to Charli XCX. Since then, I've had a rapid-fire education that has left me feeling as if I've seen into the Lovecraftian lime-green abyss.
Brat Girl Summer, to summarise it, is one of those viral vibes that politicians adopt in an effort to be hip and trendy. Here's the mayor in London Sadiq Khan doing it, as well as democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harri. This renders any political commentary on millennial existential fear (something I know familiar with) in today's money-driven capitalist nightmare invalid.
Or, as Disco Elysium puts it (a game that I'm beginning to realise has more in common than expected with brat summer): "Capital is able to subsume any criticism into itself." Even those who would criticize capital end up reinforcing the system instead.
You may be wondering if I've lost my grip on reality. You are the fool, because if Brat Summer has sent me into the abyss, that makes it even Disco Elysium. Montaigne is a noted Australian singer who has worked on games such as Stray Gods. She ties this thematic masterpiece together with a parody Charli's "360".
@actualmontaigne Original sound - Montaigne
This might seem like a silly joke, but as you'll see below, the game has been ranked in PC Gamer's Top 100 for quite some time. Harry Du Bois, unavoidably, is a brat.
His sad, washed-up, exhausted, despondent, has-to-roll-to-look-at-himself-in-a-mirror face may be the most natural evolution of the brat girl summer aesthetic. Charli XCX explains the concept.
"You're like that girl, who is messy and likes partying and may say some dumb things at times. Who is a little messy, likes to party and sometimes has a breakdown. But, kind of, parties through it is very honest and blunt. A little bit volatile. Do dumb things. But it's a brat. You're brat. That's brat." Harry Du Bois, brat.
I believe, in all seriousness, you could put this quotation in a Savoir Faire dialogue for success as a custom modification, and nobody would notice for months. Harry's faded disco mystique and fragile mental state. His existentially apathetic approach to the decline of almost every faculty. The desire to party until the end of the universe. And the subsequent absorption into the system of political and capital powers that be. That's brat.
Montaigne, who was nominated for a emmy in 2004 for their work on Stray gods and co-wrote 1955, which became a chart-topping hit with 840,000 sales, has touched on the fact Disco Elysium (a game released in 2019) both predicted (and embodied a trend) that would not happen for five more years. I think. I still want the full version.
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