Charli XCX triumphs at We Love Green, celebrating the first anniversary of her album "Brat" with a hedonistic romp

This Saturday, June 7, the We Love Green festival could almost have been renamed We Love Lime Green, as the crowd invading the forest setting of the Bois de Vincennes in Paris multiplied the references (from shoes to hair color) to the color "lime green." (lime in English) of the now iconic cover of Brat , the sixth album by English singer Charli XCX, released exactly one year ago. Having become a cultural and commercial phenomenon in twelve months, the "bad girl" was the undisputed star of the second day of the event, which ends on Sunday, June 8.

As is often the case, this pioneering festival, since 2010, of eco-responsible gatherings, always on the lookout for avant-garde pop and urban music, had a good nose for it. "We signed for it to come around the time of Brat's release, " explains Emmanuel de Buretel, head of the Because Music record label, co-producer of We Love Green. "At the time, its fee was affordable, it would be much less so today," he says, welcoming this French exclusivity.

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