Charli XCX has teased her new song House that is set to be featured on the Wuthering Heights soundtrack.
The 33-year-old pop star has collaborated with The Velvet Underground’s John Cale on the new track, which will be released on Monday (10.11.25) and included on the soundtrack to Emerald Fennell’s upcoming erotic movie that will star Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.
Charli revealed that she was “immediately” inspired to begin making music for the picture after being immersed in the success of last year’s hit record Brat.
She wrote on social media: “After being so in the depths of my previous album, I was excited to escape into something entirely new, entirely opposite.
“When I think of Wuthering Heights, I think of many things. I think of passion and pain. I think of England. I think of the Moors, I think of the mud and the cold. I think of determination and grit.”
Charli described herself a “huge fan” of The Velvet Underground and recalled Cale’s quoted in the band’s documentary that “any song has to be both elegant and brutal”.
The Apple hitmaker wrote: “I got really stuck on that phrase. I wrote it down in my notes app and would pull it up from time to time and think about what he meant.
“That voice, so elegant, so brutal. I sent him some songs, and we started talking specifically about House. We spoke about the idea of a poem. He recorded something and sent it to me. Something that only John could do. And it was… well, it made me cry.
“I feel so lucky to have been able to work with John on this song. I’ve been so excited to share it with you all, sitting quietly in anticipation.”
Charli’s Brat album was phenomenally successful – winning a slew of Grammy and BRIT Awards and entering the public consciousness with the Brat Summer trend – but she feared it would get her “dropped” from her record label.
Speaking to Gwyneth Paltrow on her Goop podcast, she said: “I actually made this record being like, ‘OK, I’m just going to do this one for me. Maybe I’m going to get dropped by my label and that’s fine.’ That was kind of the headspace that I was in.”