This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, listening recommendations and more. While nothing on Charli's album reaches the great Kate's ...

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Charli xcx's original soundtrack serves as a kind of secondary narrator for Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Wuthering Heights. The film arrives in a landscape where the fan cultures of pop music and ...