Lindsey Buckingham is no stranger to rock ‘n’ roll excess, but even he seemed a little taken aback by Charli XCX’s antics in the video for her 2024 single Von Dutch, which he’s just watched for the first time alongside his daughter, Leelee.
In a new reaction video, Leelee begins by asking her father - who admits that he’s not that familiar with Charli XCX, but did see her on SNL - if he had a Brat summer. “The Brattiest,” he replies, with a knowing look.
Then we’re into the video, which begins with Charli strutting through an airport while ripping off her trousers/pants. “Getting kinda saucy already,” remarks Lindsey. “It’s not a good place to get saucy,” he adds, before recoiling slightly when XCX appears to headbutt the camera and draw blood.
“I like it - she’s aggressive, she’s getting aggressive with it,” says Leelee. “Oh yeah she is,” agrees Lindsey.
Later, expressing surprise that Charli was able to writhe around on the wing of a plane, Buckingham senior says: “I can’t believe she got away with all this,” but agrees that the video looked like a fun one to film.
Summing up, Lindsey says: “I thought it was very entertaining… there was so much going on, and all in the context of a normally restrictive environment.”
And what was the message she was sending out?
“Screw you,” reckons Buckingham, and he’s probably not wrong.
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