Charli XCX reacts to Bowen Yang’s impression of her on ‘SNL’

“Speak Speak” singer Charli XCX is speak speaking about Bowen Yang‘s “Speak Speak” sketch parodying her on Saturday Night time Stay.

On a latest episode of The Howard Stern Present, the radio host requested the singer if she noticed the sketch from Sept. 28’s episode “as a praise or had been you simply ticked off about it?” “Oh no, no, no, I feel SNL is iconic, and Troye [Sivan] and I, we had an inkling it was coming,” Charli responded, maybe hinting at being briefed forward of time by Yang, with whom she’s associates. “We had been very enthusiastic about it, and I really like Bowen, and actually I feel he did an amazing job. I used to be very impressed with the hair texture really, I assumed it was a very good wig. Yeah, it was good. It was cool,” she mentioned.

Within the sketch, Yang seems in full Charli drag – free, blown out curls, distressed pleather mini gown, huge black sun shades – to host “The Speak Speak Present with Charli XCX,” a play on the singer’s latest tune “Speak Speak.”

“That is my speak present the place we speak speak about no matter I am on about,” Yang begins. “With me as at all times is Australian dingo twink Troye Sivan.” The digital camera cuts to Sarah Sherman because the pop star in a white tank prime and faux washboard abs spinning information on a DJ rig. Charli and Sivan are presently embarking on a 22-city joint live performance tour often called “Sweat,” and launched a collaborative remix of “Speak Speak,” from Charli’s critically acclaimed 2024 album Brat.

Yang’s XCX runs via segments like “Brat or Nat,” the place varied subjects like “Hunter Biden’s laptop computer” and “Amy Adams in Nightbitch” get the thumbs up or down, and interviews nightlife famous person Susanne Bartsch (Jean Sensible, the episode’s host), CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins (Chloe Fineman), and Home Consultant Jasmine Crockett (Ego Nwodim).

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As Charli, actual identify Charlotte Aitchison, predicted on the Brat single “360,” she has been “so in all places” because the album was launched in June. Permutations of the wildly meme-able album cowl (designed by Brent David Freany) unfold like wildfire, “Brat Summer season” was coined to explain the life-style the album’s 15 bangers gestures towards, remixes with superstars like Billie Eilish and Lorde took over the charts, and the Kamala Harris presidential marketing campaign even used the Brat cowl aesthetic in promotional supplies after Charli posted “Kamala IS brat” on X.

This cycle of popular culture finally discovering its method to the Studio 8H stage was solely a matter in fact.

Sivan was the topic of his personal SNL sketch final Nov., by which a girl (Sherman) experiencing sleep paralysis begins hallucinating a dancing Sivan (host Timothée Chalamet and later, members of the band Boygenius, the episode’s musical friends).

“I’ll always remember that weekend for the remainder of my life,” he instructed The Challenge. “I watched it stay with everybody. I assumed possibly it will be a fast second if I used to be fortunate or one thing. However it’s this full sketch, and it is superior… I simply have to impersonate him now.”

Followers have been crossing their fingers that Charli will probably be named a musical visitor on an upcoming episode of Saturday Night time Stay‘s fiftieth season. Solely the hosts and musical friends of the first 5 episodes have been introduced to date, however there’s nonetheless time for Charli to hitch the likes of Stevie Nicks and her “Guess” remix collaborator Eilish.