Talk Talk (Charli XCX song)

"Talk Talk" is a song by British singer Charli XCX, which appears as the fifth track on her sixth studio album Brat. A remix of the song featuring Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan was released on 12 September 2024 as a single from Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat, the remix album of Brat. The track, which is the third collaboration between Charli XCX and Sivan, also features uncredited spoken word from English singer Dua Lipa, who speaks French and Spanish during the intro and outro.

"Talk Talk"
Single by Charli XCX featuring Troye Sivan
from the album Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat
Released	12 September 2024 (2024-09-12)
Genre	House-pop Eurodance
Length	2:53
Label	Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	Charlotte Aitchison Alexander Cook Ross Birchard Troye Mellet Brett McLaughlin Kaelyn Behr Kevin Hickey
Producer(s)	A. G. Cook Hudson Mohawke Zhone Novodor Styalz Fuego
Charli XCX singles chronology
"Apple" (2024) "Talk Talk" (2024)
Troye Sivan singles chronology
"Honey" (2024) "Talk Talk" (2024)

Original version and background

The original iteration of "Talk Talk", which appeared as an album track on Brat, was written by Charli XCX and producers A. G. Cook and Hudson Mohawke, and was released alongside the rest of the album by Atlantic Records on 7 June 2024. Discussing the song in a video posted to her TikTok, Charli stated that the song was inspired by her early courtship with her fiancé, The 1975 drummer George Daniel, and how they "were not together, but [they] were definitely, like, very into each other".

A "Talk Talk" remix with Sivan was teased by both artists on social media prior to the official announcement, with Charli XCX posting a video to Twitter featuring her and Sivan dancing and lip-syncing to the new version of the song. Dua Lipa's involvement was also teased when Charli shared a voice note from Lipa on her private Instagram account, and the song's producers tagged Lipa and Sivan on their stories. Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat, the remix album of Brat, was announced on 12 September 2024 alongside the release of "Talk Talk" with Sivan. The song is the third collaboration between the two artists following "1999" and "2099", both from Charli XCX's self-titled third studio album Charli, and its release coincided with the beginning of their co-headlining Sweat Tour which began a few days later on 14 September, where it was performed as the concert's encore. "Talk Talk" is the fifth remixed song to be released from Brat following 360 with Robyn and Yung Lean, "Von Dutch" with Addison Rae, "Girl, So Confusing" with Lorde, and "Guess" with Billie Eilish.

Reception

In a mixed appraisal of the song, Tom Breihan of Stereogum stated that the remix is a "complete reworking of the original track that barely sounds anything like the original". Referring to the song as a "slamming house banger", he remarked on how the remix lacks the "incandescent hook" of the original version but does feature "some murmured French and Spanish Dua Lipa vocals on the intro". Breihan criticized the newer version of the song, expressing that "it's got none of the nervous vulnerability of the original Talk Talk. Instead this one is just about being really excited to fuck".

Charts

Chart performance for "Talk Talk"

Chart (2024)	Peak position
Ireland (IRMA)	62
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ)	6
UK Singles (OCC)	47
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)	3
US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (Billboard)	5

Chart performance for "Talk Talk" (featuring Troye Sivan)

Chart (2024)	Peak position
South Korea BGM (Circle)	197