Charli XCX has shared the primary of what’s going to apparently be many unique songs for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming Wuthering Heights film. “Home” is a collaboration with composer and Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale. The accompanying video was directed by Mitch Ryan, who additionally helmed Charli XCX’s belated “Party 4 U” clip earlier this yr. Watch it beneath.
“A number of years in the past I watched Todd Haynes’ documentary about The Velvet Underground,” Charli XCX wrote in a word posted to X final week. “As a lot of you already know I’m an enormous fan of the band and was actually taken by the documentary. One factor that caught with me was how John Cale described a key sonic requirement of The Velvet Underground. That any tune needed to be each ‘elegant and brutal.’”
She continued, “When the summer season ended I used to be nonetheless ruminating on John’s phrases. So I made a decision to succeed in out to him to get his opinion on the songs that his phrase had so deeply impressed, but additionally to see whether or not he would possibly wish to collaborate on any…I despatched him some songs and we began speaking particularly about ‘Home.’ We spoke in regards to the thought of a poem. He recorded one thing and despatched it to me. One thing that solely John may do. And it was… effectively, it made me cry.” Scroll right down to learn the entire thing.
Since releasing her album Brat final yr, Charli XCX has turn out to be concerned in a number of different film projects. She additionally pulled double responsibility as host and musical visitor on an episode of Saturday Night Live. John Cale shared his final studio album, Poptical Illusion, in 2024 as effectively.
Wuthering Heights hits theaters on Saturday, February 14, 2026. Fennell’s adaptation of the famed Emily Brontë novel stars Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff. The film is scored by Anthony Willis, who additionally scored Fennell’s first two options, 2020’s Promising Younger Girl and 2023’s Saltburn.
Revisit Quinn Moreland’s overview “Todd Haynes’ Velvet Underground Documentary Breathes New Life Into a Beloved Band.”
