Charli XCX currently has two Top 10 hits on the Hot 100 chart -- "Fancy," Iggy Azalea's inescapable smash, and her own "Boom Clap," which marks her first Top 10 single as a lead artist. Yet the prolific singer-songwriter has already dropped another pop gem on our unsuspecting heads, as "Break the Rules" previews her eagerly anticipated sophomore album, Sucker, due out Oct. 21 via Neon Gold/Atlantic Records.
The song, which premiered on Buzzfeed on Monday (Aug. 18), stacks its energy upon a defiant chorus in which Charli sneers, "I don't wanna go to school/I just wanna break the rules," and then defuses its anger with a snappy synth melody worth locking your bedroom door and dancing around in your underwear to. "Break The Rules" showcases the well-crafted hooks that bursted throughout the singer's debut album, True Romance, but its arrangement is even more streamlined, as the most sugary bits are lovingly accessible.