Ahead of CharliIt is Saturday Night LivDuring his debut this weekend, the singer joked with an actor Marcello Hernández in a new promo.

At one point in the video, Hernández wants to know where his outfit ranks on the “brat” scale. “Hello, my name is Charli XCX and I will be the host and musical guest this week on SNL“, Charli said first before Hernández asked: “Charli, do you like my outfit? Is it a kid?

“There’s a fine line between a kid and a brong,” she replies. Hernández adds: “Oh, whose side am I on? »

“It’s up to the nation to decide,” Charli says with a smile.

The promo references the “Brat Summer” phenomenon that took over the internet earlier this year following the release of the pop star’s film. sixth studio album kid in June. As for what “kid” means, the singer previously explained it in a TikTok clip“You’re like that girl who’s a little messy and likes to party and maybe says stupid things sometimes. Who feels good but who may also be broken down. But somehow, the celebrations through that, it’s very honest, very direct. A little volatile. He does stupid things. But he’s a kid. You’re a kid. He’s a bad kid.

It wasn’t the first time either SNL mentioned the phenomenon of “brats”. Earlier in the sketch series’ 50th season, actor Bowen Yang cosplayed the ‘360’ singer for a sketch featuring a fake talk show called The Talk Talk Show with Charli XCX.

After the show, Charli praised Yang’s impression of her, telling Howard Stern on his SiriusXM channel, “I love Bowen and I honestly think he did a great job.” I was actually very impressed with the texture of the hair. I thought it was a very good wig. It was good. It was cool.

Although this will be Charli’s first time hosting SNLshe was previously the musical guest in 2014 and 2022.