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Originally posted by TIME
I don’t want to go to school / I just want to break the rules,” she sings on the track; it’s a fitting declaration for a singer who’s made a name for herself by defying expectations of what a pop star should be. Mixing the hedonism of “I Love It,” the youthfulness of “Boom Clap” and the raw energy of “SuperLove,” “Break the Rules” is everything fans have come to love about Charli wrapped up in one delicious package.
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Originally posted by Fuse
Charli XCX is no longer the girl guesting on other people's hits, but a full-fledged pop star with a penchant for impossible-to-get-outta-your-head tracks perfect for a dance party.
Exhibit A: "Break The Rules," Charli's latest and a song off Sucker, her forthcoming sophomore release and the follow-up to 2013's True Romance. As we've seen with her cameo on Iggy Azalea's meteoric smash "Fancy," Charli's got pipes and attitude for days, and both come to a glorious head on this rebellious club banger here.
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Originally posted by Consequence of Sound
“Break The Rules” proves Charli XCX’s proclivity for bombastic choruses. The earworm of a track finds Charli breaking down what pop music is all about with a simple premise: “I don’t want to go to school / I just want to break the rules.” It’s pure pop bliss, with a driving bass line and a slippery synth hook.
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Originally posted by Billboard
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.
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Originally posted by Music Times
"Break The Rules" shines is through its anti-2014 pop post-chorus. After XCX declares that she will not, in fact, attend school (and will instead dance away at the discotheque), most songs would go into an explosion of EDM noise, but "Break The Rules" does exactly as its title suggests and goes into a grooving, '90s-style musical break. It works in all the right (and wrong ways) as a defiantly wonderful new pop single, just in time for those back to school Walmart specials.
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Originally posted by SPIN
British songstress Charli XCX returns to her solo work with "Break the Rules," a high-energy pop anthem in the vein of early-day Britney Spears mixed with Yeezus-y howls and fuzzy vocals.
"I don't wanna go to school, I just wanna break the rules," XCX sings on the surefire hit, the lead single from her just announced second album, Sucker (due October 28).
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