Dancing the hour away at Charli XCXs Boiler Room set.

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This article was originally published on February 23, 2024.

Were recirculating it now with the release ofCharli XCXsBrat.

Im not getting in, someone with pink hair shouts.

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Im on the list, but … A discussion unfolds about whether everybody who has a ticket is VIP (they arent).

The now-L.A.-based DJ Ty Sunderlandwonderedif it would be crazy to fly cross-country for 24 hours just to attend.

The frenzy is notable for Charli, who has made a career out of being an acquired taste.

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The crowd is a Wheres Waldo of the gay famous.

Hes wearing his trademark black-and-white hat with a vintage Hilary Duff tee.

I had to remind the Bushwick girls that I amtheBushwick girl.

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(Later that night, Ty tweets that he is at the Bushwick met gala).

Alex notes that almost everybody looks 25 to 35 and queer or gender fluid.

There are no normies, he says.

Nobodys in a polo.

At 10:07, the guest of the hour makes her way to the DJ booth, entourage in tow.

Charli also performs unreleased songs, including Get Into It (Spring Breakers).

A boy double-fists phones, one recording the set, the other broadcasting on Instagram Live.

Multiple people are FaceTiming friends who couldnt get in.

And then, the show everybody was so desperate to get into is … over?

The lights come on and the audience looks as if it just woke up.

It cant beover, someone in a mullet says to their friend.

The bartenders say no, Tej tells me.

But the people with the mops say it is.

Slowly, fans come to terms with how the night has to continue elsewhere.

There was a point when all I could smell were poppers, she tells her friend.

But not everyone seems annoyed by the early end time.

Its not even midnight.

Thats so amazing, says someone leaving the venue in a babushka.

The next day, I see aviral TikTok of Vroom Vroomfilmed from outside the club.

One of the commenters notes, It looks like they are creating their own weather in there.

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