Watch Lindsey Buckingham react to Charli XCX’s “kinda saucy” ‘Von Dutch’ video

Lindsey Buckingham has shared a new video on YouTube, reacting to watching Charli XCX’s ‘Von Dutch’ music video for the first time.

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The rock icon and Fleetwood Mac singer-guitarist posted the video on his official YouTube channel last night (May 14), showing him sat with his daughter Leelee and sharing his response to the hit song from Charli XCX’s ‘Brat’ album.

Before the two began playing the official music video – which shows the pop star wreaking havoc at an airport – Leelee began by making a nod to the 2024 phenomenon, asking her 74-year-old father if he had a ‘Brat summer’, to which he responded “The brattiest!”.

As the footage began, the Fleetwood Mac icon joked that the video was “getting kinda saucy already” as Charli ripped off her trousers in the airport. He then joked about the choice of location, saying “It’s not a good place to get saucy”.

For the most part, Buckingham sat there and looked pretty captivated by the song, being caught off guard when the pop star gets blood on the camera lens and spits on it.

“I’m surprised the airport let her do all this stuff,” he added, before sharing his final thoughts at the end.

“I thought it was very entertaining. I mean there was so much going on, and all in the context of a normal restrictive environment,” he summarised before Leelee asked him what he thought Charli XCX was trying to get across in the song. “She’s saying, ‘Screw you!’” he responded. Check it out above.

As highlighted by Consequence, the “react” video from Lindsey Buckingham is part of a relatively new series he is introducing on his YouTube channel. At time of writing, there is just one other similar video on his page – one where he and Leelee look back at the video for his own 1984 song ‘Slow Dancing’. Check out that one below.

In other Lindsey Buckingham news, the musician was photographed “back together” in the studio with his ex-Fleetwood Mac colleague Mick Fleetwood earlier this year.

Buckingham was fired from the band in 2018 after four decades in somewhat acrimonious circumstances due to a disagreement over a tour. He was replaced by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell and Crowded House’s Neil Finn. Last year, he said that he would rejoin the band “in a heartbeat”, although their future remains uncertain since the death of longtime member Christine McVie in 2022.

As for Charli XCX, ‘Brat’ was named Album of the Year by NME, and awarded a four-star review that read: “It all paints a picture of who XCX is in 2024. Growing pains, grief and aching doubts come alongside self-confidence, celebration and the knowledge of the place XCX holds in the musical landscape.”

The subsequent remix album, ‘Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat‘, received five stars from NME, with Aneesa Ahmed writing: “In some ways, ‘Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat’ is a home run for its creator, letting her finish the game on her own terms.”

The singer has since said that she is having a hard time letting go of the ‘Brat‘ era, and is contemplating keeping it going into 2025.

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