Charli XCX - After The Afterparty feat. Lil Yachty

What this video is

Released October 28–30, 2016, 'After the Afterparty' arrived as the intended lead single from Charli XCX's scrapped third album, 'XCX World,' released via Asylum Records and Atlantic Records UK. The track was produced by SOPHIE, the late avant-garde electronic musician and PC Music affiliate, continuing the experimental collaboration begun on Charli's 'Vroom Vroom' EP. The video's zombie-party Halloween aesthetic…

Why it matters

A pivotal 2016 document of the PC Music / SOPHIE-produced experimental pop movement entering the major-label mainstream, and an early cross-genre bridge between UK art-pop and SoundCloud-era rap via Lil Yachty. The video aestheticizes the 'party forever' nihilism central to Charli's XCX World era,…

The director

Diane Martel (May 7, 1962 – September 18, 2025) was a Brooklyn-born music video director whose career spanned over three decades. A high school dropout, she began as a street artist and choreographer before directing her first video, Onyx's 'Throw Ya Gunz,'…