Bummer Summer! Why do the top pop girlies sound so morose this season?

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — It’s nearly summertime, and we’re all doomed. So says Charli XCX, who’s abandoned the party in her new music and trained her gaze instead on death and destruction: “The world is gonna end, no hope for any of it,” she sings in “Spring Summer ‘26,” her latest single. Charli