Vroom Vroom (song)

On 20 October 2015, Charli XCX hosted a radio show on Beats 1 where she previewed "Vroom Vroom" for the first time.^[1][2] The music video for "Vroom Vroom" was released on 22 April 2016^[3] and included cameos by Sophie, A.G. Cook, and Hannah Diamond.^[4]

"Vroom Vroom" received generally positive reviews from music critics. Reviewing the song's preview on Beats 1, James Rettig of Stereogum called it "perfect", writing that he had been listening to a bootleg live recording of the song prior to its official debut. He additionally praised Sophie's production on the track, calling it "top-notch" and rivaling her then-short career.^[5] PopCrush's Christopher Tirri called the song's beat drop "strange (in the best way possible)", lauding how its sound effects are "all strung together with a club-ready, elastic bass line that makes the onomatopoeias actually sound appealing instead of just silly."^[6] Writing for Tiny Mix Tapes, S. David lauded it as "a near-masterpiece", calling the track "a post-'Material Girl' hymn to independence, financial or otherwise: a desire for personal freedom".^[7]

Calling it one of Sophie's most essential tracks, Jared Richards of Junkee wrote: "Frenzied, aggressive, and utterly hedonistic, title track 'Vroom Vroom' takes you along for a ride, shifting gears repeatedly but never stalling. There’s a lot going on here — so many bridges, buildups, breakdowns for a three-minute track — and it demands you jump around and get ridiculous."^[8] In a ranking for the same publication, Jackson Langford named "Vroom Vroom" Charli XCX's best song, opining that "[w]hile Charli will never stop growing, 'Vroom Vroom' will always be the song that made her one of the most buzzed-about artists of the decade, so we can either hop in or eat her purple, glittery dust."^[9]

In an infamous review for Pitchfork, Laura Snapes wrote that the song "sounds like a rickety clown car whose horn toots Missy [Elliott]'s 'The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)'—a blocky, disjointed paean to fast rides and good times."^[10][11] Snapes later stated that she regretted her review of the EP, as seeing Charli XCX perform live in 2019 made her "appreciate" the qualities she formerly criticized.^[11] In October 2025, "Vroom Vroom" was listed by Rolling Stone as one of the "250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far".^[12]