Clairo - Alewife

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

Music

4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Claire Cotrill is a singer, songwriter, and producer who goes by the name Clairo. She started releasing music in 2014 as a teenager. A few years later, songs she had uploaded to YouTube had racked up over 40 million views. This year, Clairo put out her debut album, Immunity. She’s recently performed on Ellen and Jimmy Kimmel, and played arenas, opening for Khalid. In this episode, Clairo breaks down her song “Alewife.” I spoke to Claire and her co-producer Rostam Batmanglij about how the song was made.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece,
0:06.0	tell the story of how they were made.
0:08.6	My name is Rishi Keish, your wife.
0:14.2	Before we begin, there are a couple things I wanted to mention about the episode you're
0:17.0	about to hear.
0:18.0	First of all, if you have an Amazon Echo Smart Speaker, you might want to disable it or
0:22.1	turn it off for something because you're going to hear the name Alexa in this episode
0:25.4	a few times.
0:26.4	And if your speaker is in ear shot, it's probably going to do a whole thing.
0:30.0	Secondly, on a serious note, this episode deals in part with thoughts of suicide.
0:34.6	So please be careful and be mindful.
0:37.2	Also, if you're having thoughts of suicide yourself, confidential help is available for
0:41.3	free.
0:42.3	You can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK.
0:47.4	That's 800-273-TALK.
0:50.5	You can also text the Crisis Text Line, just text the word hello to 741-741.
0:57.5	You are not alone.
0:58.5	I'll put a link up to these resources on the Song Exploder website.
1:02.4	If you want to join me in making a donation to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention,
1:06.9	you can find the info on the website as well.
1:08.7	I'll mention it again at the end of this episode.
1:11.3	Alright, here we go.
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