![]() Led by airy guitar-pop confessions “Bags” and “Sofia,” the album preserves her homespun charm while upping the indie-rock fuzz, soulful grooves, and throbbing electro beats. Soon after “Pretty Girl” and songs like the woozy, synth-soaked meditation “Flaming Hot Cheetos” started racking up streams, Clairo teamed up with former Vampire Weekend star Rostam, who co-produced her 2019 full-length debut, Immunity. By age 13, she was recording and performing covers, and eventually started playing DIY college shows near her parents’ home outside Boston. As far as the sound itself, the artist, born Claire Cottrill in 1998, was exposed to a wide range of musical influences as a kid-Al Green from her dad and Cocteau Twins from her mom. To Clairo, who was eventually named an Up Next artist by Apple Music, this sort of intimacy and vulnerability is what music is all about: “There’s no point in making a record if it isn’t personal,” she told Apple Music. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.Singer-songwriter Clairo brought viewers straight into her teenage bedroom with the slapdash video for her 2017 lo-fi breakthrough, “Pretty Girl.” The song, built on a simple keyboard riff and drum beat, is tongue-in-cheek but deep in its relationship analysis, while the video shows her in all her greasy-haired, half-awake glory. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. ![]() He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. ![]() ![]() “I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. “Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men.
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