Kylo Nocom: Warm and fuzzy dance beats cut squarely into the heart of Clairo’s crushing, and every beautiful musical moment passes by like thoughts running through your head minutes before you’re kicked out of the school dance’s venue. Sofia feels like an ode to those hard-to-deny, more than a crush-es we find in our queer friendships, and the calculation of whether the risk is worth the reward.Īlfred Soto: If “Sofia” occasionally settles for lethargy, the force of the drums punctuates and pins down Clairo’s admissions I especially dug the line about loving her lover’s hair down. Beneath romantic longing is a pivotal safeness, warm and familiar enough to risk pinning our romantic hopes to. The tentativeness with which we approach queer relationships is marked by a fear that we lose more than a partner when romance fails: we risk the connection that underscores every other iteration of the relationship. Felix’s review of Euphoria for the New Yorker, she mentioned the girl/girl romance shown there epitomizes “the electric stirrings we felt as young girls, reading best-friend adventures that we so desperately wished would rise into romance.” If I was to cinematically portray Sofia and Claire’s affection for her, it would surely blossom from an intense high school friendship into one halve’s yearning for more. Nellie Gayle: Maybe it’s because I’m still constantly thinking about/tweeting about Euphoria season 1, but this Clairo song feels like a very good summation of the teen queer romance depicted in the show. Katherine St Asaph: This song is so solid that not even being called a misogynist by fucking Rostam ( but the culture’s not ready for that conversation) has ruined it for me. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment.I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES.Email (song suggestions/writer enquiries).I'm not the first person that should have a platform when it comes to talking about sexuality, but I'm here to recognize all of the people that go through really terrible things every day just to be able to express that about themselves way more than I do. It's important that I recognise how lucky I am to be able to be so open about something like that. At the end of the day it's something that I'm really proud of and I'm really happy that I can look at the world that way-that I can find beauty in women, that I can express that, that I'm able to express that, that I'm privileged enough to talk about it in an interview. Especially being a song about my sexuality, it was important to me that 'Sofia' was celebratory because it should be celebrated. Life is a constant up and down of happy and sad moments, and the peaks and valleys can happen in songs as well. You can't listen to this album and not understand that there's an end to all things bad. It's really important because there are so many sad songs that have no hope in sight and I just wanted to give the world songs that went there emotionally but came back more glass-half-full than empty. When talking about serious things like sexuality, or insecurities, or mental health, it's important that you have a light at the end of the song/tunnel. She told Coup de Main, "I think it was super important that 'Sofia' was empowering because a common theme on this record was to take personal experiences that may or may not have a negative connotation and find the silver lining and find ways to uplift the listener. but if you tried, you could have it (re: a relationship w/ a woman)." know that you and i shouldn't feel like a crime' knowing what you want but feeling scared to reach out for it. the actual explanation of the song is pretty minimal- it just captures a moment in my life but instead of hiding it, it's expressed in an almost 'explosive' manner. this was my way of making a celebratory song about this discovery while maintaining the cheesy/corny lyrics you'd normally find in songs where you profess your love. people like sofia coppola, sofia vergara, etc. Over Twitter, Clairo explained, "'sofia' is about my first ever crushes on women i saw in the media.
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