#Remi wolf turns pop into hypercolored how to#

“I went through this entire career glow-up and then I got sober and also like, made my fucking debut album. “It’s been the most transitional year that I’ll probably ever have,” she nods. Though she interprets her struggles through a lyrical lens that’s seemingly bright and vivacious, beneath the witty wordplay and cheeky checkpoints, there’s a flipside. I think that was the first lyric that popped into my head, and after I said that lyric, we just sent it.” Hence, the ‘eating my ass like human centipede’. I think I was just feeling there was a lot of weird, disgusting stuff going around me socially and I was really pissed about it. I just gave no fucks at all I made a lot of disgusting references in that song. “I think that’s my most balls-to-the-wall song lyrically. Even the aforementioned Two Girls, One Cup nod pulls from a moment closer to home. Inspired by her relationships, the “big throughline” of the album, however, is Remi’s experience with her mental health. I have too much going on that I need to get out!” I know a lot of people sometimes will write from other views, but that’s not my vibe. It’s obviously something I’ve been crafting for a while now I’m always writing from a personal experience. “I think I’ve had a pretty distinct writing style since the beginning. “I’ve always pretty much said exactly what I want and how I feel,” Remi says. From Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie references on ‘Sexy Villain’, to an “orgy at Five Guys with five guys” in ‘Quiet On Set’, back to shouting out Red Hot Chili Peppers’ frontman Anthony Kiedis on the aptly-titled ‘Anthony Kiedis’, you really never know what could be around the corner.

#Remi wolf turns pop into hypercolored how to#

Learning how to push the limits of her songwriting, the results led to the “pretty fucking crazy” tracks that decorate self-released 2019 EP ‘You’re A Dog!’, its 2020 follow-up ‘I’m Allergic To Dogs!’, and her highly-anticipated debut full-length ‘Juno’, which lands this month.Ī kaleidoscopic pop offering, ‘Juno’ dazzles from start to finish, with so many lyrics designed to stop you in your tracks that it could give you whiplash. I had a very limited idea of what the fuck was going on when I went into college, but I came out of it like my world had just been so broken open.”Īnd it’s these early, all-consuming forays that helped Remi hone the lyrically-wild funk-pop sound that’s now become her trademark. And we were just jamming for like, six hours a day in our living room! I think that, as much as we were kind of just like fucking degenerates, I also learned a lot through that house and I found that it just really expanded my mind. “I was meeting people through all these parties we were having, and I was writing songs with all my roommates all the time.

“We were non-stop partying for three years, but also non-stop writing music and hosting shows,” she recalls. Residing in a “bit of a trap house” with 11 other people studying alongside her, she would spend her days surrounded by people living and breathing music for the first time.

It was upon heading to LA’s USC Thornton School of Music in 2014, however, that Remi’s journey to the fully-fledged technicolour pop star we see before us today truly began.

Before that it was pretty much just our parents being like, ‘Good job, girls!’” And I was like, holy shit, this is a career! That’s where it kind of clicked for me that maybe people liked my voice and what we were doing. We made, like, $180, which at the time was unfathomable. “We were performing on a street corner at this art fair and were out there for two hours. “We would busk on the street, and I think that was the moment where I really started to think that I could do it as a career,” Remi recalls. Raised in California, Remi first got the music bug after she created a pre-teen girl group called Citrus with two of her friends, which went onto become a slightly more serious (and less fruit based) production during high school. But then, it’s also not too often that you find a pop star like Remi Wolf. It’s not too often that you find a pop song that simultaneously references the infamous Two Girls, One Cup video, horror nightmare The Human Centipede and Chuck E Cheese within the first minute.