![]() “We knew it was a thing, and we ran with it.” They still had the Remi Wolf vibe but were “a lot more raw, and indie rock-influenced”, because that was what was going on at her school.Īround the same time, though, she reunited with Jared Soloman, and they immediately started writing songs together that felt a lot more like Remi. “None of those songs are out, and I don’t think any of them will ever see the light of day,” she says. “By the time I was 22, I figured out what I wanted to do with my solo thing.” So she took her songs, formed a band and was soon gigging around Los Angeles. “I didn’t know if I was going to be in a band, work as a songwriter for other people or whatever.” Still, she kept writing songs and eventually found her voice. “I always felt like I wanted to do my own thing,” says Remi, before admitting that she didn’t really know what that would look like. Teenage bands followed (including one with current producer Jared Soloman), as did an audition for the 13th season of American Idol while she was enrolled in LA’s USC Thornton School of Music. Spurred on by the positive response, Remi would write more, perform more, and there was no looking back. A track called ‘Carousel’, she and her friend Chloe would perform it at open mic nights. I’m just trying to be myself as much as I can.”Īt age eight, Remi Wolf started training to be a competitive skier, eventually competing in two youth Olympic games, but aged 15, she wrote her first song. Hopefully, they like my energy and can feed off of it. ![]() “So far, I’ve been getting a lot of great responses, and I think it’s good. It can be a lot of pressure, and I really hope they like the album,” she continues before changing pace. “It’s crazy I have fans even waiting for songs,” she starts. She found herself on a lot of people’s playlists thanks to ‘Photo I.D.’ and its Dominic Fike-featuring remix, but that spotlight soon found people vibing with ‘Disco Man’, ‘Woo!’ and ‘Cheesin”, proving there was more to Remi than her 15 viral minutes of fame. There’s a palpable excitement around Remi’s debut. “A lot of the songs ended up sounding psychotic, but I love it” Remi Wolf Instead, it exists in a club all of its own. Songs about depression, sobriety, family, friends and self-reflection share the same dancefloor as she delivers a soundtrack that doesn’t waste time ripping up the pop rulebook. True to form, Remi’s debut album is just as wonderfully muddled. “Sometimes I feel like a freak but so does everyone. ![]() Kurt Cobain was a pop star, but I’m no Cobain either.”Īnd while ‘Volkiano’, a folk drum and bass track from ‘Juno’, sees her call herself a freak, it isn’t a label that lingered beyond that song. But then, I don’t really know what a pop star is. If we’re talking conventional pop stars like Madonna, Cher, then no. She’s just as frank when asked if she considers herself a pop star. For some reason, I decided to continue that joke through the second EP and then I happened to get a dog. ‘You’re A Dog!’ was just an inside joke I had with my friends that would take far too long to explain. “I just wanted to dedicate the album to my dog. “You’re reading way too much into it, dude,” she grins as we put our whiteboard away. Is that title her way of telling fans she’s moving beyond self-destruction and finally embracing the things that are good for her? It’s named after Remi’s own pet, an adorable French bulldog that sat with her in the studio as “an emotional support dog” while she wrote eleven of the record’s thirteen tracks (the other two are older). In fact, the only thing Remi didn’t dabble in was dullness.ĭebut album ‘Juno’ is just as electrifying. Remi Wolf’s 2019 debut EP, ‘You’re A Dog!’ was a giddy, kaleidoscopic blitz of young love, messy nights out and newfound freedoms, while 2020’s ‘I’m Allergic To Dogs!’ was just as turbulent, all sticky floors and smeared lipstick delivered over a rotating guest list of disco, jazz, funk, rock, indie and pop from across years. Set design assistants: Cameron Nawaz and Mike Teeps. Photography and set design: Haley Appell. Remi Wolf may not consider herself strictly ‘a pop star’, but with one of the biggest, most fun records of the year so far, we certainly do.
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