Even though Clairo began making her way into the music scene during the summer of 2017, I never really gave her music a listen. Of course, I’d heard “Pretty Girl” and “Flaming Hot Cheetos”, but I thought her music was another copy of what every bedroom artist was releasing—synth and lo-fi beats and shitty recording as part of playing into an aesthetic. The music video for “Flaming Hot Cheetos” wasn’t well-received, either. A friend of mine even mentioned that not even in a creative rut would she produce and create something like the video for “Flaming Hot Cheetos”. I never cared for her music until I heard “Bags”, a single off her new album, Immunity.
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