““I never let anybody in,” Clairo sings on the nervy indie-pop of ‘North’. It’s a line that feels more than a little ironic coming from the 20-year-old Claire Cottrill. While she might have her guard up in her personal life, she’s also an artist who has gained a small army of followers for sharing the intimate details of her life with them. ‘Immunity’, her debut album, is the most open the door in”
“On her debut album, the young viral star moves beyond the lo-fi bedroom-pop of her early recordings and into a restrained, detailed style of songwriting all her own.”
“Clairo—aka 20-year-old Claire Cottrill—has been through a lot already. The 2017 video for her lo-fi track “Pretty Girl” which she made on MacBook’s Photobooth, reached over 36 million views on YouTube. When she released the video, she was just a freshman at Syracuse University, and she already had record labels fighting to sign her. After signing with Fader, social media users were quick to pelt ”
“Claire Cottrill (known professionally as Clairo) rose swiftly in 2017 on the strength of her disarmingly simple "Pretty Girl," which gained immense popularity on YouTube. Seized upon by the online bedroom-pop scene as a rising star, she was soon disavowed once its gatekeepers learned her debut EP (the promising Diary 001) was released on Fader Label, a company to which her well-connected father ha”
“Virality’s a fickle mistress, as Massachusetts singer-songwriter Claire Cottrill discovered last year. A viral hit recorded in her bedroom – Pretty Girl – sent her soaring on YouTube’s algorithm, but the crash came soon after. Cottrill’s father is a marketing executive; her record deal was secured through his contacts. And so, whispers began bubbling up from the cesspit depths of Reddit that she w”
“Immunity is at its best when Clairo manages to find power in simplicity and subtlety, which happens only some of the time.”
