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“It was my place that I almost hid,” she says of her life online during high school. Sharing so much of herself with strangers took some getting used to but it helped that the internet was like a little home for her before she gained any recognition. “I could never write a record that wasn’t about something I’d experienced,” she shrugs. People had initially connected with her music and propelled her to this position in the first place because of how unguarded she was, and locking away that side of her would only weaken the music she was making. Soon the then-teenager realised there was still a positive side to having her life so out in the open and the vulnerability she felt because of that. Their conclusion was that this buzzy newcomer was an “industry plant” whose viral success was a front for a savvy plan cooked up by her father, because young women achieving anything – in music and beyond – is still something that arouses suspicion and sends people scurrying to find a male figure to credit as the secret mastermind behind their achievements. When someone discovered her dad was a marketing executive with ties to the music industry, inhabitants of the less forgiving corners of the web put two and two together and came up with five. I felt like they already saw what they needed to see in order to have an opinion, I guess, and I think I was just so pissed off that everyone had to have an opinion about me.”Ĭottrill had found herself in the uncomfortable position of having strangers online trying to dig up any information they could about her and her family. “I closed myself off for a little bit because I didn’t want to let anyone else know more about me. She shakes the puppy-enamoured grin from her face as they move on and picks up her train of thought. Her eyes wander to her left, her reflections distracted by the arrival of security dogs conducting a pre-show sweep of Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena. “It was one of the toughest things I’ve ever been through, but one of the best things as well,” she says now of the attention that moment brought her and how it forced her to grow up in public over the last two years. It was goofy, a little awkward, and quickly became a viral success. In the webcam-recorded clip, she sat in her bedroom, last night’s make-up still slightly visible on her face, pulling the kind of moves that are almost exclusively pulled in bedrooms alone. Cottrill was catapulted from the life of an ordinary Massachusetts teenager to internet sensation in August 2017, when she uploaded a video to YouTube for her track ‘Pretty Girl’ – a languid, lo-fi pop song about trying to be perfect for a partner, even if that means not being true to yourself. So far, this new crop of stars have made being unwittingly thrust into the limelight look effortless. And then there’s Clairo – aka 20-year-old Claire Cottrill – whose quiet, deeply personal pop feels like she’s whispering secrets in your ear, even as she sings them from arena stages. The alternative sphere is packed with bright young things proudly carving out their own niches, like King Princess, Soccer Mommy, Cuco and Omar Apollo.

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“I talked to about it the other day, and she told me I’m having my gay sob right now, where I’m just letting all my emotions out and finally crying from that experience when I was 12 years old,” she said, referring to her struggle at a young age with her sexuality.Ĭheck out Clairo’s full interview with Out here.The kids have taken over. More recently, Clario said that queer pop star King Princess shared some words of encouragement with her backstage at Coachella, saying that she was at another important stage in her coming out. “That the things that they’re feeling, whether it’s confusion or if they’re gay or straight, whatever, it’s okay.” “There’s so many young girls that listen to my music that are probably going through the same thing and need someone that they look up to or listen to to tell them that it’s okay,” she said.

In the interview, Clairo said it’s been a long process for her to determine how her sexuality works but added that questioning is one of the most important parts of the coming-out process. SG Lewis Teams Up with Clairo for Dreamy 'Throwaway': Listen

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