Legend

I am not her dad. Geoff is another person. it just makes me upset when people discredit Clairo. I'm not saying I speak for all Claire Bears though

I never said I represent all Claire Bears. but I am speaking as a Claire Bear

she came before the bedroom pop phenomenon so when it came out that she wasn't just a cute girl in her room making music people felt betrayed ig. At least that's how I saw it (I was only 15ish at the time).

Coco and Clair Clair

it’s not sexist to point out a white female artist who steals from smaller artists whilst making trash boring indie shlock benefitted from nepotism. in fact a lot of industry niggas benefited from CIA dads, investment bankers and CEOs. (arca, h.e.r., justine skye, mitski, grimes, king princess, julian cascablancas) if i kept going id be here all day

Captain save a plant

Is Lil Baby a plant?

Keep going we need a comprehensive plant list. Chance and Post Malone

damn you came thru with the 4bidden knowledge

I said “borderline”

obviously people think damn near anyone is a plant now

Every second counts, I don't wanna talk to you anymore...

we gonna talk about how david gilmour got kate bush her first record deal now

CIA?

and no clairo doesnt come close to kb in talent but

Labels just get involved a lot sooner now because of people like XXXTentacion who went from SoundCloud to platinum overnight

It's been a long time since I seen a post this bucketheaded

I will punish myself for defending a white woman online in my own time and in a much worse way than simply changing my avi

It’s one thing to not like her music, which is fine, to each their own. It’s another thing to construct a series of conspiracies so you don’t have to believe a teenage girl can make music. The amount of vitriol being thrown at a teenage girl by grown ass men is frankly insane, especially considering the amount of false information being spread about a completely harmless pop artist.

Let’s break down some of the crazier things tons of people on Reddit are saying...

‘Her parents are heavily connected in the industry and she’s only famous because they’re famous.’

Oh really, who are her parents? Are they house hold names? Wait, no, they’re low level actors with a few bit parts to their name and one low budget movie they made together. The biggest role either of her parents have gotten is voice acting on Mass Effect 2. They’re not record producers, they’re not famous musicians, they’re not elite media types. They’re unknown artists who probably have less clout in the industry than a small town radio DJ. You’re telling me they had enough power to make her music career go off, but not enough to make their own careers go off?

‘Her music and image are formed by her label, she’s made by a committee.’
She co-writes and makes all her music with her brother in his small room in their parents modest, middle class house. Need proof? Here you go. They’re weren’t uber wealthy before her career took off, and they’re not controlled by their label. If anything, they’re more intimate and more authentic than 99% of musicians out there. How many musicians do you know that don’t record in a studio, but in a small bedroom? That’s more DIY than the majority of indie bands. She also has strong creative control over her videos, and even directed one of them. And if the studio is dictating her fashion and style, why does she wear gigantic clothes and chunky sneakers (the same clothes she wore before she was famous)? She very specially avoids sexualizing herself like all female pop artists do (which is also fine).

If your only real argument for her being an industry plant is that her label has promoted the s*** out of her through interviews and music videos, duh genius, that’s what record labels do. That’s their job. Having the full support of her label doesn’t make her a ‘plant.’ They’ve done this with every major artist in history. By this logic The Beatles, The Clash, and Queen are ‘industry plants.’
The irony of people singling in on an artist who co-creates all of her music with her own brother (with no other writers and producers), does it by themselves in a small bedroom, and calling her ‘inauthentic’ is astounding. For years Redditors complained about pop stars with 50 songwriters contributing to each song, and finally a pop star comes along who writes all her music with her brother, and they throw a fit.

What it comes down to is grown men believing a teenage girl is incapable of making authentic music and must be the product of famous parents and a record industry creating her out of thin air. It’s sad, and frankly sexist at this point. When Arctic Monkeys blew up as teenagers and were heavily promoted by their label, no one claimed they were ‘inauthentic’ and an ‘industry plant.’

Dislike her music all you want, just don’t parrot lies and half truths because you can’t believe a teenage girl can create hit music.

EDIT: well this blew up. To everyone saying you don’t like her music, once again, that’s fine. That’s not the point I was making. To everyone saying I’m an industry plant as well, I wish.

most plants get way more push than that no

mitski dad CIA

I would never deny that growing up with money gives you an incredible leg up in everything, including the art world. And even sports

But Diddy’s son has been tryna force a rap career for years. Lots of rich people want their parents to buy them a career. It’s not that simple. They can’t make a “Bags” or a “North” or a “Flaming Hot Cheetos” or an “I Wouldn’t Ask You”