Mango

3y

She's got a listenership half the size of Big Sean's. Feel free to not talk about her so much.

v12

3y

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

Everest

3y

Is Clair bears a thing? I said that as a joke in a fandom name thread and now I’m thinking that I started that

v12

3y

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

reallyfreakincute

3y

big knock iont even no who da f*** dat is big bra... i heard n seen dat name but i just googled n ohh its ol girl... the way her s*** setup look like she prob got label backin n they did dat quarky oh im jus recordin from my room... iont get the plant thing mfs act like 99%of music aint been from a label da f*** goin on out here... clairo cool especially if she an industry plant

XenoMorph

3y

op is a clairo c*** rider confirmed

knockknockwhoitis

3y

that's disgusting. why would someone ride a c***

iCarly Japan

3y

op is giving us clairo fans a bad rep sheesh

GAYFORSALEM

3y

Why wouldn’t they 😩

Nozuka

3y

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.

peduxe

3y

this guy would probably kidnap Clairo. I'm not joking

peduxe

3y

this guy would probably kidnap Clairo. I'm not joking