It seems straightforward, but it taps into something bigger that bothers Wolf about the music industry. “I’m very, very involved in how the songs are actually built out,” she says.“If you are a writer, if you are an artist in the room helping the creation of the song, you are a producer.” Her brief time in the talent show, as well as a formal education at the USC Thornton School of Music, gave her concrete tools to take control of her career as a performer and a producer. She made it through to become one of the top 150 performers, where everyone wanted to be – and was convinced they were – the next big thing.
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It didn’t last long: she ended up auditioning for the 2014 series of American Idol on the recommendation of a vocal coach. She gave the pursuit up after a decade, instead yearning for a more grounded way of living. “Skiing prepared me for this hustle, and the way I dedicated my life to that is similar to the way I dedicate my life to my art and career,” she says. She started skiing competitively aged eight, and went on to represent the US in alpine skiing at the Youth Olympic Games for two years in a row, finishing both times in the top 50.
Wolf’s eyes are wide and hungry it’s hard to imagine a time when she hasn’t been ready for any of this.īorn and raised in Palo Alto, California, Wolf learned about throwing herself into her passions from a young age. “I’m fucking ready for this album to come out,” she tells NME in the middle of the million questions we begin to ask about the million facets of her life. That song helped establish Remi’s ear-blistering sound where distorted guitars, unpredictable beats and half-rap, half-sung vocals writhe against each other, while laidback ADHD anthem ‘Woo!’ and fuckboy send-up ‘Disco Man’, offer further examples of perfectly packaged pop anthems that ought to pack lyrical warning signs. 2019’s silky six-track debut EP ‘You’re A Dog!’ was followed by the breezy standout single ‘Photo ID’ a year later its viral moment boosted by a remix with Gen Z sensation Dominic Fike. The 25-year-old’s rise didn’t come completely out of nowhere, though – it’s the product of hard work and smart collaborations. It could, therefore, only be written by someone like Remi Wolf. It could only be written by someone who has known the immense pressure of being an Olympic athlete as a child an American Idol contestant as a teen an overnight online superstar during a period when the world stopped believing they existed anymore. ‘Juno’, named after her newly adopted French bulldog who sat in on every writing session, is a kaleidoscopic record about depression, alienation and addiction it sounds like the most euphoric night out all the while keeping an eye on the impending despair heading your way in the morning. My career was taking off, I had recently gotten sober, I just got a dog and I moved three times during the pandemic,” she says.
“I’ve always been pretty adventurous in my writing,” she tells NME over Zoom from her living room, “but in the songs I wrote during the pandemic there’s definitely a little more mania. “I was pretty fucking manic and confused,” Wolf calmly says as she sips her morning coffee from her home in Los Angeles, California, looking back on the tumultuous stretch during which she wrote her upcoming, transgressive debut record, ‘Juno’. That was just the beginning: she took control of her vices and turned that energy into the blistering record that became ‘Juno’. The very next day, over lunch with her parents, she realised she had a drinking problem, asked for help and checked herself into rehab. Those celebrations sounded off with metaphorical sirens Wolf realised that the previous few months of drinking during lockdown, and years of substance abuse before that, had reached a breaking point and that she needed to do something about it. Having completed two of the songs for her upcoming debut album – and had an unexpected breakout moment amidst the pandemic – she celebrated the end of a first post-lockdown gig at a wild drive-in show in Los Angeles last June. Just over a year ago, the foundations of Remi Wolf’s world shifted.
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