![]() ![]() “It’s a very transitional album,” Wolf tells me, explaining how all the thoughts, feelings, and inner turmoils that were going on at that time are reflected in the music. At the same time – after recognising that she had a drinking problem – she checked herself into rehab for four months, got sober, and moved back to LA to finish the record. “In the height of COVID lockdown and fear… my career was a career all (of) the sudden,” she wrote on Twitter. In February, she signed her first record deal with Island Records and Virgin EMI Records in April, she released the funky soul-pop banger “Photo ID” which immediately went viral on TikTok and in June, she dropped her second EP I’m Allergic to Dogs and wrote Juno ’s first two tracks. “I didn’t really have the typical sit and stew for two years,” she says instead, the musician dove head-first into her work after a meteoric rise to fame. The original record, Juno, was largely written over the pandemic. “It’s just what was going on in my brain at the time.” “I don’t think there’s a deeper meaning there,” Wolf tells me with a smile, sitting back down in her chair and adjusting her zebra-striped MTV trucker hat. Now, almost one year later on an overcast summer’s day in London, the musician is standing in Vida Bakery in Brick Lane with one leg balanced on the café table to show me the IRL tattoo – a heart-shaped, vintage-style cake topped off with three cherries and the word “AWESOME” – inked onto her skin during the music video for “Cake”, one of four deluxe bonus tracks that were released as a follow-up to Juno in June. ![]() ” It was one month after releasing her debut studio album Juno – a funk-pop record layering bright, danceable beats and playful lyrics over honest confessions about the anxieties and nerves of growing up – and the 26-year-old Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter had been debating the meaning of “having your cake and eating it too” with a friend and grappling with the release of two years of physically and emotionally demanding creative work. ![]() Last October, Remi Wolf was sitting at a café in London, eating cake and sipping coffee, when a lyric came into her head: “ I think I’ll get a cake tattoo / Remind myself I can’t have it and eat it too. ![]()
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