Do you want any ketchup?
Immediately, the spell is broken, leaving Wolf in a state of pure shock.
She shrieks with laughter.
Remi Wolf’s sophomore album,Big Ideas,is out on July 12.
Im sorry, Im just, like, talking and eating your fries!
I was just…mind empty.
She was like, Do you guys want more coffee?
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Also, I made this shirt.
She chopped off her boyfriends penis.
And we were just like, Cool.
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Big Ideascontinues Wolfs strong track record of clear-as-a-bell vocals, funky production, and vibrant lyricism.
Also present are pronounced jazz and disco influences, dialed up to match the albums energetic spirit.
One recurring theme in Wolfs music is her fluid sexuality.
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Since her first EP,Youre a Dog!
When I first entered the music industry, it was a fight to be seen, she says.
Im just trying to be myself.
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Im writing a lot about my literal life experiences, she says.
I have no authority on anything, reallyon gender politics, on queer politics.
I dont have anything to say other than you do you, and Im gonna do me.
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We dont have to make it a big dealwhich I love.
The 20s are really fucking hard, dude.
I actually think its good.
Ive heard that 28 is a good year, so Im trying to enjoy it.
Balance is another big theme, both in her music and her personal life.
I want to explore everything and not feel like its complete sobriety or bust.
Right now I feel great, but Im not sober.
She has complicated feelings about how she dealt with her addiction in the past.
Sobriety was a huge part of whyJunoexists, she says.
At the time, that really was what I needed in my life.
Creating a routine has helped.
Honestly, super annoying, but exercise is important, she says, wryly.
But Im figuring that out.
In the music, she tried to break everything down.
It was all rolling around in my head, and I was trying to figure it all out.
I think that you could hear that in the songs, she says.
It was two years of synthesizing, being like, What input do I value?
What do I not?
Am I going to trust myself, or am I going to completely ignore myself?
If one lesson has emerged from Wolfs past few years of self-discovery, its the importance of knowing herself.
Im trusting my gut as much as possible.
Because thats when you get in trouble, when you are ignoring it, she says.
Every bad thing in my life thats ever happened has been because Ive ignored my own intuition.
I really do think that.
Im more confident in myself now.
Before, I was so anxious and I felt like such a fish out of water in the industry.
I didnt know how to navigate it and felt it collapsing onto me, she says.
Now Im able to float above it a little bit more.
