![]() Released on October 15, Juno i s a series of chaotic songs that sound and feel like an inner monologue: jumping from one thought to another and obsessing over minute details. I ended up just making some really real shit.” “It left me with very little emotional control.” Concurrently, as she unpacked her addiction, Wolf also used her time off the road to write the songs that would eventually become her debut album. In what she calls “the hardest thing ever,” Wolf began to conquer at her alcoholism, something that left her feeling like “a raw nerve.” “It was such a crazy lifestyle change for me,” she says. In the absence of her normal distractions, Wolf says she “had to really look inwards more than ever - I knew then that I had to get sober.” With the breakneck pace she had become used to, the beginning of quarantine in March of 2020 sounded like it might give her a “nice bit of a break.” But, much like everyone else, as the initial weeks of lockdown stretched into endless months, she found herself reevaluating her direction. Soon after, she dropped a couple EPs, signed a deal with Island Records, and arguably most importantly, adopted her French Bulldog Juno, who became the inspiration for the name of Wolf’s debut album. “I didn’t even have time to think at that point,” she recalls. ![]() ![]() The same day the Still Woozy tour was booked in early 2019, Wolf finalized her management team, led by Alfredo Tirado of Take & Thrown Management. Soon, she had a slew of artist co-signs, including Still Woozy who reached out to the then-management-less, label-less and agency-less Wolf asking her to open for him on tour. Wolf’s vision of a pop career marked by technicolor visuals, eccentric lyrics and funk-laced beats didn’t take long to catch on. She says, “Our lives just became working with each other.” “We knew right away that song was special, but we didn’t know how much it was going to change everything.” The track created a domino effect, starting with Solomon relocating to California to keep writing with Wolf. ![]() “That song quickly changed both of our lives,” she says. Though they lost touch for about five years, the pair reconnected - only to emerge with her sophomore single “Sauce” after one of their first sessions writing together. Somewhere between Idol and USC, Wolf met her main collaborator and close friend, Jared Solomon (also known as Solomonphonic), who has co-written many of Wolf’s songs since she began releasing music in 2019. Her performance chops are something she has worked to master her whole life, from singing in a girls’ harmony group to auditioning for American Idol at 17. Later, she attended University of Southern California where she studied popular music. One To Watch: Remi Wolf on How Island Supports Her 'Drastic, Crazy' Ideas ![]()
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