Essential Listening: "Juna" - Clairo
Clairo has been making pop bops for years now, but the sudden and swift move to soft rock on her latest release, “Charm”, finds her in some of her finest moments. On “Juna”, one of the album’s highlights: she’s vulnerable (“I don't get too intimate/ Why would I let you in? (Why would I let you in?)/ But I think again”), she’s romantic (“Come to me slowly/ It's when you talk close enough/ That I feel it on my skin, breathe it in”), and most of all, she’s honest (I don't even try/ I don't have to think/ With you, there's no pretending”). The heart is perfectly naked and afraid, evoking the depth of reciprocated love we search for, and in the same breath, the high heights we touch when we feel love and loved.