I was going through such a hard time, and that's such a thing that people with anxiety and depression often feel. I wrote this song about feeling like I was so unpleasant to be around. “I feel like an old man, old woman, really weird person a lot of the time. It didn't feel how I wanted it to feel, and it didn't feel how everybody was telling me it should feel.” I wrote this song about how my career was going super well, the momentum was moving, but I felt like shit. Kenny played all the drums on the songs, and he put them through this crazy analog gear to make them sound so huge. “I wrote this song with Jared and Kenny Beats at his studio in the Valley. I want every song to be its own statement.” It's definitely more of a dark pop sound. Would you want to come through?' They had these chords down, and as soon as I heard the chords, I was like, 'I can write something to this.' We decided to keep the verses way more stripped down because I am speaking so fast and I want you to hear those words.
He was like, 'Remi, we don't have anybody to write a song for right now. “Jared had a session with this producer, Y2K. Cheese?' I was like, 'Okay, that's going in the song right now.'” Cheese line came out of Elie being like, 'Guys, let's get some lunch.' He was like, 'Oh my god, should we Postmates Chuck E. It was one of my most fun times I've ever had making music. It was the first session that we had together with Elie. “I made that song with my friend Jared and my friend Elie. I can be way too perceptive and care about other people's energy and let that affect me, and that just causes this crazy anxiety.” I named it 'Guerrilla' because when I would go to a party, it felt like guerrilla warfare. We didn't really know what COVID was, so I was still going to hang out with some people, but it was a very anxious time in my life. I started writing that in the beginning of the pandemic. I have a lot of independence on that level.” Nobody tells me really what to do creatively, thank god. I was like, 'Hey, can you leave me alone?' So the line 'Little bitches telling me what to do' were my team, but that was just a moment in time. I love my team, but at the time I was in such a tough spot and people were constantly wanting me to work. But this song was also written in that big week of depression. This is like if Carlos Santana liked playing funk. The song is really about everything that I was going through in COVID and the way I was viewing myself at the time.” Anthony Kiedis doesn't have that much to do with the song other than I was reading his memoir at the time, and he talked a lot about his relationship with his dad. I was in and out of absolute breakdown, sobbing tears the entire time we were writing that song. But that song is 'This is how it feels to be in my head right now.' I also wrote that song really, really fast.
In my writing, I tend to do a lot of abstraction and surrealist imagery, just a lot of crazy shit. It’s one of my most vulnerable songs on the record. “I wrote this song about having gotten recently sober, this big fear of abandonment that I have, and this codependency issue that I've been dealing with for a long time. Here she goes deeper into how they all came together. I was so completely and utterly miserable, and then we made some of my favorite songs on the album,” she says of her work with coproducer Jared Solomon. Mental-health-wise, it was one of the worst I'd ever been.
“There was this week where I wrote ‘Liquor Store,’ ‘Anthony Kiedis,’ ‘wyd,’ and ‘Grumpy Old Man,’” she says. He was my partner.” Juno mixes chaotic funk, maximalist melodies, psychedelic synths, and absurdist lyrics for an album that’s as ebullient as that new pup. “He was with me for the writing of every song.
“I raised him during the pandemic,” Wolf tells Apple Music of the album’s namesake. Juno-which, not surprisingly, is named after her dog-is her first full-length.
SONGS IN JUNO SERIES
Since appearing on American Idol in 2014 and realizing a life of conventionality was not for her, LA pop singer-songwriter Remi Wolf has graduated from USC Thornton School of Music, released a series of EPs (2019’s You’re a Dog!, 2020’s I’m Allergic to Dogs!, and 2021’s We Love Dogs!), scored a viral hit on TikTok (“Photo ID”), and signed a deal with Island Records.
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