Impossible

In “Impossible”, included as the second track on her debut album Immunity, Clairo speaks to a partner from her past, seeking closure and resisting temptations to reunite with them.

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In “Impossible”, included as the second track on her debut album Immunity, Clairo speaks to a partner from her past, seeking closure and resisting temptations to reunite with them.

Clairo previously posted a snippet of a different rendition of the bridge on Twitter, stating this is “one of [her] favorite songs on the record”, and that she’s “growing”.

[The Wurlitzer was played by] Peter Cottontale. He’s an incredible musician from Chicago and he worked on a few songs. He’s so talented. When he did that riff, it was just so heartwarming for me. It was a moment that I wanted to put the kids talking in because I just thought it was so pure. I interviewed the children’s choir [The Adderley School Choir] after working with them – I interviewed them for an hour and asked them a bunch of questions about their lives and about how they deal with emotions. I asked them questions like, “Describe your best friend? Tell me about your favourite day? How do you react when someone is mean to you?” And they gave back these incredibly intricate answers that sounded like 20-year-olds. I was like, “You’re nine! Why do you sound like me? This is not okay.” But hearing them laugh, and hearing them talk about what lockers are like in middle school, and hearing them talk about how much they like to write, and how one of them was starting a screenplay, and how they love their parents, it was just feelings that can’t be replaced. It is the most joyful thing to witness kids talk about things that they love and to hear them laugh, and I needed to hear that on the record. There’s nothing more beautiful than a nine-year-old laughing.

– Clairo, Coup De Main Magazine