Closer to you

Closer To You” is the second single off Clairo’s debut album Immunity.

Background
She sang it live for the first time on April 11th, 2019 at El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.

On June 26th, 2019, Clairo announced on Twitterand Instagram that the song would premiere on Beats 1 World Record with Zane Lowe the next day.

I think a lot of that song is about me feeling like I’m not enough, or me feeling like I know this is wrong, but maybe I can be the one person that changes them. You read stories or you see movies where the guy has had failed relationships his whole life, and then he meets this one woman who just changes his whole life and changes his perspective on everything, and then now, he’s this amazing person. And it just doesn’t happen that way. Maybe it does in other situations, but I feel like it’s unhealthy to constantly feel like you have to win someone over to be in a relationship. At the end of the day, if someone wants to be in a relationship with you, they’ll be in a relationship with you, and it won’t be hard. But if someone’s making it hard, it’s not the right person. And as black and white as that sounds, it’s so difficult to know. And I’ve been there, many, many, many times, where I feel like I’m fighting for something that doesn’t exist. And I know that a lot of other people have been there as well. But I think it’s important to acknowledge that you know internally that it’s wrong. Going into it, you know deep down. If you ask yourself just a little bit harder, you know that all of these things that are not happening – they’re not texting you back, they’re not hanging out with you, they’re not showing you that they care – mean you know it’s not right!

– Clairo, Coup De Main Magazine