“Flaming Hot Cheetos” is the second track and first single from Clairo’s EP, diary 001. It acquired its name simply because Clairo was eating them when making the demo.
It’s a song about one of her past relationships, Clairo stated:
The song was sort of a struggle between one side of me trying to...
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
Sometimes I feel like I just wanna go back to my old ways
You're telling me I'm silly
It's no fun in the old days
I'm such a romantic
I never remember how things really happen
I guess you're attractive
Or something
[Verse 2]
Live in the moment
That's what they tell me
But what ever happened
To when you would hold me
And hold me
And hold me
[Pre-Chorus]
Girlfriend or girl that's a friend?
It's easy just to pretend
That we don't have something real
[Chorus]
It's just how we feel
We feel
Oh, it's just how we feel
How we feel
[Bridge]
I'm feeling something right
I'm feeling something right
I'm feeling something right
I'm feeling something right
I'm feeling something right
I'm feeling something right
[Verse 3]
I wanna be the one you think about at night
And I wanna be the one that you would put up a fight for
You know that I adore
That even when you're bored
I'd buy you anything and everything I can't afford
Flaming Hot Cheetos was written by Clairo.
Flaming Hot Cheetos was produced by Clairo.
Clairo released Flaming Hot Cheetos on Tue Jun 13 2017.
I wrote [“Flamin' Hot Cheetos”] about a past relationship I had. I felt like I had romanticized a lot of things that weren’t actually that great and looked at my relationship unrealistically at times. The song was sort of a struggle between one side of me trying to “snap out of it,” and the other si...
Yes. This song was certified platinum by the RIAA on July 18, 2022.
In 2019, Clairo performed “Flaming Hot Cheetos” at the Lollapalooza festival in Chile.