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Softly by Clairo
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ClairoProduced by
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After coming out in March 2018, Clairo began releasing more songs that openly used female pronouns. Leading into the more overt track “Sofia,” “Softly” sees Clairo confessing her love for another girl, a feeling she battled with as a teenager.
She told them in May 2019:
I’ve been struggling with t...
Softly Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Is it alright
To feel this way so early?
But am I blind?
All the sweet nothings fallin' in love overnight
[Pre-Chorus]
Didn't mean to get so close
And I know that I should probably go
But I got this feeling
Tell me, girl, I gotta know
[Chorus]
Touch you softly, I call you up late at night
Know that it isn't right, but you could be my one and only
You get me in the mood, know what I'm tryna do (Oh)
Do you think that we can move closer, baby?
I want you, yeah, yeah (Ooh)
[Verse 2]
And all my life
Been wanting this forever (Mm)
And in my mind
Think of ways to ask you "Why don't you come over sometime?"
[Pre-Chorus]
Didn't mean to get so close
And I know that I should probably go
But I got this feeling
Tell me, girl, I gotta know
[Chorus]
Touch you softly, I call you up late at night
Know that it isn't right, but you could be my one and only
You get me in the mood, know what I'm tryna do (Oh)
Do you think that we can move closer, baby?
I want you, yeah, yeah (Ooh)
[Outro]
And I don't care what they say
And I don't care what they say
Care what they say to me, I'm doing it differently
Baby, I'm doing it differently
Softly Q&A
Who produced Softly's ?
Softly was produced by Rostam.
What did Clairo say about "Softly"?
I remember walking into Rostam’s studio and being like, ‘I want to make a Sisters With Voices song!‘ I just really wanted a song that felt like it could be in a teenage high school movie. I wanted that “Unwritten” Natasha Bedingfield feeling but for me and my experience. Rostam started doing that cr...
What have the artists said about the song?
I’m also talking about girls in that song – when you see a girl that’s just so beautiful and you’re falling in love overnight and you just have all of these pure-hearted emotions. When you first start to like someone, it’s exciting and it’s fun, and to me, when I hear that song, I picture someone fr...