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Rolling Stone Clairo s Wide Open Spaces Claire Cottrill became a Gen Z hero for her deeply openhearted songs, but ended up wondering whether she wanted to stick with music at all. So she headed to the country to find herself and a way forward
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It’s noon in the Catskills, and Claire Cottrill is thinking about buying a barn. The 22-year-old singer-songwriter, who performs as Clairo, recently purchased more than five acres of property in nearby Massachusetts, and she has big plans to use its well, churn butter, and convert that prospective barn into a studio. “There’s privacy that I’ve been craving for a long time,” she says. “When I’m there, I genuinely feel like I’m on a different planet.”