Alternative Pop Artist Cloe Wilder Releases Music Video for "Super 8"

CLOE WILDER
— ALTERNATIVE POP ARTIST —
RELEASES TOUR DIARY STYLE MUSIC VIDEO
“SUPER 8”
FOR HER SURPRISE SINGLE RELEASED APRIL 8

FORTHCOMING 2023 EP
(DETAILS TBA)

Above: “Super 8” Artwork 

LOS ANGELES, CA (May 31, 2023) — Today, 16-year-old alternative pop artist — Cloe Wilder — has delivered the official music video for her previous surprise single “Super 8.” In the midst of the Spencer Sutherland “In His Mania” National Tour where she graced the stage as the opening act, the track was released on Saturday, April 8 in response to a visceral connection made by fans at shows.

Written by Cloe and Sam Nicolosi, the song is a beautifully honest exploration of the guilt she has grappled with upon leaving her family and friends to pursue her career as an artist, earning her a spot in The Honey Pop’s feature for “3 Alt-Pop Artists That Deserve Your Attention.” Now paired with a vintage style music video featuring dreamy clips of her life on the road, the song comes full circle. 

Stream / Purchase “Super 8” here. 

“It’s about being away from home, I felt so guilty about leaving my family and I felt like a bad friend,” confides Cloe. “If I could pick one line to summarize ‘Super 8,’ it would be ‘I feel so bad that you got stuck loving me.’ That’s why this song is so important to me; I was really owning up to all of that."

With nods to Lana Del Rey and Billie Eilish, Cloe manages to emulate icons while still finding her unique sound in the alt-pop space. Characterized by bold vocals developed far beyond her years, she simultaneously carries a quality of heartfelt tenderness and sensitivity in her tone, affirming the genuineness of her words. 

With her sophomore EP on the horizon (details TBA), she most recently released “Remember Me,” an ethereal recount of her childhood, delivered on January 25. Unveiling exclusively in an interview with Ones To Watch, music journalist David O’Connor praised the song for its “mellifluous melodies that seem cloaked in a lifetime of expression” and noted Cloe as a “Prodigious and precocious artist.”

Above: Cloe Wilder; Credit: Jesse DeFlorio

Cloe’s youngest years revolved not around soccer practice or trips to the mall with friends, but instead learning the great classical works on the piano, and attending weekly recitals. Although she found passion in the piano, a life of playing 18th century piano concertos was not her ultimate plan. She attended her first songwriting camp at the age of 12, and immediately after, “couldn’t imagine doing anything else,” she says.

It wasn’t until later when she was introduced to songwriter and producer Sam Nicolosi, that her destiny seemed ready to be truly fulfilled. “Sam and I met through his manager,” Cloe recalls, “we did a session in March of 2020 and I absolutely loved him. Eventually I was only working with him. It changed my life and my process, because he gave me so much room to be myself.” That partnership resulted in her 2021 debut album, Teenage Lullabies (produced by Nicolosi), which truly showcased her raw talent, one well beyond her years.

Still, comparisons to Lana Del Rey are not unfounded, as she’s been a fan since she was seven years old, and has a similar ability to convey melancholy in a way that feels like a shared experience. Much is revealed, though, by her admission that she’s also spent a lot of time listening to the likes of Phoebe Bridgers and Elliott Smith, so, obviously she’s not trying to cheer up her listeners with this new material, but rather give them someplace to go to not feel so alone in their sadness.

“Cloe really developed a concrete vision to express in this new body of work,” Nicolosi observes. “Capturing a sort of raw, less produced, and more folk-inspired sound was the mission this time around. Cloe wants to make songs that make you feel something. There have been sessions where the song is so real that I want to cry, even after hearing it over and over. There’s true magic in that.”  

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