Song · Clairo
“Bags” by Clairo
From the album Immunity (2019)
“Bags” by Clairo appears on 6 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2019 and 2025. It was first released in 2019 on the album Immunity. Its best result is #10 on the WERS Top 88 Songs of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #64 indie & aaa song of 2019 and #4,546 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Bags" was the first taste of Immunity, Clairo's 2019 debut album, and it's a bedroom-pop confession with shoegaze fuzz around the edges. She wrote it with Rostam and Nicholas Breton, and she produced it with Rostam, with Danielle Haim sitting in on drums and Shawn Everett mixing.
The song circles her earliest romantic feelings for a girl, stuck on that nervous border between friend and something more, with a crush who might not be into girls at all. She keeps wondering whether it's mutual and whether she ought to make the first move, and the music hangs in the same suspense. It racked up more than 20 million streams that year, landed a Song of the Year nod at the Boston Music Awards, and Dominic Fike covered it for Triple J's Like a Version.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 48 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2019 | 90 |
| 2019 | 10 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2019 | 88 |
| 2019 | 54 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2019 | 100 |
| 2019 | 41 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2019 | 89 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 785 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 376 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
Also listed as: BAGS.
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