“Sofia” by Clairo

Clairo put "Sofia" out as a single on the Fader Label in July 2019, and it belongs to her debut album, Immunity. She wrote it with Rostam Batmanglij, who produced it and helped record it; Danielle Haim plays the drums and Dave Fridmann mixed it. It lands somewhere between soft rock, Eurodisco and dance-rock, a quick three minutes riding a pulsing electropop beat.

It's a crush song with a sense of discovery. Clairo drew on her first crushes on older women she saw in the media, naming Sofía Vergara and Sofia Coppola, and wanted to celebrate that realization while keeping all the cheesy, corny language of a love song. Critics liked it, but its real life began later, when it went viral on TikTok and reached the Billboard Hot 100 over a year after it first came out.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.