‘I Don’t Care for Labels at All’

Clairo is just living life freely. In a new cover story interview with Seventeen, the Charm star opened up about why she’d rather not place a label on her identity as a queer person.

“I don’t care for labels at all. I believe people should like who they want and no one should have a problem with it,” she told the magazine. “I’ve had a better experience with my queerness once I just shut the fuck up and let it happen to me. If I date a girl, I date a girl. If I date a guy, I date a guy.”

She added: “I also understand that people benefit from drawing a hard line for themselves — having a clear path is also important. It varies person to person. Being queer is a huge part of who I am. I felt so free once I understood that I love anybody and everybody. I’ll kiss anyone.”

In the interview, Clairo joked about taking the “Am I gay?” tests and that she wished she could tell her younger self she doesn’t “need a definite answer” on who and what she likes. “I can still be curious, date, and kiss who I want,” she said. “I don’t have to wake up and decide who I am by a certain day. That was the first time in my life that I had to be OK with not having an answer.”

In a response to a question about how her relationship with queerness has shifted over the years after she came out as bisexual in a 2018 tweet, Clairo told Seventeen: “It’s really beautiful. It feels good to be queer.”

Several years later, the musician told Rolling Stone that she felt that “people knew that about me” already.”

“I am not trying to take up tons of space in the community, so I don’t always want to talk about it. That doesn’t mean that my experience isn’t important, it just means that someone can explain it with more grace and understanding than I can,” she said in 2021. “It’s odd that I didn’t really explore that very much in this record.”