Chords for Clairo - What's In My Bag?

Hi, [Ab] I'm Clairo.
I'm at Amoeba Records and this is [Gb] What's in My Bag. _
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Gb] The first thing I wanted to talk [G] about [Bb] was this [G] record called They Mean Us by The Ladies,
which is also Hella, Zach Hell, _ [Bb] and Rob Crow from Pinback.
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_ [Eb] They didn't have the record, so I just put these two together. _
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[A] I love both [Bb] of their music [D] separately [Bb] and I [Db] think that this record [F] shows, one, how good
collaboration [Bb] is, which is really important to me.
Two, how much [A] they bent rules in music and they were able to just kind of do whatever
they [F] wanted but still hold on to things that make their music strong.
So like, Rob Crow's writing is really strong and obviously Zach Hell's [Bb] drumming is iconic.
So [F] it was really cool to hear a record that had both of their strengths together yet still really different.
[D] Any Other City by Life Without Buildings. _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] Scottish band that I fell in [A] love with like sophomore year of high school.
Sue Tompkins is the lead singer [G] and I fell in love with this album [C] because of her vocal delivery.
I think it's like one [Dm] of my biggest inspirations.
[Bm] Our voices aren't very similar but the way that [Am] she fills [C] space in songs and the way
that she [D] can find gaps within the music [B] that no one else would really [Bm] sing is really inspiring.
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_ _ _ _ _ [B] It's like kind of almost impossible to memorize one song because all the lyrics are just completely
like a stream of [Em] consciousness.
It's not supposed to be like [Bm] structured, which I really like because I [D] think, again, it's
really cool to break rules [Dm] in music and kind of take what you know and [B] flip it around.
I really love her and I love this album so much.
Mambo Nasa, [Bm] Lusine Mercier de Clou.
She's this French artist from the [G] 80s that I [Bm] absolutely love.
Lava, lava, lava.
_ _ Happy [B] to make it up.
I like her for the same reasons I like Sue Tompkins with [G] her vocal delivery and the way
that she's able to see [E] music more than [E] just its regular structure.
[Em] But I think what I like about her the most is that [A] in her music, [C]
she is able to kind
[Eb] of build and then learn and then deconstruct her own songs.
It feels like she's sat with her songs for so long that she knows them so inside out
that she can just do whatever she wants and kind of just improvises and messes around
with really [F] intricate, beautiful [Ebm] melodies and [B]
production.
[Eb] Love this album.
My next pick _ is Feel Like Making Love, Roberta Flack.
We couldn't find [Fm] the original one but you can see the album cover right here.
That's All That Matters.
It's [Ab] in here.
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Roberta was [F] one of the first people [Fm] I listened to that really introduced me to good production.
Good drums and really good chords and [Bb] figuring out ways to sprinkle in little things in [C] the
instrumentals, like how to feel [F] a song _ [Cm] sonically, not just [Ab] through lyrics and [Cm] through singing [Eb] delivery, whatever.
Yeah, she was the first person that I [Gbm] listened to I really was able to focus on [Eb] the importance
of a really good structure or a really good foundation in [Fm] a song.
[Eb] The next one, it has probably been chosen like 10 million trillion times but_ Mad Villainy.
[C] _ _ _ _ [Cm] I chose this specifically to talk about MF Doom and Madlib's side projects.
I mean, this record is iconic [E] and both of them are insanely talented but Quasimodo is
probably one of my favorite [Eb] projects to date [E] and I just think everything that they both
touch is crazy, [B] crazy gold.
They're the perfect definition of a [Eb] perfect duo.
Tender [B] Buttons by Broadcast.
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ I think this album is pretty perfect.
Trish Keenan is an [B] incredible songwriter.
Around the time I discovered [G] Broadcast, which was like, yeah, sophomore year of high school,
I was also listening to Mazzy Star and The Sundays.
Hope Sandoval and Harriet Wheeler [A] are my biggest [C] inspirations with my own singing and
my own [Gb] songwriting.
I think [F] [B] they're top for [G] me.
But I think what I loved [G] about Trish was the eerie [Am] kind of twist that came with her music
and the other bands that I discovered through her.
[D] Oddly enough, Lush [Am] and [Em] The Slits, Pulp, Lydia Lunch, kind [Bm] of getting into more of the darker
music through her.
The [D] black [Em] cat.
Curious [Bm] sir.
[A] Curious sir.
My last one, [D] this Yellow Magic Orchestra record. _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [G] Love them.
But I chose this [Bb] because of Ryuichi Sakamoto's wife, [A]
Akiko Yano.
[D] And she's like one of my favorite artists [Gbm] in the entire world.
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_ _ [Gbm] She played in [Bm] Yellow Magic Orchestra [G] for a while.
I don't think she gives enough [Bm] credit.
I think she's really sick.
She's really a big inspiration for me as someone who's learning to [D] produce a woman in production.
She's kind of an icon.
But I [G] do think that she's underappreciated.
[Bm] I couldn't find any of her albums, but [Bb] this one's [D] for her.
That's it for me.
Alright, that's [C] great.
Thank you so [F] much.
Thanks for having me.
Our pleasure. _ _ _
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Bye.
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_ _ _ _ We will have it. _