Claire Rosinkranz talks about what colors and symbols helped inspire her for her songs “Chronic,” “My Lover” and”Crazy B*tch,” what it’s like to tour with Maroon 5 and more.

Claire Rosinkranz
It is about being a crazy b-tch. “This love has taken its toll.” It’s really weird, and it doesn’t really make sense. I guess it’s not really weird, it’s really cool. Hi, I’m Claire Rosinkranz, and this is music, you should know. When I was making “My Lover,” I focused on the theme of a garden a lot, because a garden is a place where life, death, pruning, picking, watering, roots and weeds can all exist, good and bad, life and death all together and still look very beautiful. That’s a lot of things in my life. And I also constantly was visualizing, like the lifespan of plants. How you know, things are planted, and things grow and blossom and bloom and reach their fullest potential, and then they start to wilt and die and go back into the ground, becoming life for the next plants ahead. That’s how I see a lot of things in my life as well, and sometimes the wilting and the death part is a very necessary process to get to the other side and produce more life. So there’s a lot of nuance to that, but the garden theme was something that was a forefront. I don’t think I’ve ever released a song like “Chronic,” and I think that was birthed out of a pretty tragic time. It shows a lot of different phases in my life where I would say that kind of represents the imagery of the plant, like being sown and then growing and blossoming and wilting and dying and becoming food for the next life ahead.

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