The California teen’s catchy electro-pop opens a window into her turbulent emotional world

In many ways, 19-year-old singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Claire Rosinkranz is cut from the same cloth as fellow pop-punk inspired Gen Zer Olivia Rodrigo. With youthful ease, Rosinkranz candidly repackages the mixed-bag teen experience as vivid, appealing electro-pop, darting between feelings of euphoria, anxiety and ennui. “My songs are basically like a personal diary,” she said in an interview with Coup De Main magazine. “Whether it’s a song or poetry or a story… I write it down.”

Growing up in California, Rosinkranz spent much of her childhood watching her musician parents at work. Before long, she decided it was the path for her, too. At 16 she was signed to Republic Records after the viral success of her TikTok track Backyard Boy, a dazed, sunny love song that has garnered more than a billion streams.

Her forthcoming album, Just Because, reveals a teen navigating the brink of adulthood. Across 13 catchy, eclectic tracks, Rosinkranz offers a wide-open window into her emotional world, her lyrics brimming with candour, charisma and mischief. “The drama makes me bored/ But I heard he said she’s a whore,” she chirps on Never Goes Away, an ode to watching your mouth. The uncertainty and existential angst of growing up isn’t always easy, but in Rosinkranz’s music being young is rarely boring.

• Just Because is out later this year via Slowplay/Republic

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