During the album’s gestation period, Clairo played her “Second Nature”—a song with abrupt changes ... the online phenomenon known as “Clairo shade,” the winking, hyper-online meme ...

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‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ was perfectly in keeping with the kaleidoscopic year of 1967. Lyricist Keith Reid overheard the title at a party in 1966 and decided to write a song based around i ...