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On “I Wouldn’t Ask You”, Clairo sings about a time in her life when she was hospitalized from severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and cared for by her boyfriend at the time, as she divulged in a July 2019 interview with PAPER. Throughout the song, Clairo expresses gratitude to her lover for being her caretaker, while also conveying varying degrees of intimacy.
The song has two distinct conceptual parts, marked by a distinguishable change in instrumentation, tone, and style. The first part has a slow tempo, backed by a subtle piano accompaniment, similar to the opening track “Alewife.” During this part, Clairo sings with a warbly vocoded voice, as she describes her condition in the hospital, hinting at feelings of helplessness and isolation from her partner. The song then morphs into a more upbeat R&B groove, in which Clairo suddenly sings from a position of full intimacy to her partner, free from the limitations of her arthritis.
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