Remi and Chloe

**Remi and Chloe**, alternatively known as the **Citrus Girls** or **Lemon and Lime**, was a two-member acoustic band consisting of Remi Wolf and Chloe Zilliac as both lead singers and guitarists. Remi and Chloe both lived in and grew up in Palo Alto, California. The two began composing and performing covers and sometimes original music at talent shows, fairs, and other public events near and in Palo Alto.

The band also collaborates with The Extracts during non-acoustic performances to form RCE, "Remi and Chloe with The Extracts."

## Career

Remi and Chloe's career publicly peaked during 2013, evidenced by the fact that most media of them together is from this period with very little after.

### Formation

During Remi and Chloe's freshman year of high school, the two disbanded from their previous trio entitled Citrus and decided to form the duo "Remi and Chloe". The two visited each other, writing songs, daily and eventually began to preform at every local gig they could catch.

### "Carousel"

In September of 2011, Remi and Chloe performed together for the first time ever at the Red Rock Coffee at Mountain View, this included an original of theirs, "Carousel". According to a Palo Alto Weekly interview, the live drew a great applause. The track was about body image and written for a friend who had an eating disorder,

> *Body image, that's a really big part of high school.
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> Chloe Zilliac via Palo Alto Weekly*
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On July 30th, 2012, the team released the song, their first published original song ever. The song was released on multiple distribution services, like Deezer and Spotify. The single was later used in a Castilleja School student short film.

### "Underwater"

In March of 2013, the duo wrote and sang "Underwater" at the Riekes Center for Human Enhancement in Menlo Park on the 12th. The organization sent Veronica Weber to record the two. The video was published to YouTube on March 20th, 2013, and an article was issued two days later on Palo Alto Weekly,

> *Today, they're sitting in a recording studio at the Riekes Center for Human Enhancement near Menlo Park, alternately playing and talking about their budding music careers. They've been taking classes at the center, studying songwriting, guitar, harmony and theory. They need their enthusiasm to get them through this schedule of music classes, private voice lessons and performances. Oh, and being high school juniors on the Palo Alto college-prep track.
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> Rebecca Wallace, via Palo Alto Weekly*
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Around four months later, the song got professional treatment while being produced at SAE Expression College, however, no fully produced version of the song has since surfaced. The track may have been considered for the duo's debut extended play, but if this were the case, it was likely quickly scrapped.

### "Gravity" and "Watcha Doin'"

In early 2013, RCE entered into San Carlos Battle of the Bands with two previously performed original songs, "Gravity" and "Watcha Doin'". The group ended up winning the competition — thus receiving the first place prize, a gig at Action Sports, — and uploaded their submission to YouTube. Both songs were planned to be released in 2014, although no final versions of either track was ever released.

### *Lookout*

*Lookout* serves as Remi and Chloe's debut extended play, funded via Kickstarter. Remi and Chloe collaborated with White Noise Symphony in November 2013 to begin recording rough versions of their desired tracks. They intended to issue a six-track EP.

They needed cash to create a professional EP, thus they launched a Kickstarter campaign entitled "The Remi & Chloe EP Project". The $4,000 objective had been met by the next day. Remi and Chloe were taken aback by the overwhelming response and decided to establish two extra targets. The campaign ended on December 13th, 2013, the same day that the EP was released. The designers received more than 200 percent of their original goal, $8,285.

### Separation

Remi and Chloe never publicly formally separated, although their last social media post together was in 2017. Since the breakup, Chloe has remained friends with Remi. Remi has moved on with an independent music career and Chloe currently works as an Associate Strategist at Sunstone Strategies.

### Reflection

Remi has since commented on the band in hindsight in various interviews,

* The Line of Best Fit
* W Magazine
* V Magazine

> *... Wolf and Chloe began writing music together. “We were inseparable all throughout high school, pretty much. We hung out every day just writing songs.” She continues, “Then we started performing, performing at school, performing all over our city and adjacent cities and just expanded and became this band that people knew.”
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> Remi Wolf, via The Line of Best Fit*
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> ''*You have a lifelong background in music. You actually have a degree in musical theory as well.*
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> ... I kind of branched off from that with one of the girls, her name was Chloe. We branched off and started our own little band Remi and Chloe in my freshman year of high school. That's how I started to write songs.
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> *Was this something you did with professional aspirations in mind or just kind of something you were doing for fun?*
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> Absolutely no professional aspirations at all. I think it was, like, half for my parents to get us girls doing something after school, and half we were all really good friends. We did have a teacher, her name was Iris and we went to her once a week. We performed at my eighth-grade graduation. We were called Citrus Girl. It was cute. When we were performed, we'd be like, “I'm Remi and I'm a lime.” “I'm Chloe and I'm a lemon” That's really bad but funny in hindsight.
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> Remi Wolf, via W Magazine
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> *For Remi Wolf, this time came freshman year when she and her best friend and bandmate Chloe Day Zilliac performed at a local art fair. "Very Simon and Garfunkel, but a lot worse," the 24-year-old DIY pop star laughs from her L.A. home ...
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> Remi Wolf, via V Magazine*
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## Gallery

* Live Performances
* Photos

"Underwater" (with Chloe Zilliac) - Live on Palo Alto Online"Gravity" (with Chloe Zilliac) - Live at The Brit"Watcha Doin'" (with Chloe Zilliac) - Live at San Carlos Battle of the High School Bands"Hit the Road Jack" (cover of Ray Charles) (with Chloe Zilliac) - Live at The Brit"Aeroplane" (cover of Red Hot Chili Peppers) (with Chloe Zilliac) - Live at Hurricane Music Festival"Electric Feel" (cover of MGMT) (with Chloe Zilliac) - Live"Lonely Boy" (cover of Black Keys) (with Chloe Zilliac) - Live"Better Together" (cover of Jack Johnson) (with Chloe Zilliac) - Live"Toxic" (cover of Britney Spears) (with Chloe Zilliac) - Live"Rock and Roll" (cover of Led Zeppelin) (with Chloe Zilliac) - Live"Somebody That I Used to Know"-"Heart-Shaped Box" (cover of Gotye and Nirvana) (with Chloe Zilliac) - Live"Rooster" (cover of Alice in Chains) (with Chloe Zilliac) - LiveRemi, Chloe Zilliac and The Extracts - Live at Red Rock Café

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/remi-wolf-we-love-dogs-beck-interview#:~:text=I'm%20Remi%20and,lemon
2. ↑ https://remi-wolf.fandom.com/wiki/Palo\_Alto\_Weekly#:~:text=That%20was%20at%20an%20open-mic,2011
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.facebook.com/RemiAndChloe/posts/1671585086209172
4. ↑ https://remi-wolf.fandom.com/wiki/Palo\_Alto\_Weekly#:~:text=They%20perform%20sometimes,The%20Extracts.
6. ↑ https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/remi-wolf-we-love-dogs-beck-interview#:~:text=We%20branched,high%20school
7. ↑ https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/remi-wolf-on-the-rise#:~:text=We%20were%20people,knew.
8. ↑ https://remi-wolf.fandom.com/wiki/Palo\_Alto\_Weekly#:~:text=and%20also%20drew%20applause,play%20there
9. ↑ https://remi-wolf.fandom.com/wiki/Palo\_Alto\_Weekly#:~:text=Their%20first%20original,lyrics%20go.
10. ↑ https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2013/03/22/paly-musicians-remi--chloe-put-fresh-spin-on-classic-tunes
11. ↑ https://www.deezer.com/en/album/5194641
12. ↑ https://open.spotify.com/album/55OkubCHVZsFDP3SlGUjz0?si=-OFG5IQ4QbqGrpOmRwB4rA
13. ↑ https://remi-wolf.fandom.com/wiki/Palo\_Alto\_Weekly#:~:text=%22Carousel%22%20was,Castilleja%20student%20film
14. ↑ https://www.mv-voice.com/morguepdf/2013/2013\_03\_22.mvv.section1.pdf
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcbPxSsAeSA
16. ↑ https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2013/03/22/paly-musicians-remi--chloe-put-fresh-spin-on-classic-tunes
17. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/RemiAndChloe/photos/605750399459318
18. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jdtRBkNzYQ
19. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHwGorZgMOM
20. ↑ https://patch.com/california/sancarlos/remi-chloe--the-extracts-live-at-action-sports--skatepark
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20130523055119/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QV4ndkXK7k
22. ↑ https://patch.com/california/belmont-ca/remi-chloe-and-the-extracts-to-perform-at-action-sports
23. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/RemiAndChloe/photos/a.449426181758408/579795922054766/
24. ↑ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2101490171/the-remi-and-chloe-ep-project/description#:~:text=we%20will%20work%20with%20our,full%20EP
25. ↑ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2101490171/the-remi-and-chloe-ep-project/posts/678131
26. ↑ https://soundcloud.com/whitenoisesymphony/run-feat-remi-and-chloe
27. ↑ https://remi-wolf.fandom.com/wiki/Palo\_Alto\_Weekly#:~:text=the%20two%20aspire,full%20album
28. ↑ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2101490171/the-remi-and-chloe-ep-project
29. ↑ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2101490171/the-remi-and-chloe-ep-project/posts/670998
30. ↑ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2101490171/the-remi-and-chloe-ep-project/posts/693349
31. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CVvkz51vTgh/
32. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chloe-day-zilliac-50a475101