BBC Radio 1

**BBC Radio 1** is a Britain-based radio station owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The station targets mainstream media, songs of electronic, dance, hip-hop, pop, indie, and funk, as well as holding interviews and other special musical-related episodes. The company has premiered multiple of Remi's singles including her 2021 hit single "Liz" as well as her debut's lead single "Liquor Store".

## "Photo ID" and "Hello Hello Hello"

Remi was featured on BBC Radio 1 for her rising popularity after "Photo ID"'s virtual explosion. Because of her fast rise in fame, the station also included "Hello Hello Hello", featured on the same EP.

## "Photo ID" (feat. Dominic Fike)

Remi was featured on BBC Radio 1 with the Dominic Fike feature of her hit track, "Photo ID". The episode debuted 20 days after the remix's release.

## "Liz"

"Liz" premiered on BBC Radio 1's station on June 1st. The song has since been played at other times, although. Unlike some other premieres of Remi's song, no interview was included with "Liz"'s debut.

### Commentary

- [JACK SAUNDERS] I think Remi's always had it in the locker. But, now, we really get to harness a new side of Remi Wolf - everchanging. And you don't really know where she's going as she's totally unpredictable as an artist and that's exactly what we love out here. ... For the first time anywhere on the planet, here's "Liz"!

("Liz" plays)

- [SAUNDERS] And [you] can now count yourself as a brand-new Remi Wolf fan. Remi has a catchy, affectionate name for her fans - you can now call yourself part of the Remjobs. (Laughs) Yeah, that's true, Remi Wolf calls her fans the Remjobs. Like I said, it's very affectionate.

## "Liquor Store"

"Liquor Store" premiered on BBC Radio 1's station on July 20th, 1:00 PM EST as a part of the *Hottest Record in the World* series.

### Remi Wolf: Hottest Record by Annie Mac | July 20th, 2021

- [TRANSITION NARRATOR] Now, this is Annie Mac's *Hottest Record in the World*.

- [ANNIE MAC] Tonight, we welcome our special guest to the show this evening, Remi Wolf, hello!

- [REMI WOLF] Hello, everybody! How are you? Hi Annie.

- Lookin' good, we got some great accessories going on here that people need to see because it's radio, but Remi's got an amazing—it's like a charm necklace, a huge pair of Elton John-style sunglasses~

- (Laughs)

- ~and then like a kind of Del Monte cap as well. You're looking fabulous. How are you feeling!?

- I feel good! I'm really excited, I'm nervous, I'm everything under the sun, pretty much. (Laughs)

- So, we spoke in June 2020~

- Yep!

- ~just over a year ago. And, that was when your song, Photo ID, was doin' the rounds—just, the original one, before the remix—and, we just fell in love with it on the show, and I remember calling you and just being like 'who is this Remi Wolf?'. And at the time, you were—I don't know if you remember our conversation—you were sofa-surfing.

- Yes, as I'd just gotten my puppy, Juno, I was jumping around from house-to-house, it was just the beginning of the pandemic, I had no idea what I was doing and my career was like taking off and I didn't really know what that meant or how to deal with that at all~

- And, looking at that compared to now, a year later, what's changed?

- Well, so much! Honestly, I think a big thing that happened after that interview is—and like, kind of the main theme of this album that I'm releasing this year—I got sober in the middle of the pandemic. I got sober in July of last year, and went to treatment and everything for it. And, it was just like the biggest life change ever for me. That's changed a lot in my life; I have a lot more clarity, I have a lot more, yeah, just clarity on life. Still not a lot of clarity, but more than I (laughing) had before. Things were changing really quickly so I feel like I'm constantly taking a step forward and like [going back?], 'cause everything's so new all the time. But, yeah, I actually wrote "Liquor Store" about getting sober in the time of my struggle with addiction and my struggle with co-dependency and how I really struggle in relationships a lot of the time and kind of just that "push and pull"—which I learned a lot about during quarantine. That's a major-major thing that happened. (Laughs)

- Well, let's hear the song, because that's why you're here. We did hear it once at the top of this show, but it'd be really nice to be able to get a bit of kind of context around where you were at when you wrote it and what your motivations were for writing it, so it's called "Liquor Store", it's Remi Wolf, it's your *Hottest Record in the World*.

- [TN] This is the *Hottest Record in the World*:

("Liquor Store" plays)

- [MAC] There you go Remi Wolf and "Liquor Store". Remi, mad to hear that. First of all, like, well done, talking about getting sober, that's not an easy thing to do, it's incredibly hard and it's a big uphill struggle and doing that in a pandemic when the word is upside-down, anyway, "well done" for doing that.

- [WOLF] Thank you, it was pretty difficult; the actual day I wrote this song was in a one week period where we were just on fire writing all this different songs and it was all just kinda spilling out of me, it was the first time I wrote any music pretty much since getting sober and it just all came out (laughs) writing this song—I would go from just sobbing, crying, crying, crying, crying for 20 minutes and then I'd be like "Okay, I'm ready to write the first verse". (both laugh) Yeah, it was pretty dramatic but~

- Necessary? Yeah, necessary! That's what music does, it teaches you about who you are and so much rises to the surface when you're writing.

- Yeah, exactly it was a very, very emotional experience, this song specifically; this song was a total catharsis for me for me. Honestly, as a lot of the songs on this album are and were during the writing but this one really special.

- So this album that you're talking about is the debut album coming this Autumn, what more can you tell us about this album?

- Well, I think that it's just bangers top-to-bottom. (Laughs)

- YES! You're still taking the line—that's the line, tell them to put that on the billboards; "Top-to-bottom bangers"

- I really think we did a good job at making it—you're gonna be hooked in, I hope. It really, truly is my heart and soul in a record, I think it's the most honest and vulnerable I've ever been, but I also had a lot of fun with it. I love having fun writing my songs, I want everybody to be able to dance and laugh and hug their friends—when they hear my songs—and make really special memories to my songs and I think that this is an album that will really facilitate that.

- Yeah, yeah, well It's great, it sounds like you're doing everything that you can for you to be as to be as strong and as stable moving forward into this and I'm just really happy for you and excited to be able to hear this whole album coming this Autumn. I'm really excited to make this track our *Hottest Record in the World*. Remi, it's such a pleasure to have time with you, thank you.

- Thank you! I just wanna say I appreciate you so much, all the support you've given me for the past year, it's truly a blessing and I wanna wish you well on your future endeavors~

- Thank you! Remi Wolf, thank you so much!

- Thank you! Thank you I really appreciate it.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k7wk
2. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tf8q
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CPllmcLl\_mL/
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/BBCR1MusicBot/status/1415727111952809987
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/remiwolf/status/1417185083983753218
6. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xy8g