You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Remy Wolfe is a singer and songwriter originally from Palo Alto, California.
She's been releasing music since 2019.
She performed at Coachella in 2023 and toured with Olivia Rodrigo, Lorde, and Paramore.
Her second album, Big Ideas, came out in July 2024.
I talked to Remi about how she and her collaborators wrote and produced the song Soup,
how they used 80s gear to make 80s sounds,
and how the idea of making a fun anthem quickly turned into something pretty vulnerable.
My name is Remy Wolfe.
So, I was on tour at the end of 2022 in Australia.
I was holding koalas, I was chilling with kangaroos,
and I was also in a lot of airports and in a lot of cafes.
And in said airports and cafes,
they play the song Walking on a Dream by Empire of the Sun. I was hearing it everywhere.
Because they're an Australian band.
And it was a song I already knew,
but I regained an appreciation for it when I was hearing it in its natural habitat.
The song is this huge four-on-the-floor banger.