Manchester-based artist Chloe Slater takes Wonderland track-by-track through her rousing and genre-blending new EP, “Love Me Please”.

Fiercely candid in her observations of the society that surrounds her, and refreshingly musically explorative, 21-year-old songwriter and guitarist Chloe Slater excels on her potent new five track EP, “Love Me Please”.

The EP—Slater’s sophomore—is brimming with confident writing, raw in its emotion and razor sharp in its witticism, and projects the rising act as a powerful voice in the socially-conscious Gen Z movement. To find out more about the progressive and dynamic work, Wonderland asked the artist herself to offer up a track-by-track analysis.

Listen to “Love Me Please”…

Read Chloe’s track-by-track analysis…

“Tiny Screens” 

“Tiny Screens” is a song full of loud, thrashy drums and guitars and commentary about the fickle nature of virality and fame on the internet. I was inspired by the many viral tik-tokers that enjoy a few weeks of fame and celebration for something really random- for example beavo swallowing potatoes—before being torn down by the masses a few weeks later. this is one of the heaviest songs i’ve released yet and I loved leaning into the rockier side of my music taste for this project.

 “Sucker” 

I wrote sucker after receiving the comment from a lot of older people online that my views will change as I get older, and i will become more selfish. the song is about wanting to stay true to my beliefs! My favourite part is the crazy synth in the chorus I have no idea how that ended up in there.

“Fig Tree” 

“Fig Tree” is a special song to me—it’s mainly about the beauty standards that women face as they age but also how capitalism plays a key role in the creation of insecurity as a sales tactic. I was sick of scrolling through tiktok or instagram and having new insecurities marketed to me alongside a pricey solution. I mainly took reference from the Sylvia Plath poem in the bell jar for the chorus and the Trainspotting intro monologue for the bridge/outro. I wrote the spoken word bridge/outro so quickly it just felt like everything i had been thinking and feeling about this topic fell out all at once!

“We’re Not The Same”  

“We’re Not The Same” started as a bit of a joke—it’s loosely based around a guy that used to come up on my reels who looked amazing but his music was devoid of substance. I think I was probably a bit jealous that the same advertising tactics wouldn’t work for my music—hence the title. as the song moves on the character morphs into the stereotypical indie soft boy meme, the kind of guy that worships Quentin Tarantino and pretends to read poetry on the bus. The whole song was made pretty much in a day and it’s one of my favourites!

“Imposter” 

I wrote “Imposter” at a time where I was struggling with my transition into being a musician with an online persona. as someone that has been fairly likeable and agreeable their whole life, it was pretty hard to suddenly have 1000s of people assuming things about me that are wrong or telling me they hated me. This song is an honest depiction of my struggle with that, feelings of guilt for not being the happiest despite living my dream, and also the imposter system that comes from gaining an audience so quickly. I’m very aware that there are far more people from less privileged backgrounds that deserve what i have but haven’t had the opportunities or luck to get there. I wrote the song on my acoustic guitar and then we added that big end section which feels like such a cathartic release for me.