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MARVIN Exclusive: Claire Rosinkranz Finds Her Ground on My Lover

Claire Rosinkranz has always written like someone chasing the feeling before the language. But on My Lover, the California-born songwriter sounds different—steadier, sharper, and far less interested in softening the edges of what she means. The record captures Rosinkranz in a moment of emotional recalibration, where youthful instinct collides with the clarity that only a few years of living can bring. At 22, she’s no longer simply documenting the rush of growing up; she’s interrogating it. In this MARVIN Exclusive, Rosinkranz reflects on vulnerability, creative ego, the lessons learned from stadium stages, and the quiet confidence shaping the My Lover era.

MARVIN: My Lover doesn’t feel shy. It feels decisive. What flipped for you emotionally between the last chapter and this one? What were you finally brave enough to say out loud?

CLAIRE: My last album I wrote when I was 17 and 18, and now I’m 22. I went through experiences—some of which I wrote about on this project—that made me really self-reflect and mature. I feel like I was standing in a more grounded place and had a better vision for the things that I wanted to say and write about, and the things that I learned.

MARVIN: There’s a confidence on this record that borders on reckless in the best way. Were you chasing that freedom, or did it find you?

CLAIRE: I think that I’ve been living in that freedom ever since I was a really little girl. Obviously there are ebbs and flows in life, so there are times where you have to fight a little bit harder for it, but I feel like for the most part it’s something that is a part of me and just comes out in a lot of my music.

MARVIN: You’ve always made vulnerability feel light on its feet. On My Lover, it hits harder. Was there a moment when you realized this album was going to cut deeper than anything you’ve released before?

CLAIRE: I feel like I was discovering the vulnerability of this project with the music as I was making it, song by song. I think now, looking back at the project, I feel like it’s only the beginning of how honest I can be.

MARVIN: You’ve worked with ROLE MODEL, who also leans into emotional chaos with precision. When you walk into a collaboration now, what does someone have to bring to match your energy?

CLAIRE: My ideal situation for collaborating is working with a friend who I have chemistry with, and someone who is very sensitive to the music and understands what it wants to communicate when we are in the room together. I also look for someone with no ego. Ego leaves the room when we start making the music, because that is a very difficult thing to have while being vulnerable, and you need to be vulnerable in order to be honest.

MARVIN: Touring with Maroon 5 means seeing pop at stadium scale. Did that experience make you hungrier for bigger stages, or more protective of your own lane?

CLAIRE: It absolutely gets me excited for the days that I get to play my own shows like that, but it also really made me appreciate smaller rooms and the intimacy of being that close to your audience and experiencing such a crazy, tangible energy that you can’t get in a really big room. It really made me appreciate both opportunities.

MARVIN: If My Lover opens the door to a dream collaboration, who are you texting first? And are we making a love song, or something that burns a little?

CLAIRE: If I get to dream really, really big, I would say ABBA. I would like to write something that is melancholy—I feel like they do that really well—and I love the tension between something that is beautiful, sad, tragic, and hopeful.

MARVIN: What does the My Lover era look like live? Bigger rooms? Rawer moments? What should fans expect from the next tour?

CLAIRE: It will be a mashup of rooms. I definitely want to be able to bring the garden of feelings and emotions that you experience through this album into the live setup. I think that will require more intentional, thoughtful, and intimate pieces within the set.

MARVIN: Every era demands a new version of you. Who is Claire in the My Lover chapter, and who did you have to outgrow to get here?

CLAIRE: The person that I had to outgrow was the more free, reckless, all-over-the-place person. I don’t think that I have lost that freedom and spontaneity, but I think it is now paired with being more grounded and sensitive to all parts of myself—having respect, awareness, and gratitude for all of the parts of myself and loving all of those parts of myself.

What emerges from My Lover isn’t a reinvention so much as a deeper calibration of who Claire Rosinkranz has always been. The spontaneity that first defined her music hasn’t disappeared—it’s simply been sharpened by experience, reflection, and a clearer sense of self. As she prepares to translate the album’s “garden of feelings” onto stages both intimate and expansive, Rosinkranz sounds less concerned with proving anything and more focused on honoring every version of herself that got her here. If this chapter is any indication, My Lover isn’t a conclusion. It’s the moment honesty really begins.