클라라 메이 Clara May
Solo
Vocal
미국 Age 26
키 · 몸무게: 172.8cm · 58kg
출생지: 미국 테네시 프랭클린
음악스타일: 컨트리 팝, 청춘 서사형
멘토: Kelsea Ballerini, Carrie Underwood
관심사: 사람들의 추억과 성장 이야기를 노래로 기록하기
성격: ENFP · 밝음, 낙천성, 공감력, 자유로움
평상시 모습: 기타를 들고 가사 메모, 카페 작업, 친구들과 로드트립 계획
취미: 승마, 필름 카메라 촬영, 캠핑
Clara May, A Bright Country-Pop Storyteller Turning Summer Memories Into Song
Clara May is a warm and expressive country-pop artist with a bright, open-hearted storytelling style.Her music captures the emotional colors of youth, small-town memories, and the roads that shape who we become.
In “Backseat July,” Clara looks back on a summer love that never fully disappeared, even as life moved forward in different directions. With a free-spirited sense of nostalgia and a deeply empathetic voice, she turns old photographs, radio songs, gravel roads, and rearview lights into a heartfelt reflection on growing up, letting go, and still smiling at what once mattered.
대표곡
Backseat July
Backseat July
We were seventeen on a gravel road
Windows down and nowhere to go
Your old Chevy rattled every mile
But somehow it made me smile
We'd chase the sunset past the county line
Talk about forever like we had the time
A hundred dreams painted in the sky
Back when we were you and I
Funny how a town stays the same
While everybody changes
Backseat July
Still lives in my mind
Like a radio song I can't leave behind
Those streetlight nights
Burning so bright
We thought the world was ours to find
Now every summer wind blows me back
To a photograph fading in the dash
Backseat July
You're still alive
Somewhere between then and tonight
Now you're married somewhere out west
Got a little girl and a different address
I heard your name and I smiled awhile
Thinking about that old county mile
And me, I'm doing alright these days
Writing little songs on café stages
Funny how life takes different roads
But some memories never let go
Time keeps moving down the line
But some hearts never lose the signs
Backseat July
Still lives in my mind
Like a radio song I can't leave behind
Those streetlight nights
Burning so bright
We thought the world was ours to find
Now every summer wind blows me back
To a photograph fading in the dash
Backseat July
You're still alive
Somewhere between then and tonight
I don't miss you the way I did
I just miss who we were back then
Backseat July
Still rides with me tonight
Like headlights dancing through the pines
Those small-town dreams
Aren't gone it seems
They're just hiding in the rearview lights
And when the radio sings that line
I swear for a moment you're by my side
Backseat July
Never said goodbye
Just drove on through the rest of my life
Some Summers Never Really Say Goodbye
“Backseat July” is a song I wrote about one of those memories that still feels warm, even after life has moved on.
I wanted this song to feel like driving with the windows down, hearing an old radio song, and suddenly being seventeen again for just a moment. It’s not really about wanting to go back. It’s more about being grateful for who we were, for the dreams we had, and for the people who helped make those years feel so alive.
I think some memories stay with us in a gentle way.They don’t hurt like they used to, but they still glow somewhere in the rearview mirror.
I hope “Backseat July” brings you back to a summer, a road, a person, or a version of yourself that you can remember with a smile.And I hope it reminds you that even the roads we left behind can still carry a little light.
Clara May Photo Album
