Fletcher posed for and gave an interview for Coveteur. Photos from the photoshoot, and behind the scenes photos have been added to the gallery. The full interview can be read below by clicking “continue reading”.
Photoshoot
Behind the Scenes
Fletcher is finding the antidote to her chaos. The singer talks self-love, sapphic yearning, and her new album.
Cari Fletcher has been in South America for one week and has already signed twelve boobs. “Pairs or individual boobs?” I ask with as much journalistic professionalism as I can. “Pairs”. Fresh off of performing at Lollapalooza in Argentina—kicking off her first tour of South America—I am speaking to her the day after her 30th birthday. How does an international pop star celebrate a milestone birthday abroad? A self-care day spent eating a luxurious breakfast, hiking in nature, and journaling for two hours to “set an intention of nourishment and acceptance”. We both agree this sounds like a quintessentially “Pisces” way to ring in the new solar year. “And I’m also playing a show tonight because I’m a Gemini moon”. When I tell her I’m also a Gemini moon, she says with sincerity, “Oh, I’m so sorry. It’s so chaotic. Fuck”. Amen. Looking ahead to the show, she adds, “It serves as the flip side—fun, rowdy, loud—and I had my peaceful nature day already. So we get it all”.
This duality summarizes the electricity between her personal life and her musical persona. In previous interviews, she’s differentiated between who she is as “Cari” versus “Fletcher”. Cari is more emotional, an anxious overthinker, a homebody. Fletcher is the powerhouse we see on stage—unbridled and unfiltered. I ask her, if Cari and Fletcher were a yin and yang, what is the dot that is always contained within the other? “I think the throughline between the two is this essence of expressing truth”. She uses the anthem of sapphic pettiness, “Becky’s So Hot”, as an example, saying, “At the time, calling my ex-girlfriend’s new girlfriend hot was just true in the moment. On the flip side, Cari was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know if that’s something I should say,’ and I just sat in with all of those emotions, leaving space for the complexity of truth”.
She’s come to the conclusion that whether or not people agree with Fletcher’s truth, it’s about honoring those moments in all their chaotic glory. “The dot that’s in between the two,” she concludes, “is unfiltered rawness”.
With the release of her second studio album, In Search of The Antidote, Coveteur sat down with Fletcher to hear her unfiltered truths on the conception of the album, her relationship with her fans, and the root of sapphic yearning.
