Wildflowers

Album: Teen Spirit (2018)
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Songfacts®:

  • Teen Spirit is a 2018 musical drama film that stars Elle Fanning as a shy English teenager named Violet. She enters a local singing competition to pursue her dream of singing and one of the songs she performs is called "Wildflowers."
  • "Wildflowers" was co-written by pop star Carly Rae Jepsen with her longtime collaborator Tavish Crowe. The song was produced by Taylor Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff.
  • It's fitting that Jepsen co-wrote the song, given that she herself first found fame as a result of a singing competition: She finished third on Canadian Idol in 2007.

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