Songfacts®:

• "Cinderella" isn't a fairytale retelling, but rather a wild ride through the mood swings and transient lifestyle Remi Wolf was experiencing while writing her second album, Big Ideas.
  
  "Constant travel and rapid changes led me to feel such a roller coaster of emotion," she explained. "Moving from feeling really insecure to feeling really good to feeling manic and depressed and then feeling OK again, while desperately craving a grounding figure to tell me I was doing a good job."
• There's a sense of self-empowerment too. "This song was me stepping in as my own fairy godmother telling myself that I was in control," Wolf said.
• The chorus is a darkly humorous twist on the classic fairytale.
  
  Like Cinderella making babies on the company's dime
  We're making pennies out of paper, better find a new slime
  
  Who says the put-upon stepsister didn't have a little fun (and maybe make some mischief) after all those chores?
• Remi Wolf co-wrote and co-produced the song with her regular producer, Solomonophonic. They laid it down at Electric Lady Studios in New York City with the aim of creating a '70s nostalgia sound that still feels like a record made today.
• After Wolf initially made the song with just herself and Solomonophonic, she brought in some horn players to "round out the sauce," including Leon Michels on saxophone. A producer and multi-instrumentalist, Michels played saxophone in Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and has also performed with The Black Keys and Norah Jones (he produced her 2024 Vision album).
• Remi Wolf co-directed the video with Ragan Henderson. Look out for a cameo from Canadian singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco, who plays an ice cream man.