Jun 16, 2020 - 9:00 am
It’s late May, months deep into the country’s extended period of self isolation, but Justin Tranter coming to me live via Zoom from their Hollywood home says they’ve just written one of the best songs of their career. Considering that the veteran songwriter has helped pen some of the biggest hits of the past decade including Justin Bieber’s Sorry, Imagine Dragons Believer and Selena Gomez’s 2019 chart-topper Lose You To Love Me those words carry real, certifiable weight.
But it’s not hard to believe them when you look at Tranter s track record just ask Britney Spears, Fall Out Boy, Halsey, Bebe Rexha, Nick Jonas, Cardi B, Gwen Stefani and Janelle Monáe what they think about their GRAMMY-nominated collaborator, a writer whose lyrics are not easily quantifiable beyond, simply, singular and necessary. And it’s equally easy to believe Tranter when they say they’ve actually been artistically thriving lately I know that saying
california who s been cursin my name cause i found me a better lover in the uk hey, hey, until i made my getaway one, two, three, they re gonna run back to me cause i m the best baby that they never gotta keep one, two, three, they re gonna run back to me they always wanna come, but they never wanna leave ex s and the oh, oh, oh s they haunt me like gho-o-osts they want me to make em oh, oh, oh they won t let go ex s and the oh, oh, oh s they haunt me like gho-o-osts they want me to make em oh, oh, oh they won t let go they won t let go they won t let go