JP, who co-wrote two songs on the new album.
Julia opened up about the type of relationships she was in before her one with
JP. She said, “I was very drawn to drama and toxicity and to a certain way that I thought love was supposed to be. I thought that because I am who I am, I deserved a certain type of love, and I was so wrong.”
“Then you spend every single day with someone for an entire year that is wonderful and loving and communicative and meets you halfway … I got to fall in love in a very weird situation. I’m very grateful,” she added.
Courtesy JP SaxeJP Saxe often has to begin the explanation for his Grammy-nominated song ‘If the World Was Ending’ with an apology of sorts.He had begun dreaming up a hypothetical situation back in July of 2019 when a 7.1 earthquake rumbled through Los Angeles. Later while mulling over the tremors, he plucked the unused lyric “if the world was ending, you’d come over, right?” from his journal. Toying with the line, he decided to save it for a songwriting session scheduled for a few weeks later with Julia Michaels, who helped pen pop bops “Sorry” by Justin Bieber and Dua Lipa’s “Pretty Please.”During the session, Saxe and Michaels began spinning a tale of two people reacting to an earthquake and wondering if they should reconnect, hammering out the song in just a few hours.Already stoked to be collaborating with the “most influential songwriter of our time,” as Saxe describes Michaels, the day would beco