Just after dropping his debut studio album, Dangerous Levels of Introspection, JP Saxe sat down with Audacy’s Julia and shared all the details behind his music and what we can look forward to next.
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For Saxe, his song creation process always starts with a conversation. He explains that he came to the album’s title and title track after speaking with a close friend about starting his life in Los Angeles and “getting recklessly nostalgic.” Saxe says, “At some point in the conversation I just kind of said these might be ‘dangerous levels of introspection…’ and then she stopped me and said, ‘I think that should go in the song.’”
Well now it’s all history, and now JP has an entire album based on this conversation. Wondering if the title felt “pretentious,” Saxe considered changing it at one point, but tells us, “I just couldn’t come up with anything that felt quite as all-encompassing…of the album.”
“The truth is, all of these songs kind of exists at that point in emotional analysis where it might cross the line of bringing you closer to your emotions and just go into absolute life destruction.”
On this new project, Saxe shares that he is “leaning into the being vulnerable. I’m leaning away from being pretentious. Because I think where vulnerability and art becomes pretentious is when art is trying to make you think something about it. If I’m trying to impress you with something, to me that’s whereas an artist we’re losing.”
Saxe is resolute when he says, “I want to share something with you, not make you think something about me.
The singer also opened up about his relationship with Julia Michaels and told us that he “falls more in love with her every day.” The duo met the day they came together to write “If the World Was Ending.”
Now coming up on two years together Saxe shared, “I think, for every artist in a relationship, whether your partner is a creative or not they're probably a person who's going to hear what you're making.”
He concludes, “You know you're going to driving over the studio listening to what you made that day me and i'm going to be like baby you got to hear this, or like baby, do you like this, even if they're not a songwriter I just happened to have the world's most qualified partner.”
Watch JP Saxe’s full interview above.
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