Julia Michaels - Inner Monologue Part 1 & Part 2

[Ty]

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Per the printed version of this July's Rolling Stone, Julia Michaels' "debut LP is due this fall."

Confirmed tracks:
Intro
"Anxiety"
"Cartier"
"Shouldn't Have Said It"
"What the Fck Just Happened"

It's not clear if the current single "Jump" and an untitled demo mentioned below will make the final cut.

Julia Michaels Gets Real: Inside the Hitmaker’s Debut LP

Pop’s new queen of heartbreak and lust stares down her anxiety, onstage and in the studio

By JOE LEVY

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/julia-michaels-interview-new-album-695128/

So Michaels is fighting back by talking about it — in therapy, in interviews — and singing about it. “Julia, calm down,” she tells herself on the intro to her debut LP, due out this fall. “Breathe. It’s gonna be okay. And Julia, hold on.” It’s more Plastic Ono Band than popping bottles, and on a track entitled simply “Anxiety,” she lays her problems bare: “I try my best to be just social,” she sings. “I make all these plans with friends and hope they call and cancel/Then I overthink about the things I’m missing.” On a demo cut this spring, the song is a campfire strum supported by a heartbeat bassline, as Michaels talks about being unable to sleep through the night, being told she could fix herself with medication (“I wish it was that simple”), and hearing from all her exes that she’s hard to deal with.

That means her new songs draw not just on feelings, but details, from her life, with minimal alteration. On the stuttering stunner “Cartier,” she walks into a jewelry store and is overwhelmed by the memory of an ex who gave her a bracelet. In reality, she says, it was a ring: “I didn’t want to use ‘ring,’ because that sounds very adult, like I was married,” she says, then laughs. “And that’s not the case, obviously.”

Two other songs about break-ups — “Shouldn’t Have Said It” (which lifts off into a trancy groove from a blunt “Well f**k you, I’m leaving”) and “What the Fck Just Happened” — capture the blend of pop smarts and personal testimony that Michaels is now after, songs that are at once specific and universal. “I want to make something that people could relate to and something that is very me,” Michaels says. “Very personal and in-depth.”

[gbaby]

Here for it. After "Jump", I am very curious to see what else she has up her sleeve.

[Juan Carlos]

Out next week.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsx-SWrhF6V

[Active Aggressive]

Very excited!

[Troublemaker]

Jan 18, 2019 12:36:08 GMT -5 Active Aggressive said:

Very excited!

Why though?

[Active Aggressive]

Jan 18, 2019 12:53:51 GMT -5 Troublemaker said:

Jan 18, 2019 12:36:08 GMT -5 Active Aggressive said:

Very excited!

Why though?

[Ty]

Wow. I feel like it's coming out of nowhere. Excited for it though!

[Lumi]

I'm ready!

[thezatch]

Another EP? Gimme the full-length LP, Jules. I hope the label has a plan for the singles and goes more than 1-2 deep. There were quite a few gems on her last EP ("Make It Up To You", "Pink") that could have SMASHED.

http://instagram.com/p/Bsy2NffBLq0

Excited for the tour though! I'll definitely have to get tickets to the Cleveland show.

[Ty]

No NY/PA dates? Girl, bye.

[Juan Carlos]

She revealed the tracklist on Instagram. There will be six songs and two of them are collaborations with Selena Gomez and Niall Horan, respectively.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs1MtXsBB4S

[vithor]

Hope that Selena song gets enough attention to get her another hit.

[Lumi]

This is such a disappointment. I only like "Deep" and "What A Time" :/

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

I'm kind of over her overly wordy, amelodic shtick.

[HEADOFTHEPACK]

Jan 23, 2019 22:08:13 GMT -5 vithor said:

Hope that Selena song gets enough attention to get her another hit.

Not likely, it's horrid.

[vithor]

Jan 25, 2019 12:37:19 GMT -5 HEADOFTHEPACK said:

Jan 23, 2019 22:08:13 GMT -5 vithor said:

Hope that Selena song gets enough attention to get her another hit.

Not likely, it's horrid.

Yeah. I posted that before it came out. Lol

[SHOOTER]

Is she even trying to "sing"? She sounds like pure shit on this EP!

[thezatch]

This is not going to convince me to buy a ticket to the tour, Jules. What the heck was this? "Happy" grew on me a little bit and "Into You" is cute and all but.... *sigh*

Where have all the polished bops gone? It's like she gave us an EP full of "Uh-Huh"s that we didn't want or need.

[Active Aggressive]

Man, I love this woman. She is such a breath of fresh air - a true artist. I like this better overall than the first EP, as much as I loved Make It Up To You, Issues, and Make It Up To You. Also, I don't get the complaints about her voice, unless people are hearing her for the first time with this EP.

1. What A Time (absolutely BEAUTIFUL. I hope this at least gets movie placement)
2. Into You
3. Apple
4. Deep
5. Anxiety
6. Happy

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

What's with her putting her mouth on the mic when she sings so that the vocal sounds smooshed and muffled? Like, is that a thing?

[Ty]

The whole EP is a disaster. I could barely finish it ("Happy" and "Deep" being the ones I detest the most). Her first EP is way more dynamic and pleasing. I haven't gotten tired of "Make It Up to You" and "Pink" yet.

I don't know what she wants to do with her singing career but stuffs like this clearly ain't working.

[SHOOTER]

Jan 26, 2019 18:49:27 GMT -5 Ty said:

I haven't gotten tired of "Make It Up to You" and "Pink" yet.

My two faves from her first EP; songs with actual vocals!

[Active Aggressive]

Jan 27, 2019 4:19:55 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

Jan 26, 2019 18:49:27 GMT -5 Ty said:

I haven't gotten tired of "Make It Up to You" and "Pink" yet.

My two faves from her first EP; songs with actual vocals!

LOL the vocals on those songs, especially Pink, are no better than the ones on the new EP.

[SHOOTER]

Jan 27, 2019 12:13:04 GMT -5 Active Aggressive said:

Jan 27, 2019 4:19:55 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

My two faves from her first EP; songs with actual vocals!

LOL the vocals on those songs, especially Pink, are no better than the ones on the new EP.

[shrk314]

Jan 25, 2019 23:45:14 GMT -5 YourFaveIsAFlop said:

What's with her putting her mouth on the mic when she sings so that the vocal sounds smooshed and muffled? Like, is that a thing?

I think the vocals are just super-compressed

[Active Aggressive]

She sounds very similar live. Look...it's clear most people here aren't fan of her vocal quirks/affectations, so it's weird to me that I keep seeing the same complaints over and over again. Then again, this is Pulse.

[Deleted]

Some of these songs sound like the female version of Hobo Johnson. Mess.

[Choco]

The song with Selena had potential... but the end result is tragic. And I like most of her previous material.

[Active Aggressive]

Come through with the validation, King Jack!

[Jack]

Jan 29, 2019 15:33:44 GMT -5 Active Aggressive said:

Come through with the validation, King Jack!

Haha, I mean it's a good point well made. She speaks like she sings, and she's sung like she's sung to greater or lesser degree throughout all her material. It's obviously a polarizing tone. I don't see anybody who liked it on Issues, can take the absolute opposite tack on the new material. It may be slightly more stylized vocally, but it's the same product. If you didn't like it in the past, you're unlikely to like it present or future. So to go through the same reactionary song and dance seems to be dull for the people that do? :/