What would you say to people who think that technology is gonna lead to, like, a musical downfall? One thing that you do with your music, you use a lot of different electronic music or musical technology, and there seems to be this fear that technology is gonna take over music or take over people’s lives in a really bad way, but you’ve used a lot of it in your songs and it seems like you really enjoy the possibilities that can come with it. So it was just kind of trying to throw you into that feeling into as real of a way as it was for me. And there were those few moments where the lyrics of the song matched up with exactly what Anthony and Dina were saying to one another. It felt like a conversation that you have kind of throughout a day you spend with someone you’re in love with, so the idea for the video was to weave the song into a day that this couple was spending together, working through it. And that’s a conversation that doesn’t happen, like, you sit down and have that conversation. The feeling that it came from was such a specific conversation, it was almost verbatim things I said in moments of that relationship. I wanted to pair it visually with something that would…let me rephrase that: The way we got to that particular video was kind of just digging in to what the moment of that song was. JP: The idea for the video on “The Few Things” came after the song. WMXM: So with that one, was that something that came together after you wrote the song, or while you were writing it did you have this vision in your head, that you were like “I want this video to look like this”? JP: Yeah, “The Few Things” I co-directed with Dina Shihabi, who is the co-star of the video. WMXM: Very nice! With other videos, your name showed up as a producer of either “The Few Things” or “Changed.” So when that song became something that I was gonna put out, we had all this footage of the whole experience so it just kind of organically was there. And I went with my best friend who is a filmmaker who was just filming while we were there because he likes to be filming, so he just – because we were there, he filmed a lot of the trip, he filmed a lot of me writing that song. JP: I really did just go to Barcelona for my 25th birthday ‘cause I didn’t want to be f**king sad on my birthday ‘cause it was right after a breakup in my life, and then I ended up writing that song while being there. I know “25 in Barcelona,” you weren’t expecting that to even become a music video. JP: Which video specifically? ‘Cause I’ve had different involvement in different videos. How much input do you have when those are being created? And are the visuals of the videos something that you think about when you’re writing the song, or is it something that comes to mind mostly after you hear the finished product?
WMXM: Also, with the music videos that accompany these songs, they fit with the songs very well. I used to think “Okay, here’s a feeling I’m having, how can I song-ify that feeling?” whereas now, I think I’ve removed that step in the process and it’s just “Here’s a feeling I’m having, how do I put it in its purest form in a song so it doesn’t even feel like you’re necessarily hearing something that’s been made into a song, it just sounds as genuine as it can possibly be.” I think when I first started writing songs, I was really concerned with them feeling like “songs” in the traditional sense. That isn’t something that came naturally. Is that something you always wanted to do when you wrote music, or is that something that just kind of came naturally when you started writing songs? WMXM: A lot of your music is very personal, especially with the lyrics, you seem to put a lot of emotion into your songs. Many thanks to JP for taking the time to talk about his music and the importance of transparency and emotional honesty within the creative process. Paul, Minnesota, JP Saxe sat down with WMXM for a phone interview.
Before he took the stage at Amsterdam Bar & Hall in St.
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