Rather than brood in the silence of a now-empty house, he presses play on the tape-deck-static-soundtrack to the rest of his life. He doesn’t take the opportunity to pity himself, as those opportunities come far too frequently in life, admitting that he “was a loser.” Instead, on that fateful Thanksgiving Day, he is grateful for the life that he lives, the connection he made (however impermanent it was) and the boundless future that lies before him. With all of the charming quirk of the opening credits of a Michael Cera movie and the familiarity of a record that has collected decades worth of dust, Mat Davidson sits on the floor examining the state of his life at the end of a relationship in “Young God (gotta lotta feeling),” the first single from Twain’s upcoming 2019 release. Pressing play, it could be any number of your favorite songs as the white noise gives way to a more intentional, more meaningful sound. The static buzz from a tape deck signals endless possibility. As the song comes to an end, the last lines tie it all together in one final confession, "I'm halfway round the world in Barcelona / Tryna feel my world expanding / Like none of it was built around you / This wasn't supposed to be about you." It's a battle of the mind and the heart, and as Saxe sings his breath-taking voice echos the deep emotions he feels within. Traveling while having someone on your mind is an experience in and of itself, and the balance between trying to enjoy the moments while also wishing that person was were there alongside of you, can easily taint them. As seen in "The Few Things" Saxe has a way of accurately expressing universal feelings that at one time seemed to only find their existence in our heads. The plan for spending his 25th birthday in Barcelona, was for a celebratory time with friends immersed in a new culture, but within the good times is a longing for someone who isn't there.
With "25 in Barcelona" Saxe beautifully sings us a confessional song, accompanied by an acoustic guitar, that seemed to accidentally happen. But, as his track record proves, the best writers have an innate gift for presenting their innermost feelings as universal sentiments.You may know JP Saxe from last year's breakout song " The Few Things," but he is far from a one-hit wonder. “As songwriters, we have the blessing and the curse of really intense introspection at all times,” Saxe tells Apple Music. This laidback, hammock-swaying lullaby is a love song-albeit one dedicated to the art of songwriting itself. (This pledge to commitment in the face of crisis only turned more poignant after it was revealed Saxe and Michaels fell in love for real while writing it together.) His 2021 collaboration with country star Maren Morris, “Line by Line,” further entrenched Saxe’s in pop’s upper echelons. Like his patiently paced piano ballads, Saxe’s first major success was a slow-burn triumph: Initially released in late 2019, his dramatic, Finneas-produced duet with Julia Michaels, “If the World Was Ending,” crept up the international charts over the course of 2020 as it became the pre-eminent love song of the pandemic. But where many aspiring tunesmiths catch their big break writing for more famous names, Saxe’s delicate fusion of modern pop, R&B, country, and post-Coldplay indie romanticism has drawn A-listers onto his own records. “To this day, I don’t feel closer to myself anywhere than sitting at an instrument.” That intense soul-searching goes a long way to explaining how this Toronto-bred talent-born Jonathan Percy Starker Saxe in 1993-has connected with such a wide, genre-spanning audience since he moved to L.A. “As a weirdo kid growing up in Canada with too many feelings and not very many friends, songs were the first place I really figured out what it meant to have a relationship with myself, and have a dialogue with myself,” JP Saxe tells Apple Music.
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