Diandra Interviews JP Saxe: Holding It Together To Hold You
I am really happy for JP Saxe. I remember seeing him when he was an opener’s opener, and introducing himself to a crowd with lines like, “I know many of you are hearing me for the first time.” He is supremely funny, when live, which is why his songs are fascinating because they hunker down on the bigness of love and heartbreak; how either can build or bury a universe of feelings within us. Thus, I was excited to interview him and see the responses of someone who knows how to make virtues as clear as his verses.
Diandra: What is one song of yours that helped you figure out a specific situation or aspect of yourself, and what did it help you figure out?
JP Saxe: Explain You.
“I loved you fully but I’m growing up now. I loved you fully but fully means more now.”
That line helped me understand how love could be over and real at the same time.
JP Saxe – If the World Was Ending (Official Video) ft. Julia Michaels
Diandra: I read you use your journal entries to make your songs, how would you journalize your life right now, in hopes to inspire a song?
JP Saxe: ooooff I dunno yet to be honest. I’m writing a lot about the quarantine, as I’m sure we all are. Maybe in an alternate reality it’d be something like ‘if the world was ending’ again”.. but I’m already with who I want to be with, so it’d be a very different kind of song.
Diandra: What is one truth you have learned about falling in love and one truth you have learned about falling out of it?
JP Saxe: Same truth.. both bring you closer to yourself.
Me: THE POWER OF THAT STATEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Diandra: How would you define being honest with yourself and has music made that process feel easier for you?
JP Saxe: It’s different everyday I think. Music has made it something I have to think about, which I’m grateful for. If I’m not honest in these songs, I’m up on stage lying every night and that wouldn’t be too good for my mental health, I don’t think.
JP Saxe – Same Room (Official Video)
Diandra: How does it feel to become famous for singing about romance, and has that growing fame made you rethink how you see love?
JP Saxe: I love Love. I do think that’d be the case separate from singing about it.. but you never know I guess.
Diandra: What is your favorite childhood memory with music?
JP Saxe: Playing the piano for my grandfather in his music room.
JP Saxe – Women Who Look Like You (Official Video) ft. Guapdad 4000
Diandra: What are some books you’ve read that you think would translate well as a love song?
JP Saxe: The Little Prince. It’d be charming and lovely and all about his rose and it’d be in french, so extra lovely.
Diandra: In honour of Hold It Together, what has been the hardest and the best thing to hold in love and life?
JP Saxe: Letting go is harder than the holding on I think. Letting things be more beautiful than my ability to imagine them being.
JP Saxe – The Few Things (Official Video)
Diandra: Your music speaks a lot to holding onto two feelings, at once, especially if they are contradictory/conflicting. I am going to list a few feelings, and what is another feeling you felt in conjunction with it:
JP Saxe:
Rage– (not sure I’ve ever felt rage)
Confusion– Desire
Love– Loss of control
Sadness– laughter
Wisdom– childishness
Hope– nostalgia
Excitement– fear
Anger– insecurity
Euphoria– silliness
Eagerness– nostalgia
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