“Well I think I’ve gotten really good at hiding behind people, and when you do that, you forget that you have a voice, and sometimes it just gets lost. And here we are!” In fact, writing "Issues" was the moment she realized she wanted to become a solo artist. I’m uncomfortable with the idea of someone singing such a personal song of mine. “When I write for other people, or with other people, I tend to put a little bit of myself in everything that I write, but not this much. A lot of the times I want to scream what I want to say, and it won’t come out, like my mind won’t work with my mouth sometimes, so basically everything I wanted to say but couldn’t say, I put in ‘Issues,’ and ‘Issues’ is me and my boyfriend, and my relationship, (but mostly me) in three minutes, seriously.” Other artists wanted to take the song, but she kept it for herself. I tend to be a very non-confrontational person, so a lot of the time he will just fight at me, and I just kind of listen. “I actually wrote it about a fight I had with my boyfriend. “Issues” stemmed from an argument with her significant other. Just last night, Michaels announced she’s releasing another solo single, “Uh Huh” on June 2, and her first EP is well on its way.īelow, Michaels spills her creative genius with. (They sampled the baseline from the band’s “Psycho Killer.”)
One of her most recently-released works is Selena Gomez’s “Bad Liar,” which actually sounds quite similar to “Issues.” Michaels teamed up with her frequent collaborator Justin Trainer and Ian Kirkpatrick for the single, and even fulfilled her “ biggest dream on this earth” by working with Talking Heads’ David Byrne.
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