i’m pretty sure that having a second person to bounce ideas off of has permanently altered the way i go about making music. baby girl here, they say i add a little colour to the palette but it wasn’t always that way. there was a time i wouldn’t let anyone tell me shit about how i wrote a song. on first glance that might seem like me being sure of myself but in hindsight i think i was just immature. was too defensive.

it’s probably a good thing to be a bit too proud at first when you’re making stuff cause fuck is it ever hard to not hate your creations. luckily once you’ve made enough stuff you get to a point where a song is a song and you know you’ll make more so why not experiment? cole has completely different ways of writing melodies and structuring songs than i do so now his best tips echo in my brain no matter what i do: simplify this chorus, that thing is too wordy, do not say the word “clock”, etc. at this point i honestly can’t imagine not having his input on anything i make. it feels like we’re a unit - is that what being a band is all about? telling each other that track 12 is 0.2 dB too loud and whooping and clapping when it fixes the whole harmony stack? idk but damn does it feel good.