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Julia Wolf pulled up to the Genius office to break down her song “In My Room.” The Scro produced track appears on her latest project 'PRESSURE.' On today’s episode of Verified, the singer-songwriter dives into why she’s especially proud of this record, how she doesn’t always handle her emotions well, and how growing up in a “spooky house” continues to influence her music, and more!

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00:00This is peak Julia brain. If he doesn't call, if even his tone is like weird or the text is a little
00:08off, I immediately think, okay, you hate me, that's fine. But now I really need to know like
00:16what is going on and so then I just start fantasizing about the most extreme thing I
00:22could do to just get the answer.
00:30I wrote this song in my room back when I was in New York. At the time, I was working with our
00:38producer Skro, who was living in LA. I just had a little voice note of me playing it on the guitar
00:45and then I sent it to him. He reproduced the whole thing as Skro magically does. It took some shifting
00:52of the parts, but like for the most part, the song came out kind of in one word vomit. I've been making
00:58music for years and to have the most vulnerable song be the one that's like doing the best is
01:06just really cool because it tells me, okay, I need to snap out of it sometimes and get out of my head
01:11and just like say the things on my mind.
01:15I want your things in my room. I miss you all of the time.
01:21My brain just cannot accept if someone is saying that they like me or whatever they want to date
01:29me. It doesn't matter. I think it helps me if I see their things in my room, like we're creating space
01:34for each other and he's choosing my room to be a safe space and like I can look at these things in a
01:40tangible way and be like, okay, this is real. Like I'm not just making everything up. I stalk myself
01:47on the internet just to see what you will find. Of course, when I'm with someone new, I'm like,
01:54I need to put myself in his shoes, see how he is viewing me. And then what can I immediately
02:00delete, rearrange, whatever I need to do to like not get him to run away. Just don't Google because
02:07that is a tough pill to swallow that you cannot change.
02:11I want your things in my room. I miss you all of the time. You make it look so easy,
02:21leaving everything behind. I need you to tell me you feel sick without me. Like I need you to be dying
02:29if I'm not in the room with you, but you're making it look so easy and I just can't relate to that in
02:35any capacity because it's not in me to be that way is torture to see someone make it look so easy.
02:44I like when it's dark October will cure me. I grew up in a very spooky household and my mom was into
02:53all things gory, gothic. And so now I just take comfort the autumnal months and just kind of anything
03:01that reminds me of my younger self, I guess. I'm walking these woods. I'm high 30 or 13.
03:11Well, I'm in my 30s now and it just feels ridiculous that I still can't grasp any of my emotions. It just
03:19takes me back to being younger, being a teenager, where I felt the exact same way. I'm literally still
03:26the same girl that I was walking through the woods, like trying to find that grounding somehow amidst
03:32all this confusion. Not asking for much, man. Thought maybe you'd call me. I'd slit my own throat just to
03:42see if you'd mourn me. This is me constantly, like how I just think about things. My default setting is
03:53like, I don't feel good enough. I don't feel enough for this person. And so this song is definitely a
04:00reflection of that side of myself. And unfortunately, that is why that line exists.
04:06You look so cool, getting high, high. No handlebars, you wanna fly. You look so cool,
04:21I wanna die. Is it too soon to say what's on my mind? You're living life with, you know,
04:34your hands off the handlebars and you're just going with the flow and I'm not that girl.
04:38And it just makes me feel the lack within and just like the self doubt. He looks hot when he's smoking.
04:47Okay. It doesn't matter if it's weed, it's cigarettes, whatever. He looks so hot. I am not that.
04:56I felt particularly proud of this one just because some of the lyrics are so revealing. I definitely
05:03was texting everyone I knew about like, is this too much to say? Is this too embarrassing? But it's cool
05:10to see that like, those lines are the ones that resonated with everyone.
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