00:00Hey, I'm Julia Michaels.
00:01Are you ready to spill it?
00:04I brought this bag today.
00:06This is more like studio vibes,
00:08less like I'm going to like a fancy dinner vibe.
00:11I sometimes have it just in my car,
00:15like a survival bag, almost.
00:17What does my bag mean to me?
00:19Well, one, it's beautiful.
00:22Two, it's convenient.
00:24You know, it kind of sucks being a woman
00:26because we never have pockets for anything ever.
00:30Can you see this?
00:31No pockets, which is frustrating.
00:34So necessity.
00:37Would I say my bag or my home is more organized?
00:40I would say neither.
00:42Marie Kondo would probably murder me.
00:45Hey Marie, what's in the bag?
00:47All right.
00:48So first, because of course this has to be on top,
00:52I always have Hot Cheetos with me.
00:54Normally I would have a whole bag with a chip clip.
00:57I really should be in like Hot Cheetos Anonymous.
00:59I'm trying to cut back.
01:01I always have snacks in my bag.
01:03I have really low blood pressure.
01:05I always need something salty or something like that around me.
01:09Right now I have pumpkin seeds in my car
01:11that are unbelievably salty.
01:13It would probably hurt most people.
01:15I have my wallet.
01:17I swear to God, I did not mean to wear all Burberry today,
01:21but it just so happened that that's what happened.
01:23I'm broke.
01:25Most of everything in my bag is functional.
01:28I have generalized anxiety, so I like to be prepared for everything at all times.
01:34Oh, I always have this with me.
01:36Studio photos for me, especially while making this album, have been a must.
01:41I suck at documenting anything.
01:44If I want to take a picture of a moment, I always have this with me.
01:48And I always have extra film in case I run out.
01:53I can't even tell you how many Polaroids I have of my fans and I in my house.
01:57Okay, let's see.
01:59What else?
01:59What else?
01:59Oh.
02:01The most quirky item in my bag.
02:03I stopped shaving my armpits like a year ago because societal norms.
02:07And I've found that men's deodorant works so much better when you have armpit hair.
02:13I actually, fun fact, used to steal my boyfriend's Old Spice and I didn't tell him about it.
02:19And then he realized that I had been stealing his Old Spice and he was like,
02:22babe, we gotta get you your own.
02:24This is disgusting.
02:25I was like, no, it's love.
02:27We share everything else, don't we?
02:30I haven't smelt bad in months and I'm very grateful for Old Spice.
02:34Love you.
02:35Please sponsor me.
02:39Sanitizer and my camo mask.
02:42I always have a mask with me and I always have hand sanitizer.
02:47It's funny, I don't think I had used hand sanitizer in my entire life.
02:52I always thought it was such an obsolete kind of thing.
02:55Like I would see it at a grocery store and be like, they still make this?
02:58And now I use it every day, sometimes 30 times a day.
03:02I don't usually wear makeup.
03:04This is a special day for Refinery29.
03:07But if I'm gonna go somewhere quickly, then I'll just throw a little dash of some lip liner
03:13and concealer on.
03:15I always say this name wrong, so if I say it wrong, I apologize.
03:19Clue de Poe is the best concealer.
03:22I just dab, dab, dab, blot, blot, blot, and I'm ready to go.
03:27And then I use Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk lip liner and I just put it all over my lips
03:32and I make my lips real over-lined, like full-on 90s vibes.
03:38If I could carry an item in my bag that doesn't fit my dog.
03:41He's a hundred pounds and he's beautiful.
03:44Hi, Sam.
03:45Love you, boy.
03:46And then I pretty much don't go anywhere without these.
03:50These are my super scrunchies.
03:52It's dirty, but I own probably about 20 of these in different colors.
03:59And they're the best, especially when you haven't washed your hair in like eight days,
04:04like some people I know.
04:07Then you can just like put your hair up and just go about your day and it looks real cute.
04:13What else is it?
04:14Oh, my lip pencil sharpener, which hasn't been cleaned in about two decades.
04:20I'm just going to hide that back there.
04:22I'm a pretty simple person.
04:24I don't really keep a lot of like random stuff in my bag.
04:28I'm very much like what I need that day is what I have that day.
04:34Gum.
04:35Always gum.
04:36Gum is life.
04:37It's actually been one of my favorite things actually during the pandemic because
04:42I used to go to the studio and you would bring out gum and it would be gone.
04:46Like everybody would take a piece.
04:48But now post pandemic, you bring out gum.
04:51No one wants to touch it.
04:52So I get to keep a pack all to myself now.
04:56Lastly is my SM7.
04:58And yes, I have it in a janky little bag.
05:04But she's okay.
05:06She's okay.
05:08She's okay.
05:09I have this with me everywhere I go.
05:12I actually just keep this in my bag just anyway, which is really weird.
05:16I don't know why I do that.
05:18Attachment issues.
05:19It's okay.
05:20A lot of songs on this album have been recorded on this SM7.
05:25When the pandemic happened and I had to make my album, I was so scared of going to a studio
05:30that I
05:31bought my own so I could just plug it in and use my own.
05:33If you're wondering at home, kids, what mic to use.
05:37This is my favorite one.
05:41Now you get to awkwardly put, you see me put this back in this bag.
05:50I feel like a nice purse and a nice shoe can really make you feel like a little bit more
05:55like
05:57confident.
05:58Can you see these?
05:58Just standing next to it, I'm like...
06:03Honestly, for the most part, my fans know everything about me.
06:06So there isn't really anything that would be in there that would surprise them.
06:10I wish there was.
06:10I wish there was like some vibrator or something.
06:14But there's not.
06:15I probably should start carrying one of those.
06:21Bye!
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