"The song is making people feel closer to themselves and to the people they love," he says. It all started with a DM. Julia Michaels and JP Saxe, the latter then newly signed to Arista Records, had yet to meet each other last year, when the former shared a clip on her Instagram of Saxe's 2018 song "25 in Barcelona." Within minutes, the two started DMing to schedule a writing session. "Coincidentally, I was on a road trip with friends talking about how I thought Julia had revolutionized pop music," Saxe says of the artist who broke through with her top 15 Billboard Hot 100 hit "Issues" in 2017. "And as I'm having this conversation, I get a notification on my phone saying Julia has mentioned me in a story." The pair linked up in Los