- 2025-01-25
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MUSIC
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JP Saxe Releases New Song “Safe”
Last week, Canadian singer-songwriter JP Saxe hosted a benefit show called “NY For LA” at New York’s Bowery Ballroom to raise money for those affected by the Los Angeles wildfires.
On the show, he premiered a new song “Safe” and officially released it on January 24, 2025.
The track was written by David Hodges, James Ho, and JP Saxe. Produced by Malay. The accompanying music video was directed by Nicol Biesek.
JP Saxe said of the song, “It’s a strange feeling to be dropping a song about what it means to protect the people we love on this particular week. I guess we don’t really get to decide what our songs are about. I thought it was about emotional safety - about the masculine urge to protect with fighting before listening, and relearning what it really means to make the people we love feel secure around us. Right now it feels like “hey checking on you” texts and donations to the gofundme’s of our friends who’ve lost their homes and voting for environmental protection policies and against the leaders who oppose them. “I want to make you feel safe” feels like, “come over stay as long as you’d like.” I have a love/hate relationship with the way songs intertwine their way into the scariest parts of our lives. I just hope this one can lovingly contribute to our conversations about how we’re all looking out for each other.”- JP Saxe shared on social media, “Okay, so this song, a lot of the I didn't mean for this to happen, but in the self exploration of the album, a lot of the themes that kept coming up were my concepts of my own masculinity. And a lot of the writing I did about masculinity was very critical. Because I think a lot of the ways that masculinity is presented to young men is into everyone is deeply fucked. And it's just hurting everyone. So I wrote about that a lot. But then in a desire to explore more broadly I asked myself also like, when is it good. Like it's got to be good sometimes. And kind of what I came to in conversations with my friends was like the I the idea that we want to protect the people around us. The desire to make people around us feel safe. It is a good quality sometimes associated with masculinity? But I think often we're getting wrong what actually makes people feel safe.”
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He continued, “It's you know, there's been like two or three times in my life I've had to make someone feel physically safe, like I've had to, you know, whether it be like walking in the streets at night and someone full of some shit or that's rare as fuck every day of my life I have the opportunity to make someone feel emotionally safe. To make someone feel listened to. To make someone feel like they're allowed to be themselves. To make someone feel like they can be a mess and it's okay. That kind of I wanted to make you feel safe. And maybe like that's the kind of masculine energy I want. I want to make you feel feel safe like that. So that was a conversation that was happening with me and my friends, and I wanted it to find its way into a song and I'm grateful that it did.” - source : Apple Music
