Talking with Elliot Jacobson and the song that steered her first EP and discovering her Electro-Pop sound:

I had met him about five years earlier in a session. He was a session drummer, and was on tour with Ingrid Michaelson. We just started exchanging these emails, and the first email was a list of what we were listening to. I sent him over the chorus and melody for “Heartbeat,” which I had saved for a while.

I think we just didn’t put pressure on ourselves and we really had no intention of what we wanted the music to sound like. We just wanted to make music that we enjoyed, and we threw ideas back and forth for a long time. It just developed from there.

For me, “Heartbeat” was the first song that was ever written that I felt like was an actual representation of myself. I’ve always written music and played music, but I remember after we finished producing it, being like, ‘This is it.’ I understand this. I know who I am, what I want to say, and how I want to say it.” It propelled the rest of the writing for the EP.

What her cameo would have been like in T-Swift’s “Bad Blood” video:

I would want to just destroy something. If you’re going to put me in that setting I literally want to knock down a building with my fist, something ridiculous. I don’t want to look baddass, I want to be baddass: and literally fuck shit up.

Genius broke down Taylor’s awesome video. Check it out here!

Strangest record her parents have in their collection being Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” and super competitive laser tag.

Describing her song “Weekend”:

Conceptually it came from a snapshot of a scenario. An old friend of mine lived on this quiet, dead end residential street with bright florescent lights. I had the image of us falling down in the stillness of the scene. From the first line, the song winds up being an ode to the nostalgia of how, despite how sick we were or how insane things get, we can take moments from the craziest times and glorify them as being absolutely perfect.”

They say opposites attract and he complements her inadequacies. The last two lines are metaphorical imagery for him continuously wasting her time, represented by the symbol for infinity aka a figure eight, which resembles two circles always reconnecting in the middle.

Figure eights have been used differently in Pop music. Take Ellie Goulding’s chorus of “Figure 8” for example which resembles the one-sided relationship of this first verse.

In an interview with Miss O and Friends, VÉRITÉ claimed this is one of her favorite verses she’s ever written. Specifically the first four lines.

On the juxtaposition between her lyrics and the production:

Probably for a lot of it. I make my best attempt to be really honest and all of the music winds up being written through my perspective or about myself or about certain experiences. Mostly snapshots. Usually I’ll see a picture of something that happened and I kind of go from there and so songs that wind up being more upbeat. I don’t tend to write about falling in love—not that that won’t happen, but it’s just not a topic that winds up coming out of me. So, having this whole week planned, it’s like the same. Like driving, you know. And if you listen to it on the first listen, maybe you won’t catch it. But there’s lots of juxtaposition, I think, with the songs, which I like. And then it leaves moments for when you have that slow song and the meaning is apparent and the feeling is apparent. It’s like then those songs can shine too.

“Weekend” is like, you know, it’s funny. I’ll tell you how I wrote it. It’s the most upbeat song on the EP and has these driving drums. My producer is also a drummer so it’s super percussive and you know, “We can fall in love for the weekend.” And it sounds so positive. And underlying it’s kind of like this really heartbreakingly nostalgic story for me. It’s really like a snapshot of a moment in time for me. And so the song to me is like very still and slow moving, even though there’s like all of this percussion around it. I was sitting one day trying to write and it really wasn’t happening so I was watching Orange is the New Black. I did the Netflix series from beginning to end in one day like a creepy person. I feel like I’m not alone in that.

Track by track of her Sentiment EP

Wasteland was written a long time ago in the same week as Weekend, actually. The first line of this accurately describes how I feel on the day to day, how I constantly feel like I say too much and how that plays out with others.

Colors was sent to me pretty developed by producer Zach Nicita, and was an extremely dynamic track that I made it my goal to match. Very generally, it’s about the places I prefer to stay in my mind.

I went upstate to my parents house for a few days and Rearrange was written there. It’s definitely more lyrically straightforward than I tend to be and is literally about how easy it is to have someone else rearrange your mind.

Sentiment was written on a loop in my mind while walking. Lyrically, it has two of my favorite lines. It’s generally about the ability and desire to miss something and how we cut ourselves off from the past.