Little Did I Know by Julia Michaels Song Info
In “Little Did I Know,” Julia Michaels never know she could fall in love, but finds an unlikely relationship with someone who she truly cares about. While bringing in scholarly metaphors, she makes things accessible for everyone by drawing on an experience almost every romantically inclined person has had. "I wrote “Little Did I Know” with JP. I had a session with an artist that day, and it didn’t go the way that I really wanted it to. I think I just put [too] much pressure on myself because I wanted it to be great. I remember coming home and looking at JP, just being like, “I need to write something that feels sincere and honest.” He was like, “Alright, well, let’s do it. I’m happy to help you.” We started it in bed on the guitar, we went to sleep, woke up the next day, he sat on the bathtub, I was standing on the bathroom floor. We wrote it there. We wrote it in a park. We wrote it in his old house [which] he turned into a studio. When it came time to record it, it was July, it was the middle of the pandemic. My vocal producer Ben Rice, who’s done all my vocals since I was 21, 22 years old, came over. He set up his equipment in my guest bedroom. I sang everything in the guest bedroom. Then JP and I did all the choir stacking vocals. What you hear is from that day, most of it—the only thing that has changed is that we added a couple more choir stacks with a few friends of ours, just for some added texture." - via Apple Music "We started “Little Did I Know” after I’d had a session with an artist, and it had been my first real session in a while because of the pandemic and everything, so I was a bit rusty. The session didn’t go the way that I was hoping it would go and I was really down on myself for not making it be able to work, so I came home and I was laying in bed, I was really defeated, and I looked at JP and I said “I just think I need to write a very honest song right now to make me feel better”, and he got his guitar out and we started it. He was sitting on the edge of the bathtub, I was standing in the bathroom, then we ended up in the park where we had our first date and we wrote it there, and then we ended up at his old house that he turned into a studio, we wrote the chorus there. That song started in a place of pure defeat and it ended in a place of pure love." — Julia via official Genius interview
