AJ Michalka

We were supposed to do that at the same time, but it's fine.

Her water broke in like day two of

like pre-production at her house at my yeah in the guest room wait at like 6 a.m that's kind of like i was texting with steven it was very he's like i'm like what's going on in there he's like i think her water broke i was like what we just started and then i got really nervous thinking ocd i was like she's gonna be pissed because this water is on her bed and on the ground not when it's like your child although that is pretty funny ali's like clean it up get the rags

we oh my god we okay yeah how long was the writing process of this album the writing was finished so writing i would say the writing took a solid year yeah yeah before we really were ready to be like these are the 15 songs we want to record we're very like like just maybe just under maybe just under a year yeah this is a hard question what is your favorite song off the album that's hard i'm so happy with this record but i really think my number one is michael's song

We wrote it about a really dear friend of ours that we had worked with in the industry for years and he passed away last year.

And we were like, we have to write about this.

And we were on tour.

We were on tour during the funeral.

We weren't able to come.

Our parents came on behalf of us, which was really sweet.

We're really close to his daughter and his wife.

Literally like a longstanding member of the Allie and AJ team.

specifically songwriting.

And it's funny because I'm learning constantly about music we've actually already written, but I'm learning new things about what we've written after the fact.

Like to me, when a song takes on a new life, but it had a different meaning when you wrote it, like, I don't know what it is.

Now, when I listen to that song and I picture your home, which you've now created from the ground up as like a beautiful nest, I'm like, whoa, this is so different.

than how we came at this song, writing it, thinking we're splitting up as sisters.

We're no longer going to live in the canyon by each other.

We're like, what are we doing?

We're going to be torn apart.