Aly Michalka

Obviously, every single album, you're hoping to achieve that 10% better each time, just like you would with each season of the show.

But I do feel like we've really stepped into our womanhood on this album.

And I think part of that is...

is I think just seeing that this music has been so informed by our live show and touring and playing songs to a live audience and with our band that we've now been playing with for a few years has really helped us identify, okay, this is the kind of music we want to put on a record and what we want to then go out and tour.

So I think it's looking at it from like,

the live show is the top of the pyramid and how do we get to the live show?

And I think a lot of this music was created with people that we felt really safe with and was...

while I was like heavily pregnant.

I mean, I guess we started writing it right before I got pregnant.

And then really the whole making of this album has been either me pregnant and then delivering and then album is finished and delivered itself.

Oh my God.

Yes.

Like the longest running team member.

Yeah.

for us like you know so it was like it was kind of almost like a father figure you know so it was very hard to come to terms with it and then we we felt like this could be a song you know and it's so specific like when you listen to the song and you read the lyrics you're like oh this is

Laurel Canyon to then live in Santa Barbara like away from AJ and I wrote I basically wrote this song with AJ about um like moving into this new house in this new space and it not feeling like a home and feeling like I was kind of like summoning it to be this this place that I felt welcomed in and not not like it had like bad juju or vibes I just was like

This isn't perfect and this isn't right.

And I want to change out this doorknob.

And my husband was just like, OK.

And I'm like pregnant and like nesting.