The “Can’t Help Myself” singer opened up in the glossy about his new music and revealed why his new album, 2AM in LA was titled that.
“This has been the most emotional roller coaster of a year that I’ve had so far, regarding my career, my relationships — it’s just been a crazy, emotional year,” Jake says.
“So I’ve been doing a lot of overthinking, but also meeting new people and going out — seeing what I like, what I don’t like, being single for the first time in a long time, and pretty much living by myself.”
He continues, “I found myself a lot of the time late at night at 2am just kind of over thinking things. All these thoughts are the different thoughts or experiences that I had at 2:00am in LA.”
That’s how his album title came about, and it perfectly sums up everything.
Jake adds, “I haven’t lived here for too long so it’s all kind of new to me. There have been a lot of changes in this last year, so if you listen to the album in order it kind of tells that story.”
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The Famous in Love actress wore head-to-toe fishnet, lace-up shorts with a shiny gold belt, white platform boots, and a furry coat for the event held earlier this week in Los Angeles.
She completed her look with pink lipstick, red sunglasses, and an assortment of jewelry which can be seen in some epic photos from photographer Grizzlee Martin.
Bella was joined by hip-hop artist Blackbear, who had fun with his own colorful ensemble.
Singer Jake Miller showed off his DJ skills on stage in a Nirvana tee and backwards baseball cap.
“DJed at Emo Nite last night,” Jake shared on Instagram. “Top 5 nights of my life for sure lol let’s do it again next month.”
The next day, Blackbear posted the Instagram photo below, featuring himself and Bella sharing a smooch. “Were hot,” he captioned it.
Jake Miller is hard at work getting his upcoming tour ready for the best fans in the world.
Meanwhile, we’re all still obsessing over his latest album, 2AM in LA, which is still blasting in our offices.
JJJ had the opportunity to speak to Jake about producing the entire record on his own and all the challenges that came up.
“It was actually a lot of fun,” he admits. “This was the first time I’ve ever produced any of my music by myself. Usually, I’d have producers making the beats and I just write the words, but this time around, I did all the songwriting and the beat making, with the help from some of my friends.”
Jake adds that “it was kind of like a therapy session to just have that complete creative control and make all these songs from my bedroom and having nobody tell me what to do; to do just whatever my heart wants.”
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Jake Miller pulled off the ultimate surprise on his fans last night — he dropped an acoustic version of 2 AM in LA!
“Just me and a guitar, that would be cool,” the singer mused to JJJ in our recent interview, opening up about how an acoustic version of his most recent album seems right up his alley.
He adds, “I’ve always been drawn to acoustic songs — it just takes the whole beat out of it and you concentrate on the lyrics and the meaning of the song more.”
Jake says, “I’m a lyric guy. I think the lyrics are way more important when it comes to songs than the beat. The beat is important, but it’s the lyrics that get me. With an acoustic album, not having that beat is what gets the point across. You’re listening to every word and every emotion.”
We can’t resist writing about Jake Miller and Simone Biles‘ friendship every time we are given the opportunity to. The 24-year-old musician and 20-year-old Olympian are both inspiring in their own right, and they always support one another in their careers.
Simone took away two ESPY awards last night, and her BFF was there to support her.
“Little steak dinner last night with @simonebiles to celebrate her ESPYs,” Jake captioned an Instagram post of the two of them posing together, smiling big. Simone posted the very same Instagram, with a slightly different caption.
“My two favorite things,” she wrote, “jake & steak.”
These two support each other in everything: Simone sent Jakethe sweetest send-off on his music tour, and he supported heron Dancing With the Stars, among (MANY) other examples, so we’re not surprised Jake supported her at the ESPYs.
Prepare to get all the feels from Jake Miller‘s new “Palm Blvd” music video.
The 24-year-old singer went back to his home state of Florida for the shoot, and reconnected with his family and friends, to whom he dedicates the video.
Jake talks about moving to Hollywood, but missing his loved ones.
“The realist video I’ve ever put out,” he tweeted.
You even get to see a younger Jake with a lot of cute, home video footage. Watch below!
Jake Miller just showed fans a first look at his “Palm Blvd” music video and it looks amazing, doesn’t it?
JJJ‘s got another scoop on the video straight from Jake himself!
“I developed almost four hours of old home videos of me and my friends and family,” he told us in our interview with him. “The video is going to be a mixture of then and now.”
What you’ll see is actually Jake growing up!
“It’s pretty cool slow motion shots,” he added. “Throwing the baseball with my friends growing up and hanging outside with my parents. It’s just going to be a cool contrast and shows my neighborhood, it shows my house, it shouts [out] my family…it’s going to be my favorite video I’ve ever made. It’s very nostalgic.”
Eeep, we can’t wait!
Jake‘s new video will premiere on Monday, July 10th!
There are some songs that just come to so easy, and that’s exactly what happened for Jake Miller with “Halfway”.
“This is one of the earlier songs that I made for the record,” the musician exclusively shared with JJJ. “I was on the rooftop of my apartment complex, just tanning, and wrote the chorus with the melodies, without any music in my head — just a cappella — which is a way I’ve been writing a lot of my songs lately.”
He adds, “I came make to my room after that and recorded the rough side into a voice memo. I had called up another friend, [Croosh, also rapper and songwriter] who I talked to earlier that day, and we worked on the song together that day.”
The easy, laid-back vibe was all Jake needed to write the amazing song.
“It’s why I like making music in my apartment because there’s just no pressure,” Jake says. “There’s no big fancy studios or big fancy equipment, or people walking in and out of the studio offering their opinions.”
“It’s just me. In all these songs you can hear that. You can hear the authenticity.”
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