Earlier this week, JP Saxe held a benefit concert at New York’s Bowery Ballroom for those affected by the L.A. wildfires. Originally, the show was going to be a release party for his new single “Safe,” but in light of the recent events, he decided to honor the message of the single. On social media, JP mentioned, “wtf is the point of a song about the way I wanna make the people I love feel safe if we don’t actually do some shit.” The concert was a special way to not only help out those affected by the fires but to also introduce the song and promote its message of being a protector, of being someone’s rock.
On “Safe,” JP wonders what it is like to make someone feel safe in a relationship. He owns up to the fact that he is not perfect and spills his heart out about the doubts he has in himself. In the end, however, he is willing to try to be the best partner he can be. Over the indulgent melodies and minimal beats, he sings, “I’m still learning what it means to be protective / Show affection / When to fix it / When to listen / How to say / ‘I’m right here babe’ / I want to make you feel safe.”
Telling us more about “Safe,” JP explains,
“It’s a strange feeling to be dropping a song about what it means to protect the people we love on this particular week. I guess we don’t really get to decide what our songs are about. I thought it was about emotional safety — about the masculine urge to protect with fighting before listening, and relearning what it really means to make the people we love feel secure around us. Right now, it feels like, ‘Hey, checking on you’ texts, and donations to the GoFundMe’s of our friends who’ve lost their homes, and voting for environmental protection policies against the leaders who oppose them. ‘I want to make you feel safe’ feels like, ‘Come over, stay as long as you’d like.’ I have a love/hate relationship with the way songs intertwine their way into the scariest parts of our lives. I just hope this one can lovingly contribute to our conversations about how we’re all looking out for each other.”
You can listen to “Safe” here.
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