“Work it Out” is Joe Jonas’ first single off his upcoming sophomore solo album, Music For People Who Believe In Love. The Jason Evigan & Kane Ritchotte produced song is the singer-songwriters first solo release since 2022. On today’s episode of VERIFIED, Joe discusses his love for sad lyrics but happy songs, who he makes music for, feeling invisible and more!
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00:00The whole song starts with talking to yourself and then slowly feeling comfortable to talk to others about the situation and then eventually talking to
00:06Everyone saying okay. These are it's okay to talk about this. This is where I'm at
00:10And I hope you can accept me for who I am
00:19Some of my favorite songs of all time are sad lyrics happy music
00:23I want everyone to be able to sing a song like this
00:26It's not too heavy, but it's also like if you break down the lyrics, which we're doing today
00:30You'll notice that it talks about some real stuff
00:33Come on, Joe, you got so much more to be grateful for so being sad cuz you're making the room uncomfortable
00:40Okay, I get it right now. You feel it's a miserable. Sometimes. I wish I had powers to be invisible
00:46The lyric about invisibility was probably the one of the heaviest lyrics because I think it's about being really sad
00:52Sometimes you just feel out of place or out of your body and you feel thrown
00:56To the left and right and you don't know who you are in the moment
00:58And yeah, I mean if I had powers to be invisible
01:01I think I would just mess with my friends a lot have a french fry float in front of your face a lot of magic
01:06Even baddies get saddies and that's the hardest truth even baddies get saddies
01:10Everybody can feel really confident and then they're like, you know crying in the club
01:14We called your mommy and daddy. They don't know what to do. You're seeing everything backwards, but it's so beautiful
01:20Sometimes I need
01:23reminding my reminders
01:25I guess they're all around me. I do a gratitude list every morning
01:28I woke up today then bigger stuff like I get to do what I love for a living like how lucky am I for this?
01:33Song sometimes I need reminding is speaking to you're gonna be okay, no matter what it is. You're gonna be okay
01:40Hello, hello. Hello. Hello wake up tomorrow
01:44is now
01:46Get up get up get up get up. What do you want?
01:50in a bow
01:52No, nobody's gonna save you now. No, nobody's gonna pull you out
01:59Brush your shoulders off life's gonna work it out
02:03the chorus
02:05Speaks to the idea that no one's gonna save you. No one's going to come get you sometimes tough conversations
02:10You just push off push off push off and then you realize if you just have them right now
02:13If you deal with this right now
02:14if you
02:15Take that leap of faith and try that new thing
02:17Just going for it is sometimes the biggest difference than just sitting there and being curious about it
02:22You have to realize sometimes it's it's up to you. Not anyone else
02:40It's a very personal lyric but also I try to think about
02:44Everyone that has gone through high school years and you go
02:48I said some dumb shit when I was in high school and you're I'm 34 thinking about it
02:52I'm like, wait a minute. No one's go to bed going. I can't believe Joe Jonas said that when you're 17
02:57You know or you're going to bed thinking like I can't believe I said that in high school
03:01So the idea is like nobody's obsessed with you as much as you think or no one's thinking about that thing as much as you
03:06Are okay, maybe I'm a little dramatic. Okay, maybe I'm a little manic
03:12Some days I wanna float away. Sometimes I need
03:16Reminding
03:18it can be my personal cheat sheet of a reminder to be happy and to be
03:23Aware of there's a lot of things you can look at in your life and be like wow
03:26This is actually pretty cool when things can be a little bit uncomfortable or stressful or frustrating
03:30This is kind of my exciting way of sharing with others and hopefully they can use it for themselves
03:37When I write songs I want my kids to be able to sing it and I want
03:41Grandparents and I want 20,000 people in a room to be able to sing along in different countries
03:46And there's also I always think about like if kids bop do it, you're good
03:49What's the way where you got all generations of different people being able to say cool?
03:55I can connect connect with this not only lyric but also the message behind it