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The debut full-length album from singer Julia Michaels, 2021's Not in Chronological Order, is a smart, swaggering pop album that balances big hooks with her fiery, empowered charisma. It's a style she's been honing for years as a songwriter behind-the-scenes for artists like Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, Selena Gomez, and others. Here, she grabs the spotlight, nicely building upon the anthemic, genre-bending rock, electronic dance-pop, and R&B that made her previous solo tracks, including her 2016 Kygo collaboration "Carry Me" and her 2017 orchestral-accented single "Issues," such welcome surprises. Working with a handful of producers, including the Monsters & Strangerz, G Koop, German, and others, Michaels has crafted an album packed with universally relatable themes of falling in love, getting your heart broken, and wishing you were a stronger, more independent person. Michaels gives you the sense that she's writing from experience and transforming her emotions into cathartic pop anthems. It doesn't hurt that she also has a warm, expressive voice, marked by a dusting of vocal fry that can make her sound vulnerable and sweet one minute and wickedly intimidating the next. It's a flirtatious dichotomy she plays with throughout Not in Chronological Order, moving deftly between romantic longing and burn-it-all down relationship jealousy. It's a vibe perhaps best expressed on the album-opening "All Your Exes," in which Michaels wills herself into being the one and only, past, present, and future object of her lover's desire. That the song starts as an acoustic ballad and ends in an anthemic fury of rock guitar bombast speaks to Michaels' knack for capturing how the ups and downs of a relationship can feel so genuinely dramatic that the only way to express them is in song.
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German, Producer, Programmer - Serban Ghenea, MixingEngineer - Stefan Johnson, ComposerLyricist - John Roberts, AAndRAdministrator - Wendy Goldstein, A&R - Julia Michaels, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jeremy Levin, ProductionCoordinator - Ben Rice, Engineer, VocalProducer - The Monsters & Strangerz, Producer, Programmer - Randy Merrill, MasteringEngineer - Jordan K. Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Oliver Peterhof, ComposerLyricist - JP Saxe, Guitar, ComposerLyricist - David “Dsilb” Silberstein, ProductionCoordinator - Christian “C” Johnson, ProductionCoordinator - Greg “G” Golterman, ProductionCoordinator - Kenneth Jarvis II, A&R
℗ 2021 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Campbell, StringArranger - Serban Ghenea, MixingEngineer - STEVE Churchyard, Engineer - John Ryan, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist, Keyboard - Stefan Johnson, ComposerLyricist - John Roberts, AAndRAdministrator - Wendy Goldstein, A&R - Billy Walsh, ComposerLyricist - Julia Michaels, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jeremy Levin, ProductionCoordinator - The Monsters & Strangerz, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, Keyboard - Randy Merrill, MasteringEngineer - Jordan K. Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Bo Bodnar, RecordingSecondEngineer - David “Dsilb” Silberstein, ProductionCoordinator - Christian “C” Johnson, ProductionCoordinator - Greg “G” Golterman, ProductionCoordinator - Kenneth Jarvis II, A&R
℗ 2021 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Serban Ghenea, MixingEngineer - John Ryan, Producer, Guitar, Programmer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist, Keyboard - Stefan Johnson, ComposerLyricist, VocalProducer - John Roberts, AAndRAdministrator - Wendy Goldstein, A&R - Julia Michaels, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - G Koop, Producer, Guitar - Jeremy Levin, ProductionCoordinator - Robert Mandell, ComposerLyricist - The Monsters & Strangerz, Producer, Programmer, Keyboard - Randy Merrill, MasteringEngineer - Jordan K. Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Gian Stone, VocalProducer - David “Dsilb” Silberstein, ProductionCoordinator - Christian “C” Johnson, ProductionCoordinator - Greg “G” Golterman, ProductionCoordinator - Kenneth Jarvis II, A&R
℗ 2021 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Campbell, StringArranger - German, Producer - Serban Ghenea, MixingEngineer - STEVE Churchyard, Engineer - John Roberts, AAndRAdministrator - Wendy Goldstein, A&R - Julia Michaels, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jeremy Levin, ProductionCoordinator - Ben Rice, Engineer, VocalProducer - The Monsters & Strangerz, Producer, Keyboard - Randy Merrill, MasteringEngineer - Mario Jose, BackgroundVocalist - JP Saxe, ComposerLyricist - Bo Bodnar, RecordingSecondEngineer - India Carney, BackgroundVocalist - David “Dsilb” Silberstein, ProductionCoordinator - Christian “C” Johnson, ProductionCoordinator - Greg “G” Golterman, ProductionCoordinator - Kenneth Jarvis II, A&R
℗ 2021 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Serban Ghenea, MixingEngineer - John Ryan, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Programmer, Synthesizer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist, VocalProducer, Keyboard, DrumKit - John Roberts, AAndRAdministrator - Wendy Goldstein, A&R - Julia Michaels, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Randy Merrill, MasteringEngineer - Jeff Gunnell, Engineer - Kenneth Jarvis II, A&R
℗ 2021 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Serban Ghenea, MixingEngineer - Stefan Johnson, Engineer, ComposerLyricist - Pierre-Luc Rioux, Guitar - Wendy Goldstein, A&R - Julia Michaels, Vocalist, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jeremy Levin, ProductionCoordinator - The Monsters & Strangerz, Producer, Programmer, VocalProducer - Randy Merrill, MasteringEngineer - Jordan K. Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Michael Pollack, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist, Keyboard - David “Dsilb” Silberstein, ProductionCoordinator - Christian “C” Johnson, ProductionCoordinator - Greg “G” Golterman, ProductionCoordinator - Kenneth Jarvis II, A&R
℗ 2020 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Campbell, StringArranger - Serban Ghenea, MixingEngineer - STEVE Churchyard, Engineer - John Ryan, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Stefan Johnson, Engineer, ComposerLyricist - John Roberts, AAndRAdministrator - Wendy Goldstein, A&R - Billy Walsh, ComposerLyricist - Julia Michaels, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jeremy Levin, ProductionCoordinator - The Monsters & Strangerz, Producer, VocalProducer, Keyboard - Randy Merrill, MasteringEngineer - Jordan K. Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Bo Bodnar, RecordingSecondEngineer - David “Dsilb” Silberstein, ProductionCoordinator - Christian “C” Johnson, ProductionCoordinator - Greg “G” Golterman, ProductionCoordinator - Kenneth Jarvis II, A&R
℗ 2021 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Serban Ghenea, MixingEngineer - John Ryan, Producer, Engineer, Guitar, Programmer, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist, VocalProducer, Keyboard - John Roberts, AAndRAdministrator - Wendy Goldstein, A&R - Julia Michaels, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Randy Merrill, MasteringEngineer - Jeff Gunnell, Engineer - Kenneth Jarvis II, A&R
℗ 2021 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Serban Ghenea, MixingEngineer - Stefan Johnson, Engineer, ComposerLyricist - John Roberts, AAndRAdministrator - Wendy Goldstein, A&R - Julia Michaels, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Jeremy Levin, ProductionCoordinator - The Monsters & Strangerz, Producer, Programmer, VocalProducer, Keyboard - Randy Merrill, MasteringEngineer - Jordan K. Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Michael Pollack, ComposerLyricist - Gian Stone, VocalProducer - Matt Zara, Guitar, ComposerLyricist - David “Dsilb” Silberstein, ProductionCoordinator - Christian “C” Johnson, ProductionCoordinator - Greg “G” Golterman, ProductionCoordinator - Kenneth Jarvis II, A&R
℗ 2021 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Serban Ghenea, MixingEngineer - Stefan Johnson, ComposerLyricist - John Roberts, AAndRAdministrator - Wendy Goldstein, A&R - Julia Michaels, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist, BackgroundVocalist - Jeremy Levin, ProductionCoordinator - The Monsters & Strangerz, Producer, Programmer - Randy Merrill, MasteringEngineer - Chris Null, Guitar - Jordan K. Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Michael Pollack, Engineer, ComposerLyricist, VocalProducer - David “Dsilb” Silberstein, ProductionCoordinator - Christian “C” Johnson, ProductionCoordinator - Greg “G” Golterman, ProductionCoordinator - Kenneth Jarvis II, A&R
℗ 2021 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
The debut full-length album from singer Julia Michaels, 2021's Not in Chronological Order, is a smart, swaggering pop album that balances big hooks with her fiery, empowered charisma. It's a style she's been honing for years as a songwriter behind-the-scenes for artists like Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, Selena Gomez, and others. Here, she grabs the spotlight, nicely building upon the anthemic, genre-bending rock, electronic dance-pop, and R&B that made her previous solo tracks, including her 2016 Kygo collaboration "Carry Me" and her 2017 orchestral-accented single "Issues," such welcome surprises. Working with a handful of producers, including the Monsters & Strangerz, G Koop, German, and others, Michaels has crafted an album packed with universally relatable themes of falling in love, getting your heart broken, and wishing you were a stronger, more independent person. Michaels gives you the sense that she's writing from experience and transforming her emotions into cathartic pop anthems. It doesn't hurt that she also has a warm, expressive voice, marked by a dusting of vocal fry that can make her sound vulnerable and sweet one minute and wickedly intimidating the next. It's a flirtatious dichotomy she plays with throughout Not in Chronological Order, moving deftly between romantic longing and burn-it-all down relationship jealousy. It's a vibe perhaps best expressed on the album-opening "All Your Exes," in which Michaels wills herself into being the one and only, past, present, and future object of her lover's desire. That the song starts as an acoustic ballad and ends in an anthemic fury of rock guitar bombast speaks to Michaels' knack for capturing how the ups and downs of a relationship can feel so genuinely dramatic that the only way to express them is in song.
© Matt Collar /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:29:35
- Main artists: Julia Michaels
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Republic Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2021 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2021 Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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