And I still have all my songs, I have so many notebooks. I would write them down, learn piano, and started actually writing songs in first grade. Eventually, I learned, I became literate. This was when I was like two or three, I would make my sister write them down for me because I couldn't write. The radio would always be on but eventually I would make my mom turn off the radio and be like, "It's Sadie's radio," and I would just make up songs for however long we were in the car. I grew up just running errands with my mom in the back seat. I'm from Orange County, California, so it's just so much traffic, so much driving all the time. I started writing songs before I could even really write. It's been like my whole life leading up to finally having a song out. We just started writing and it became a song about wanting to reach back out.”Īhead of its video release, NYLON caught up with Jean to chat about the song, the power of the open verse challenge, whether she ever ended up sending the track to her ex, and what’s coming up for the 19-year-old song-maker. “I was still so sad about it and knew everything about it because we had written so many songs about it. “I was just so emotional about this breakup that happened like six, seven months ,” Jean tells NYLON of writing “WYD Now?” which she originally penned during a writing trip with friends Grace Enger and David Alexander in upstate New York. In the simple Jaqueline Dufwa-directed visual, she lounges in her bedroom as memories of her last relationship replay around her, wondering about the fate of her former flame and bringing the song’s gently inquiring premise to life: “You're still everything I want and/ I think we could work it out/ So what are you doing now?” Now with millions of streams to her name, Jean is premiering the track’s music video on NYLON.
And it did on TikTok: after putting out an open-verse call for the song in late 2021, a host of comedians, singers, and rappers, including Lil Yachty, have taken on its challenge, turning “WYD Now?” into a veritable phenomenon. Her song, a delicate and pulsing pop ballad about wanting to reconnect with an ex, gleams from her crystalline voice, a strong and silvery force that can’t help but grab your attention. The 19-year-old Orange County native’s first-ever song “WYD Now?” has become a certified sensation on the app, thanks to the power of the open verse challenge - a TikTok format that invites other creators to duet with her during an instrumental opening on her song. If you’ve been on TikTok, you may already be familiar with Sadie Jean.
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