Issues

This is the debut single released by Julia Michaels, who is better known as a songwriter of hit tunes for the likes of Selena Gomez ("Good For You") and Justin Bieber ("Sorry").

Michaels penned this ode to her anxieties with her regular songwriting partner Justin Tranter at a songwriting camp run by Stargate and Benny Blanco. Several artists were interested in the tune but Michaels decided she wanted to record it herself. "I thought, 'This song is too much my story to give to someone else,'?" she told Billboard magazine. "'Maybe this is a sign. Maybe I want something different.'"

The confessional love song was inspired by Michaels' real-life relationship with her boyfriend. She explained: "My boyfriend and I like to fight a lot. I have a lot of problems. He has a lot of problems. Somehow, we always work them out and find a way back to each other. 'Issues' is knowing and accepting you have problems and your partner has problems and when s--- gets hard, you don't just walk away, you make it work - no matter how f----- up you are. You're there for each other."