Songfacts®:

• Sometimes a house is not a home - especially when someone else is calling all the shots. In this song from his second studio album, JP Saxe shares a house with his girlfriend, but she makes all of the decisions on which paintings to buy and vetoes the sentimental sculpture he wants to put in the yard. Saxe draws parallels between losing control over his home and losing his identity in the relationship. He sings:
  
  I still park on the street when there's room in the driveway
  And leave my shoes at the door
  Leave my doubts in my head
  And I desperately downplay
  How I don't feel like me anymore.
  
  "One of the lyrical devices that I use quite a bit is paralleling physical space with emotional space," he explained in a 2023 Songfacts interview. "'Someone Else's Home' is one of the more literal examples of that. I'm not talking about the art on walls and sculptures for no reason. It's not just random details for details sake. It's for a very specific emotional purpose which is paralleling feeling out of place in a literal home, and with the more emotional, intangible feeling of feeling out of place in your own life, or in a life you're creating with someone. I start with those stories... and then I slowly pivot it toward the emotion. So, it kind of transitions how it seems like random details, like the paintings, but there's a direct line to what I'm trying to convey sentimentally."
• Saxe wrote many of the songs on the album during his trip to Colombia in the summer of 2022 and finished them in the studio back home in LA with producers Malay (Lorde, Sam Smith), Ryan Marrone (Sabrina Carpenter), and Benjamin Rice (Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez). The singer-songwriter, who worked from a rooftop studio space in Medellin, a city in Colombia's Aburrá Valley, told American Songwriter of the writing process:
  
  "I wrote most of the entire album with no production, whatsoever. I just wrote the songs on the piano and on the guitar. Even songs that I had done in the studio, I made voice note demos out of them, and a lot of that happened in Colombia. I listened to these 30 voice note demos, all in the exact same form, and all I had to respond to was a lyric, a melody, and a chord progression. And then I thought, 'Which of these songs feel the most vital?' Then, once I had chosen the songs, I went into the studio, and I produced them with Malay and Ryan Marrone."
• Making music wasn't the primary goal of Saxe's journey to South America. He wanted to honor his late mother, a fluent Spanish speaker who had lived in Peru for 20 years, by learning the language as a way to feel close to her. But he couldn't help being inspired by the creative environment in Medellin, and the experience influenced the way he wrote the songs on the album.
  
  "There's something inherently creative about being in a new, unfamiliar environment, because you have to navigate what it means to be yourself in surroundings where you've never been yourself before, and that's an illuminating, refining character experience," he told Songfacts. "And being creative and writing and expressing yourself all while having to be around people you're meeting for the first time, in environments you're in for the first time, that critically impacted the way I was exploring my emotional experience in these new songs."