Julia Wolf Talks "In My Room," Twilight, Drake and New Album 'Pressure'

Zach Sang Show

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4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Long Island-born Julia Wolf has been dropping intimate confessionals since 2019, making waves in 2021 with catchy, synthy-pop cuts like ‘Resting Bitch Face Pt. 2’ and ‘Falling In Love,’ before signing to a major label and dropping her debut full length Girls In Purgatory that same year.

In 2025 she surprised everyone by dropping her third album, PRESSURE, via AWAL. Not only was she back on her DIY hustle — she’s often produced her artwork and creative direction from her bedroom base — but Julia Wolf 2.0, with the help of producer Scro, has pivoted away from her smooth pop grooves to a tougher sound, incorporating distorted riffs, pummelling speed metal drums, and glitchy beats, with Wolf’s voice as the emotive, vulnerable glue. Think Paramore meets Evanescence. And yes there were plenty of industry naysayers who were like, what the hell is this new sound? But she stuck to her guns and just look at her go.

She joins us on the couch to discuss this stylistic pivot and the wild whiplash of the past few years including the viral success of ‘In My Room’ blowing up on TikTok with a Twilight slideshow, exactly how Drake became a fan and collaborator, teaming up with Machine Gun Kelly on a Goo Goo Dolls cover and their upcoming arena tour. Plus we get into her abiding Twilight obsession (she played the Swan house in Oregon), deep-seated insecurities (‘Jennifer’s Body’ and what MKG thinks of a track that references his baby momma’s cult film), finding love, ASMR, feeling like a loser in high school, her Italian roots, leaving the East Coast for LA, and so much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, beautiful human. I am Zach. That is Dan. And today we welcome to the studio Julia Wolf.
0:09.7	Yo.
0:10.5	Oh, my gosh. Hi, guys.
0:11.7	Julia Wolf. You ever howl?
0:14.1	No. No, I haven't done that yet.
0:18.0	Ever?
0:18.9	Howl?
0:19.6	You've never been, like, compelled to, like, howl at the moon. Yeah, like. Or, like, even to imitate a dog. Have you? Yes. Yes. Actually, like, in a desire to communicate with my dog. Right. I vowed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure, to see, to see if they bark back. Yeah. I'm trying to talk to them. Yeah. Because I'm wondering, you guys are looking at me like I'm the crazy. No, I've done it. Sometimes I think it would be a cute thing to do on stage, too, to like get out the crowd to kind of howl and stuff. That's good. I know, I'm just too nervous to try it in case it fails but yeah if it fails at first but then it catches on come on then I'm just like howling on stage I think you stumble before they pick up steam you know true true some trial and error there by the your album's great thank you so much it's really good it is. Thank you. Any trial and error there? Oh yeah. Yeah, lots of that.
1:16.2	I think just because it's a bit genre fusion-y, like it definitely takes a couple tries because
1:22.9	it's such a fine line of like getting corny with the genre stuff. So it took a lot of like nitpicking
1:31.7	and sitting with it and figuring it out. From a lyrical standpoint, from a sonic standpoint,
1:37.9	or kind of both, I guess. Definitely a sonic standpoint. I just remember we blocked off like this one week. It was actually
1:47.6	during the fires. And it was like every day just going in and really making sure everything
1:55.7	sounded the way that we wanted it to. And it just, yeah, it took a lot of trial and error to get it to where it was you
2:03.2	you did say you received a lot of pushback from people when you decided to go down this route
2:06.9	why did they why did people have an issue with it or were they nervous about it it's just
2:13.1	quite different to what I was doing and I think a lot of people were telling me,
2:22.0	rock is dead. Not that I'm even doing rock. I don't even think it's that. I don't know what to call it,
2:28.4	but it just was because it was different that people were telling me it would fail.
2:40.9	But I had to trust the gut because I was not liking what my old stuff really was anymore.
2:48.3	When it's trusting the gut and being rooted in this mindset of like, I mean, where are you at? Because this is a different time, at least for you business-wise, right? Because, like, you're not signed the way you used to be. You really are independent. You call all the shots. It is kind of like this like, fuck it, why not? Or, like, right? Do you certain degree?
3:03.5	Oh, totally, because every label we reached out to rejected me and nobody wanted to help us out at all.
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