“something worth working on” examines a romance at a crucial crossroads. The track’s piano-laden production echoes beneath vulnerable verses from John K. As sparse orchestration echoes, he serves up a catchy and confessional chorus inspired by text messages with his wife, “But all the nights we spent losing our minds together don’t mean that it’s wrong, it means we’ve got something worth working on.”
“Sometimes in a relationship an invisible wall can slowly build between two people and cause disaster when left unchecked. This song comes from a very real place with that idea in mind.
I was heading to a week-long writing camp last September, and was leaving my wife and newborn son for the first time. We got into an argument before I left which continued via text, but just before I landed she threw me a lifeline and waved the white flag (even though I probably should’ve been the one to). Noticing her grace in that moment I told her I loved her and said “We have something worth working on”. I still have that text. The next day I told the story to my co-writers and in no time at all we fully explored what “something worth working on” meant.
“I wanted the music video to reflect that. I was pretty firm on the concept I believed in. A performance-based video driven by the idea of a wall between a couple that needs to be broken down.
That’s probably the most frustrating place to be in any relationship I think– The place where you just can’t get through to the other person no matter what you do. I love the symbolism in this video, and the camera work just completely surpassed my expectations.
It’s by far the most cinematic and dynamic video I’ve done to date, which fits perfectly with how deeply connected I feel to the concept of this song.”
