Okay

"When it was done, I had a version of just me singing it and I had a version with her singing every line with me and to me, the song couldn’t exist without her vocal on it. It just made so much sense and it was never … I think a few people might’ve said, “Oh, maybe you take the first verse and let her take the second,” and I don’t know. It’s just a duet all the way through. It’s kind of fire. It’s cool because it can actually go both ways. It could, to the listener, you could be thinking that Jules is singing to herself, and I’m singing to myself, we’re actually maybe singing about each other, but in completely different rooms. Or, it can be like, they’re together, as friends, and just got each others back through the song, and singing to themselves, but also singing to the other person. It’s really up to the listener, which is, I think, kinda nice."

- Paul

"Okay" stylized as "okay" is a song by American band LANY and American singer Julia Michaels. The song was released on April 23, 2019.

Background
While recording for Malibu Nights, the band met Michaels at Conway Recording Studios, where they reportedly wrote the song in just two days. Paul says:


 * "I remember we talked for a long time and we went outside and ate a bunch of grapes in the parking lot. She talked to me about some guy she had a crush on, and I was like, ‘I just can’t even look at girls right now’ because I still loved this girl that totally wrecked me. At the end of my whole two-hour spiel, I think I said to her, ‘I’m gonna be okay. Right?’ And she’s like, ‘write that right now.’"

The collaboration is unique in that it doesn’t contain any solos. While some at the label were skeptical, Paul says, "when I sang it alone, I was like, this sucks, it’s not the same without her vocal on it. There was just never a doubt or question in my mind."

A collaboration with Julia Michaels was first hinted when the band uploaded a picture of frontman Paul Klein and Michaels at genius. Two days before the release, the band confirmed the collaboration and announced the song title in another post.