

I got off that plane and never had dairy or eggs or any animal products ever again. I was on a flight back from a GLAAD board meeting in Provincetown and watched a documentary about the dairy industry. I’ve been a vegetarian forever but became a full vegan seven years ago. Sushi’s always a good go-to because even if it isn’t a vegan sushi place, you can’t go wrong with a cucumber roll or inari. I’m pretty sure it’s a tapioca base, and it’s really fucking good. I lived in New York for ten years, but most of the studios that I worked at don’t exist anymore, and most of them were in Brooklyn.įor lunch, I ordered a Beyond Sushi “salmon” roll to the studio. It gives you the New York vibe to just be sitting on each other’s laps while you’re trying to write a song. Everything in New York, the size of buildings and rooms, is so much smaller than in L.A. This was the first time I worked at this space. I spent most of the day at the Cutting Room Studios working on new music for a pop star that I have worked with many times in the past. I got one with kale, romaine, parsley, spinach, and cucumber. Normally, when I’m in L.A., I’ll get one from Joe & the Juice, which I know they have in New York, but on my first day in the city, I was doing an interview with People for Pink Ladies and the interviewer suggested the Bean. It makes sense, then, that while Tranter was recently in town from L.A., they made a point to check out Chicago on Broadway, in addition to a few new favorite restaurants. The same is true for musical theater, in part because Tranter is a songwriter and producer on the new series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies. But they say that just as they were recently growing weary of pop tropes - “Falling in love, breaking up, sex, partying, or vague empowerment” - collaborations with young songwriters have reinvigorated their creative energy.

Justin Tranter has written some of the biggest pop hits of the last decade: “Believer,” by Imagine Dragons Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” and “Lose You to Love Me,” by Selena Gomez, among many, many others. Tranter, green juice, and lots of vegan sushi.
