Jade Thirlwall releases first solo record and almost misses Little Mix audition

Jed Thirlwall auditioned X factor She had it twice as a teenager, but the third time in 2011 she didn’t feel it. The Little Mix is ​​classified as a category.

“I didn’t want to be bothered because I was with a crappy boyfriend and I was like, ‘Oh, I just want to hang out with him.'” I just don’t know if that’s realistic anymore. people Magazine about the last shot factor when she was 15 years old. Then, my brother said, “Let’s go again.” You never know what might happen. You have nothing to lose. I was like, “Okay.” I went and I got put in Little Mix, so thank God.

It was during that season that she collaborated with Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards and Jesy Nelson, and Little Mix became one of the most successful winners in the show’s history, scoring five number one singles in the UK charts and 19 top ten finishes. The band is on hiatus in 2022 so that members of the BRIT Award-winning band can pursue solo projects, and Thirlwall told the magazine she’s fully ready to reveal her new vision to the world.

The singer, whose solo project is known as Jade, had her debut dance-pop single “Angel of My Dreams” hit the top 10 on the UK Hot Songs chart this summer, followed by a disco anthem celebrating kink, Her solo work is off to a good start. All three songs will appear on Jade’s as-yet-untitled debut solo album due out this year.

“You can really hear through the tracks that I’m trying to find my identity as an artist,” she says. “I wanted fans to experience that because it’s true.” Thirlwall said the inspiration behind her new single “Fantasy” was simple: “Sex, honey.” The original idea was to write A love song, but in her own unique way, which leads to her singing, “Passion, pain/Pleasure, no shame/If you like it weird, I like it weird/It’s a fantasy, baby.”

“I wanted this concept of liberation, of feeling like you’ve found the right person and you can explore all of your sexual fantasies, whatever you’re into, and have a safe space. I actually didn’t see that too much So much content like that, especially coming from women,” she said of the song, which “references heavily” her 1970s disco-era heroes Diana Ross and Donna Summer Summer), but also reflected in her own unique disco ball fashion.

Feeling freer to engage with more overtly sexual themes than the innuendo-laden “Little Mix,” Thirlwall went all-out to promote the song, releasing a series of “quirks” that she hoped her team would reject commodity”. “Thankfully, everyone is on board,” she said, noting that the line of edible underwear, lubricants and sex toys will also initially include condoms, but she worries that if for some reason they malfunction during use, The risk is too great.

Thirlwall said she hopes the three songs released so far reflect the “chaos of the record,” explaining, “You don’t expect every song to be right after the next one. It’s definitely the vibe. I just think Showing Every Part of Me ahead of the album’s release next year, she describes the entire record as “pretty experimental” and says you can hear her trying to find her solo artistic groove in it. To that experience, because that’s the truth. I spent three years writing a series of different types of songs, and I wanted there to be unexpected twists and turns along the way,” she said. “I only got a debut solo album. Why not do what I want to do?

Although Thirlwall is still putting the finishing touches on the album, she can’t wait for fans to hear it. “I’ve been living with this for a long time, so when fans ask online, ‘What is this clip? I heard this could be the title of a song. I just want to blurt it out and tell everyone, but I can’t Arrive,” she said. As of press time, a release date for the album has not yet been announced.