British vocalist Jessie J comes back launching her new album Don’t Tease Me With a Good Time. This is her first release since her last studio drop eight years ago.
Jessie J just released her sixth studio album, breaking her 8-years hiatus without new music. Her previous last release was her fourth studio album R.O.S.E., from May 2018. Don’t Tease Me With a Good Time comes as the start of Jessie’s new musical era. This new album includes 16 fire hits that mix different music genres. In her latest LP we can find pop, contemporary R&B with soul touches and alternative R&B.
The Price Tag artist also released a statement about her new launch that said: “It’s been eight years since my last body of work. I am so overjoyed this is finally being shared with the world, working with people so special and fun like Ryan Tedder and Jesse Boykins’s, los hendrix and Marty Maro.”
“This music is so layered and stretched over so many emotional and celebratory years of my life. Crossing many genres and feelings. The songs are a journey of grief to joy. Finding the light, and life after loss. A journey so many of us go through and I hope these songs can hold the hand of anyone in need of a soundtrack to a good or bad time. I love making music, I love sharing, I love connecting. I love an adventure. Don’t tease me with a good time”, Jessie J said about her new album release.
Don’t Tease Me With a Good Time is one of Flashlight’s singer most personal work. Jessie transits through many different emotions and experiences across the album. Loss, pain, healing, resilience, maternity, difficult relationships and health are some of the topics talked about in the new disc.
The Album’s Reception
The known reviewing platform Shatter The Standards published a Don’t Tease Me With a Good Time review that says: “What materializes over the album’s sixteen tracks is a writer who has stopped trying to prove she can sing, where she knows she can and chooses to use that instrument to say things she once shied away from.”
The critic continues talking about the disc’s theme and Jessie’s projection, saying: “The emotional core sits in the intersection of grief and resilience, giving voice to experiences many people carry quietly, while the rest charts the years of public scrutiny that led to this moment.”
The review goes on talking about the creation process and Jessies comeback after many years: “Outside of so-so writing in certain tracks, when the writing is specific, the songs land with force. There’s snark too—naming the album after a warning to abusers is equal parts humor and threat. Jessie J may still crave applause, but she’s less interested in playing along with the narratives others have written about her. She’s releasing music on her own terms and talking plainly about the fallout of fame, illness, and loss.”
