JADE has shared her new single ‘IT Girl’ – check it out below.
The former Little Mix singer’s bass heavy electro pop track, reflects “her experiences in the music industry and the often ruthless and complex nature of fame” according to a press release. You can listen to it below.
She said: “IT girl is the c*nty little sister to [debut single] ‘Angel Of My Dreams‘. There’s still so much that people don’t know about me, so I was eager to surprise people and prod the bear a bit. I have to write about my experiences in my own melodramatic way. I’m not going to sugarcoat it.”
Written by JADE with Cirkut and Lostboy, who has previously worked with Charli XCX and Lady Gaga, along with Lauren Aquilina and J Hart, the disco driven track sees her singing the spiky lyrics: “Sign on the line for me / Baby, smile, but don’t show your teeth / Say ‘Goodbye’ to autonomy / Now your body belongs to me.”
It comes after she recently recalled her stint on The X Factor, saying she didn’t know anyone who came away from the show without “some sort of mental health issue”.
The singer-songwriter featured on the talent search programme in 2011 and joined girl Little Mix when she was 18-years-old.
“I don’t think that kind of show can exist any more. We’re in a different place now,” JADE said. “We wouldn’t put someone that’s mentally unwell on a TV screen and laugh at them while they sing terribly. The concept of a joke act on a show is just cruel.”
She said the concept was “all very Roman empire” while joking that it was the “best training ever” for her to enter the music industry. “I don’t know anyone that’s come off that show and not had some sort of mental health issue on the back of it.”
She also previously recalled feeling “scared” to open up about her Arab heritage when she was in Little Mix. JADE, who launched her solo career in 2024, has Egyptian and Yemeni ancestry from her mother’s side.
“I’d only ever seen negative stereotypes of Arab people in the press,” she said, “So I was scared to promote my heritage. I feel sad for my younger self that I could’ve been the representation I needed back then. I try to make up for that now.”
In other news, JADE’s ‘Angel Of My Dreams’ recently came in at Number Five on NME‘s 50 Best Songs of 2024 list. “If there were a degree in pop music, then JADE is a star student,” the entry read. “From the eerie, distorted sample of Sandie Shaw’s ‘Puppet On A String’ to the frenzied, Xenomania-esque production, ‘Angel Of My Dreams’ is the work of a pop star who truly understands pop culture – and how to create a song that’s truly her own.”
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