She impressed music fans and critics with her conceptual electro-pop album, Badlands, and was recently introduced to a whole new mainstream ( ) audience courtesy of her “The Feeling” collaboration with Justin Bieber.
The MTV Artist To Watch admits she’s been working on new music, but you won’t find it on her next album. The singer, who is about to wrap up the U.S. leg of her Badlands tour, said that she has an “uncontrollable urge” to write music all the time, but those songs “aren’t necessarily right for me,” which is why she will be releasing it “in some capacity in the next year.”
“Any new music is not for the second album. I have plans to put out some content in the next year that’s unrelated to the next record, just ’cause I want to put out some stuff that shows off a different side of musicality for me,” she said. “Maybe something in a different genre, like it could be urban, it could be jazz. I want to show off my musicality.”