JoJo’s currently untitled third studio album will showcase a more truthful side to the singer—even when the truth is ugly.
“There’s a song I wrote about cheating on a boy who was a really great person and how I still haven’t really forgiven myself for that,” she says of a new cut titled “Reckless With Your Heart.” “I wonder how his next relationship was affected by that—he’s married now—but it was kind of like a song for her. Like, ‘I’m sorry if you had to repair this person whose heart I really ****ed up for awhile.’”
The star will also let fans into her relationship with parents. She says “Just Like Them” details “how we spent our adult lives making up for our childhood.”
In the decade-long wait between LPs, JoJo did her best to keep fans entertained with mixtapes and one-off singles. But unsolicited leaks plagued the singer while secretly delighting supporters and earning bloggers tons of clicks. Jo has mixed emotions about the songs, saying, “I am glad that certain people got to hear them… but when something leaks, it kind of puts a sour taste in my mouth.” One can still find her favorites floating around the Internet like “Far From Heaven” (“That leak bummed me out because I was really considering that for my album,” she says), “Who’s Gonna Fight for Me” (“I wrote it from a really true place”) and “Paper Airplanes,” which she occasionally sings at live events.
There’s a song I wrote about cheating on a boy who was a really great person and how I still haven’t really forgiven myself for that,” she says of a new cut titled “Reckless With Your Heart.” “I wonder how his next relationship was affected by that—he’s married now—but it was kind of like a song for her. Like, ‘I’m sorry if you had to repair this person whose heart I really ****ed up for awhile.
