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Jess Glynne is sexually confused
In the past year Jess Glynne has topped the charts three times. But with binge-drinking and relationship turmoil blighting her rise to fame, things haven’t been easy. She talks to Craig McLean about seeking advice from Sam Smith, partying with Taylor Swift and what happened when she fell in love with a woman
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It wasn’t until she enrolled in a year-long course at the British Academy of New Music in Bromley-by-Bow that her dreams of being a professional musician began to take shape. She struck up a rapport with fellow student Jin Jin (Janée Bennett) and the pair began writing together. Their demos — and Glynne’s distinctive voice — quickly attracted attention from publishing companies, and Black Butter Records, the London label that first released Clean Bandit, Rudimental and Jessie Ware, signed her up. In August 2013, a record deal at Warner’s Atlantic imprint followed.
It sounds like a dream come true — except for one thing. ‘I was actually broken-hearted,’ says Glynne. She’d recently come out of a relationship and was, she says, in ‘a dark place’. ‘[It was] the most horrible situation I could have been in. She just f***ed me over. It was the first girl I’d ever fallen in love with.’ She stops, surprised by her own candour. This is the first time she’s discussed her sexuality in public. ‘I’ve never said that to anyone…’ she says, before ploughing on. ‘It was a relationship that was so new to me. Someone I met working.’ She’s reluctant to define her orientation too narrowly. ‘I don’t know what I want now — to be with a guy, with a girl, be with anyone.’ For the moment, she’s relishing her independence. ‘I’m so content with just doing this and seeing where it all takes me.’
The confusion and heartbreak inspired much of her writing. She says her song ‘Don’t Be So Hard’ describes her state of mind ‘at the beginning, when I started doing everything’. It was a bittersweet moment — professionally exciting, personally tumultuous. ‘The first lyrics are: “I came here with a broken heart that no one else could see/I drew a smile on my face to paper over me…” That’s literally what happened.’
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FULL INTERVIEW HERE
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Good luck to ha
