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Joe Jonas Wants His Solo Album to Be ‘Packed’ With ‘Features’ and ‘A Lot of Duets’

Joe Jonas Wants His Solo Album to Be ‘Packed’ With ‘Features’ and ‘A Lot of Duets’
Kalia Richardson
By Kalia RichardsonAug 13, 2024
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Joe Jonas’ upcoming project might be a solo album, but that doesn’t mean he’ll be singing on it alone. During a recent chat with Entertainment Weekly, Jonas opened up about the value collaborations bring to his upcoming album, Music for People Who Believe in Love. 

“We packed it with features,” Jonas said. “I was reaching out to a lot of different people because I felt like I wanted to have other narratives and other voices and a lot of duets.”

“I felt like some of the songs lyrically needed somebody else’s voice,” Jonas continued. “A lot of this album is speaking in third person or having a conversation with a fictional version of myself, or a fictional person in my life. Being able to have that [other] voice create that was really special.”

During an appearance on Therapuss with Jake Shane, Jonas said that he worked alongside Alexander 23, Muna’s Josette Maskin, Jason Evigan, Tommy English, and Paris Carney while crafting the solo project. “Work It Out,” the DNCE lead vocalist’s first solo single in more than a decade, was released on July 19, and was originally envisioned as a Jonas Brothers song before he took it for his own.

“I asked my brothers’ blessings, and I was like, ‘Hey, I wanna go work on — I don’t wanna call it solo, but I want to go do something on my own, and I don’t feel like it’s DNCE, and I need to go just express some stuff for myself,’” Jonas said. “And they’re like, ‘Go for it.’”

Music for People Who Believe in Love marks the 34-year-old musician’s first album since the release of his 12-track album Fastlife in 2011. After a brief hiatus, the Jonas Brothers reunited for a world tour in 2012 and later released albums Happiness Begins (2019) and The Album (2023). The Jonas Brothers celebrated the 16th anniversary of their third album, A Little Bit Longer, on Monday.

Music for People Who Believe in Love is slated for Oct. 18.

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