Your girl Jordin Sparks is on one—no, really—and her Sparkplugs aren’t mad either. It was evident on her #ByeFelicia mixtape, which dropped shortly her breakup with Jason Derulo.
But Jordin doesn’t have time to think about exes in her rearview mirror, when she has new music about drop.
This time around the American Idol winner’s sound is definitely more urban and edgy, listen to the infectious “Double Tap” featuring Two Chains as proof. Expect her to talk smack (in a good way) and sing pretty on her third studio effort, Right Here, Right Now; look for it on iTunes in May.
Here, the singer talks about her new music, the paps and the bond between AI contestants.
I’ve been writing since I was little, not necessarily music, but I’ve been writing poetry since I was 10 years old. As I got older, I realized, hey songs are just poems with music added to them… It’s therapeutic to write about something that you’ve been so inspired by.
On Right Here, Right Now…
It wasn’t necessarily [Salaam Remi and I] going in and saying, “Okay, we want this to be urban. We want this to be pop. We want this to be R&B.” I was inspired by what I listened to growing up, which was ’90s R&B and I loved bass-driven music too.
On her favorite part of her job…
I love writing. I love recording. I love performing too. Being able to take the songs and go out and touch people with them. That’s what I’ve always wanted to do with my life: To tell stories and touch people through music. Songs take on a new meaning depending on the day. The emotion is going to be different, the feelings are different behind the song. Even though it was recorded one way, I can bring a new interpretation to it.
On inspiring her Sparkplugs…
When I have fans say, “Hey, you changed my life, or I lost 40 pounds because of you, or I decided to go for my dream because of you.” That’s absolutely incredible. There’s nothing better than that. I mean, I get to sing for my job. It’s pretty freakin’ amazing.
On the paparazzi…
I’m lucky that I don’t have it so crazy where I can’t go grocery shopping, or I can’t function. I don’t know if that’ll change or not, but I like the paparazzi. I don’t mind them so much.
On how AI prepared her for the big leagues…
That type of pressure and schedule and the environment, the work that Idol required… It prepared me for everything that I’ve been doing. Everything else is pretty much a cakewalk compared to that—except for singing at the Super Bowl. That was terrifying. With In the Heights, it was similar, because it was every single day, eight shows a week, with one day off in the middle. I was eating, breathing and sleeping that Broadway show. I had to be very strict with my voice, Idol prepped me a bit for that.
On bonding with AI contestants…
It’s definitely interesting. I have a strong bond with all of the contestants from my season. We got really, really close. It was hard after the tour. It was like, “Okay now you guys get to go home.” Like, what?! After spending 24 hours a day for a year together? The only time we didn’t see each other was when we were sleeping… It’s this great alumni group of people. When I see another contestant, it’s almost like, “Yeah, I know what you went through.” There’s this unspoken bond.
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