So when your guy isn’t staying true, follow this five-step plan:
1. Don’t go to his soccer game that also happens to be on a rainy afternoon
2. Spend that time in your room hypothetically telling him to ‘Leave (Get Out)’
3. You know what? Throw out his stuff. His jersey, your pictures together, that bear. Just throw everything out
4. Take out the trash in the rain
5. Screw it. Go dance in the rain and tell the world how much of a jerk he was
Well, at least that’s what JoJo recommends.
True millennials remember the hoop earrings, bellbottom jeans, and the angst that came with having a boyfriend that could be anything but faithful through JoJo. Remember her? That thirteen-year-old whose debut single sold over four million copies worldwide? We tried to feel her pain through Leave (Get Out) and Too Little Too Late and she was amazing at getting us to hate every boyfriend she’s ever had. But what happened to her? After battling through label troubles, for what seemed like forever, JoJo is back ten years later at age 23 with what seems like the same problems. And let’s be honest we can still relate.
After dropping a “tringle” (three simultaneous singles) on August 20th, JoJo came back to us with three emotionally packed singles-Say Love, When Love Hurts, and Save My Soul-that stay consistent with her sound and her image.
When Love Hurts is the most upbeat of the three releases and is bound to be played on Top 40 and remixed and reworked for the next few months at least. It has a light and bouncy rhythm to it and has a surprisingly happy message: “when love hurts/ yeah that’s how you know it’s real” with a drop very similar to a Calvin Harris summer record, a perfect way to end this summer and begin her comeback.
The next single, Save My Soul, truly reminds us why we thought JoJo was so good in the first place. Her voice is showcased in a wide ranged, midpaced tune all mixed in with the depth of her emotion: “you’re the pain and the medicine/ one taste and I’m numb again.” She lets us in on the ins and outs of how drawn she is to her lover and just how dangerous that addiction is.
Her last release, Say Love, is arguably the saddest single of the three and according to the artist herself, “…is about saying what you need to say, putting yourself out there, being vulnerable, and giving all of yourself.” She really hits hard on these topics and calls out this love of hers to be vulnerable with her: “when I say love you/you just say me too/but I want you to say love.” A lot of raw and real emotion fused into a pop song, no?
Well there you have it. JoJo is back with a beautiful set of singles that I’m sure will hit your playlist in no time.
Get a head start right here