The award-winning vocalist is an industry veteran at only 30 years old and 17 years into her career, she's overcome significant obstacles. I had tried 'be tougher, Jo and do this yourself and I was like 'You know what? I need a little help,' and that was where that came from."īorn Joanna Noelle Levesque-JoJo comes from a childhood nickname- was born in Brattleboro, Vermont and raised in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The song 'Lift,' which is the last song on the EP that I wrote in Nashville, and that was me deciding that I was going to get back on antidepressants.
That's where the intro 'World of Sunshine' came, it's where 'Fresh New Sheets' came from, just that beginning process. So, I was like 'Let me try to at least write through this.' And I got together with some of my favorite collaborators and even though I felt like I had absolutely no energy, I was able to write from that place. "When I'm not being creative, if I'm not getting outside, or working up a sweat, journaling, filling my mind with good, positive things, I can take a turn real quick. I shared my thoughts with my manager and some people closest to me and I was met with a lot of compassion and understanding and them saying 'I feel a lot of the same way.'" What does the future look like? I had felt that way before and the addition of this very tangible reality of COVID-19 was another addition to that. What's next? Are we ever going to be able to tour again? All of the things we were thinking in our own ways as people who provide for themselves. Those distractions sort of fell to the wayside towards the end of last year-that's when my baseline kind of came to the surface and all my fears, hang-ups, anxieties, and depressive tendencies did rear their ugly heads again."Īfter turning her tea kettle off, she elaborates further. "I've noticed that when I am busy I'm not ruminating or thinking and my mind can't go to those negative places. Even though it was different from the promotion that I'm used to because it was mostly like this, talking to people virtually from my living room, I'm grateful that I got to connect with people in that way because that kept me feeling not alone." That virtual promotional tour wasn't enough to keep JoJo's thoughts at bay, though.
I'm very grateful that I had that to promote last year. And we were all faced with the realities of the pandemic and lockdown and I was releasing an album that I was really proud of. This is about to be awesome.' And then life happens. We were like 'Okay, we got this!' It was the last year of my 20s and I was like 'Oh, I'm about to fuckin' set myself on fire and go to the moon. "I started out 2020 pretty freakin' hopeful and excited and like a lot of us, I think we were optimistic that a new decade, a new year, would be our year.
In her laconic voice register, she candidly spoke of the moments that brought her to making this record, which acts as a time capsule of where the singer was mentally and emotionally during last year. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, JoJo, the chart-topping R&B singer-songwriter and actress, was eager to talk about her upcoming EP as she looked casually chic amid the background of her cozy looking living room.
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