Jade was a little afraid to shuffle her music library for Rolling Stone’s Song Shuffle series. Backstage at Lollapalooza, the pop phenom admitted she’d only recently discovered the like button on Spotify and described what she’d added so far as “quite eclectic.” It feels almost fated, then, that the first song to play at random from her liked songs library is Little Mix’s “DNA.” For anyone unfamiliar, “DNA” is one of the loudest songs in the history of recorded music. However loud you think it might be, it’s about 200 decibels higher.
It’s her voice that sets the stage for the song’s thunderous chorus. One of the best girl bands ever.” She remembers writing the song fresh out of school, before her brain had a chance to switch over from academics to full-blown pop stardom. She used her textbook to help come up with the lyrics.
Jade admittedly has some skips when it comes to listening to Little Mix. She was like the fifth member of Little Mix.” The next song in the shuffle is also close to home: “It Girl” from Jade’s debut solo album, That’s Showbiz Baby! Editor’s picks The 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century So Far The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century From there, Jade’s library goes a bit rogue.
There’s “What You Own” from the cast recording of Rent, one of her top three musicals — her dog is named after Rosario Dawson’s character, Mimi. When I first started writing my debut record, we spent literally months together, just hashing out what my sound was going to be. I’ll never forget that he did that for me.” MNEK has an album of his own, Bulldozer, coming in September.
Shouting out one last song, Jade lands on “Plastic Box” from That’s Showbiz Baby. I know you had Pinkpantheress on here before. It’s one of her faves,” Jade said.
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