Jessie J's team suggested 'scrapping' new album but she stood firm
Jessie J has revealed why she was adamant about releasing her new album Don't Tease Me With A Good Time despite writing the songs so long ago.
Jessie J admits her team suggesting "scrapping" her new album.
The Price Tag hitmaker returned last month with Don't Tease Me With A Good Time, her first full length project in almost eight years, and she has been working on the record for so long that a lot of the songs don't "represent" how she is now.
Appearing on ITV daytime show This Morning, she said: "I started writing this album in 2019, I finished it in '22, so some of these songs are already five or six years old. Isn't that crazy?
"Everyone was like, 'Shall we just scrap it and start again?' I was like, no, I love this music and I want people to hear it.
"Some of it doesn't even represent me now, but I can reimagine it to now."
The 37-year-old singer joked that waiting almost a decade between albums was "very rude", but the COVID-19 pandemic played a big part.
She quipped: "It's been very rude of me. I put my last album out in 2017, I went back into the studio in 2019 after touring, and then covid and life happened. I feel like I've blinked, and it's just [flown by]."
Earlier this year, she was forced to postpone her UK and European acoustic tour to spring 2026 after the Who You Are singer needed to undergo a second breast cancer surgery.
In June, the Domino star revealed she had undergone a mastectomy after being diagnosed at an early stage.
However, she refused to delay the album, even with No Secrets, the first single for the LP, dropping in April just weeks after she found the lump on her chest.
However, Jessie told her team she wanted to "just keep going, whether I've got cancer or not".
She said: "The amount of people I meet in my job that have been through so much worse, they inspire me to get through these moments.
"My blessings outweigh anything that's happened. The beauty of all of this is I had quality of time with my mum, I'm more present as a parent, my boobs look better - kind of, they're a bit off, but we'll sort it out!
"I'm here, and I've been able to talk to people. The amount of my friends who've checked their breasts and under their arm and said, 'I've found something, I'm gonna get it looked at' that would never have done before.
"We need to talk about it all."
