As Jess Glynne prepares to launch a new era of music, the singer talks to RollingStoneUK about why she's owning up to past indiscretions and starting afresh.
I think in my whole career, I’ve always been quite elusive,” Jess Glynne says as we sit and drink tea in her North London kitchen, a bright basement that backs onto her garden. “And I’ve always kind of hidden a lot behind my music. And I don’t like to share a lot with the world because I’m scared of it.” She lets out a laugh.
she sings over a bluesy guitar line. It’s a song that will resonate with anyone who spent their teens and twenties trying to figure out who they really are. Sitting across her kitchen counter from me, Glynne is friendly, fully engaged and happy to address her highs and lows head-on. Her answers to certain questions err on the side of caution, but it would probably feel strange if she suddenly became an over-sharer after years of being, as she put it herself, “quite elusive”.
Around a week after 2019’s Isle of Wight controversy, Glynne announced she was pulling out of several other festivals on the advice of her throat surgeon. In the same statement, she addressedthat she spent the night before her nixed Isle of Wight gig allegedly “partying with the Spice Girls”. “It is true that I went out and celebrated the end of the Spice tour,” she said at the time. “That was a massive high for me and I wanted to mark it with the women who’d become friends and mentors to me.
Glynne definitely had to do this in March 2021 when she used a transphobic slur on Mo Gilligan’s podcast. She was widely criticised not just for saying the outdated term, but also for the misjudged anecdote it featured in, which hinged on taking a “bad man” to a trans strip club and sharing his seemingly surprised reaction.
Glynne’s accompanying caption reads: “Do you have anything else to say?” Given that Brits especially love a pop star who doesn’t take themselves too seriously, more posts in this vein would surely be a savvy move. Today, Glynne says she has “a new take” on social media, though she also admits with a laugh: “I am a bit scared of it, coming back. I’m sure there’s gonna be a million, you know, trolls and nasty things come up. There’s gonna be hopefully a million nice things [too].
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