Joe Jonas
Since debuting as a Disney star alongside his brothers two decades ago, Joe Jonas has largely released music either as a part of the Jonas Brothers trio or with his rock band DNCE. Jonas ventured out on his own with his 2011 debut solo album Fastlife, but it’s been more than a decade since fans have heard him take center stage on such a project.
Jonas’ sophomore solo album Music for People Who Believe in Love is out now, and the LP is a worth-the-wait reintroduction to the middle Jonas brother after the group reunited for 2019’s Happiness Begins and 2023’s The Album. The idea to make a new solo project came about when he heard a new track from producer friends and felt it didn’t sound like a Jonas Brothers song or a DNCE song.
“I was like, ‘I don’t know what it’s for but I know I want to work on something. I feel the pull emotionally to work on music,’” he said on the Therapuss podcast of the project. “And so I asked my brothers’ blessings, and I was like, ‘I don’t want to call it solo, but I want to go do something on my own, and I don’t feel like it’s DNCE and I need to go just express some stuff for myself.’”
Jonas teased the album’s release last year with the singles “Work It Out” and “What This Could Be” and last month with “Heart by Heart.” Getting to look inward and open up on tracks like “My Own Best Friend” and “Constellation” was an enriching experience for the singer.
“The last album that I did by myself, I’m very proud of. There were a lot of cooks in the kitchen at that time in my life. I was surrounded by a lot of people that I just said, ‘Yes, and’ to,” he recounted to Billboard. “Now, knowing who I am, feeling confident, and looking at my life, I’m so grateful for the friends and family I have around me. And I get to do it again 20-something years later, and find creative ways to speak to what I’ve been through. I know the difference of when it’s a [Jonas] Brothers song or a DNCE song; the music I’ve been making felt really personal. And I selfishly didn’t want to share it with other people. This needed to come from my voice in particular.”
The Jonas Brothers will come back together for the Jonas20: Living the Dream Tour this summer and fall starting Aug. 10 in East Rutherford, New Jersey and wrapping up Nov. 14 in Uncasville, Connecticut.
