Jessie Reyez is the cover of New Music Daily on Apple Music. She speaks to Zane Lowe about her new song “Love In The Dark.”
On ‘Love In the Dark’, Jessie Reyez said:
I was in Sweden and I was going through some stuff. I was going through some shit. I don’t know man. It’s one of the ones that I cried out and boom. I don’t feel any lighter. I still feel anxious. I want it out. I still feel anxious. I’m happy people are excited, though. I’m really happy but I’m still anxious. I still feel like I just want it out, I want it out. I want it out. I want this out of me. I feel like I’ve been chiseling away at it for so long. I’ve been chiseling, fixing, I’ve been editing, I’ve been perfecting. I’ve been killing songs. It’s got to be the hardest thing about making an album is seeing all the dead songs on the floor being like, Oh, this one’s never going to see the light of day. I love you, but you’re never going to see the light of day. I love you but you don’t fit in this. I love you but… It’s like seeing all your dead kids on the floor.
on being nominated for a Grammy:
Yeah, man, shrug what? I want to win. I was so happy to be nominated but no man, I want to win. That has me mad nervous because it’s something that’s nostalgic, it holds a lot of nostalgia for me. I remember being half my size watching that show and watch anything music-related. I remember watching it with such a dividing emotion because half of me was like, man, I love this. What is this? I love the people that are performing on stage. I love that people are sharing music and the other half of me was like, why the hell am I on this couch? Why the hell am I at home? Why am I not there? And I couldn’t bridge that. I couldn’t bridge my reality to that dream yet.