WA’s Samantha Jade rides highs and lows of love in ''Love.Sick Volume 2'' in follow-up to 2022 EP
Life as a pop star is not always peachy, as Perth-born singer Samantha Jade has come to learn.
Releasing her first EP since 2022 on a Friday — a follow-up album titled ''Love.Sick Volume 2'' — Jade has written, and ridden, the highs and lows of love as expressed through her nostalgic single ''Peachy''.
Produced by Grammy-nominated Morgan Taylor Reid, the 37-year-old suggests her five-track EP will have fans reaching for the tissues — whether they’re in love or out of it.
But don’t expect a seismic shift from her sonic identity.
“I’ve kept it in the pop world. That’s what i like to do, and i’m calling it a love letter to love”, Jade told ''PerthNow'', “So finding love, losing love. They’re all kind of up tempos and fun and then there’s one ballad and it’s about my mum. It’s called ''New Me'' and it’s about losing love, and really how hard it is to kind of move on from that.”
Little recent public acknowledgement of her husband, former ''Sony Music'' executive Pat Handlin, has fuelled speculation the couple might have separated.
Asked if the upbeat ''Peachy'' was directly inspired by her romantic relationship, the Sydney-based artist remained tight-lipped about her muse:
“I think when you’re writing a love song, you obviously think about the person you love”, Jade reflected before admitting the ode to love was not penned solely by her; “I didn’t write this alone, I wrote with three other people. And i think we all kind of pulled from our versions of when you find that someone that you feel really knows you and really loves you.”
Reinforcing her prerogative of keeping the public out of her private life, Jade added:
“I try and keep some stuff for me. Of course, you don’t want everything to be shown — no one would.”
Dropping ''What You’ve Done To Me'' as her X-Factor winner’s single in 2012, local fans of the WA-raised artist might be shocked to learn she was credited in a Hollywood film as an 18-year-old living in California.
Awaiting her Perth homecoming at the time, a fateful call from her then-record label catapulted the emerging talent into the studio and onto the LA streets to shoot a ground-breaking video clip:
“They’re like: ''We’re so sorry, you’re not gonna be able to go home because you’re gonna have to record this song. There’s this movie coming out called ''Step Up'', and we’d love for you to be on the soundtrack”, Jade recalled, “Then they sent me the people on the soundtrack and i was like: ‘Hang on. Amazing. I need to like, check myself here.’”
Meeting acting star Channing Tatum at ''Step Up’s premiere — the film that launched his career — Jade’s title track ''Step Up'' features alongside hits by household names Chris Brown, Ciara and Shaun Paul:
“Cut to now every single person is like: ''I cannot believe you’re on that soundtrack. I didn’t know it was you singing that song i knew in high school”, she smiled.
With family on the West Coast close to her heart while thousands of kilometres away, the singer lost her mother to cancer in 2014 and finds catharsis in returning home “more often than people think”:
“Cottesloe Beach is my favourite and it was my mum’s favourite place. So when i want to feel close to her, i go there and i definitely feel her”, Jade revealed.
Admitting she’s a fan of fellow Perth-raised artist Troye Sivan, the pair’s families met when Jade opened for One Direction in 2015.
With Sivan making his ''Telethon'' debut in 2006 as an 11-year-old, Jade is set to headline this october’s heart-warming iteration following several memorable performances at the annual fundraiser prior to COVID-19.
After her second-place finish in ''Dancing With The Stars Australia'' earlier this week, 2024 might prove to be the busiest and most physically demanding of Jade’s career.
With arguably the 21st century’s most iconic dance film as her professional introduction to the art form, the part-time turned full-time dancer revealed a newfound respect for her supporting acts:
“Now i watch them in a different way, because i know how hard this is”, she said.
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