Jessie J gets candid about her journey of grief, healing and joy on her new album, Don’t Tease Me With A Good Time.
Jessie J has released her long-awaited new album, Don’t Tease Me With A Good Time, her first full-length project in almost eight years.
The record, now available worldwide, captures a deeply personal journey through grief, healing, and joy, blending multiple genres and emotions into a layered body of work.
Reflecting on the release, Jessie said: “It’s been eight years since my last body of work. I am so overjoyed this is finally being shared with the world, working with people so special and fun like Ryan Tedder and Jesse Boykins’s, los hendrix and Marty Maro. This music is so layered and stretched over so many emotional and celebratory years of my life. Crossing many genres and feelings. The songs are a journey of grief to joy. Finding the light, and life after loss. A journey so many of us go through and I hope these songs can hold the hand of anyone in need of a soundtrack to a good or bad time. I love making music, I love sharing, I love connecting. I love an adventure. Don’t tease me with a good time.”
The album’s release comes as Jessie denied that the track Threw It Away is a diss aimed at her ex, Channing Tatum.
Speculation was sparked by the fiery lyrics: “Don’t ya dare rewrite the story. I’m the beauty, you’re the beast.”
Taking to her Instagram Stories, she said: “Threw it away is NOT about @channingtatum I NEVER said it was.
“The reason I am saying something is because I know if the shoe was on the other foot he would correct the narrative too.”
She continued: “I would never want his beautiful daughter to ever read any of it or be told about it thinking I said it about her Dad. Not fair.
“Channing and I ended our relationship on great terms and I have nothing but respect for him, he was never a beast to me.”
The Price Tag hitmaker, 37, dated the Magic Mike star, 45, from 2018 to 2020.
Meanwhile, the Who You Are singer will return to London’s O2 Arena next week to perform at Capital’s Jingle Bell Ball 2025.
Looking ahead, Jessie will embark on a rescheduled UK and European acoustic tour in 2026. The run begins in Birmingham on April 7, followed by nine dates across the UK and Europe. Highlights include a performance at The London Palladium on April 8, before the tour wraps up in Brussels.
The shows were originally planned for this year but were postponed as the singer needed to undergo a second breast cancer surgery. The operation was then delayed, leaving the star “frustrated”. The Domino singer revealed in June that she underwent a mastectomy after being diagnosed at an early stage.
