![]() ![]() ![]() JESSIA also wrote and recorded her second track ‘I Should Quit’ from her childhood bedroom. I’m taking that and running with it and opening up all the jars and spilling all of the (stuff) everywhere. “That song broke all these boundaries of things I could talk about and subjects that would be considered taboo or too far. “I feel like a lot of women have a lot of songs that hype you up and tell you that your body is great, men don’t really have that and I think men experience body dysmorphia and insecurities as much as women do and it’s just not talked about as much,” JESSIA said. She says teenage boys and postpartum moms send her messages telling her the song made them feel good about their body. One thing JESSIA especially loves about ‘I’m Not Pretty’ is the fact that it’s not a gendered song, so the community of listeners that connect to it is broad. It’s just the beginning, get ready guys,” said the rising Canadian pop star. Within the last seven months, she’s performed live at Lollapalooza Chicago music festival, shot and released two music videos, collaborated with her songwriter idols Ryan Tedder (lead singer of OneRepublic) and Justin Tranter, and was the top emerging artist on Canada’s billboard charts for more than 10 weeks. JESSIA signed a five-year contract with Republic Records shortly after releasing ‘I’m Not Pretty’ as a TikTok video clip in January 2021. Big props to my mom,” said JESSIA, who graduated from Ucluelet Secondary School in 2012 and went on to pursue a music degree at MacEwan University in Edmonton. Her encouragement is definitely the reason why those verses are as ballsy as they are. “I came to my mom about all these subjects and she told me that this needs to be said. Verses like ‘But I can’t find a way to lose weight / Without literally starving’ and ‘But sometimes I hate myself / I get inside my head and I think that I somehow deserve this’ poured onto the page. She remembers penning the lyrics to ‘I’m Not Pretty’ over Christmas 2020 from her childhood bedroom in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island. With her inspiring single ‘I’m Not Pretty’ going viral and catapulting her onto the Rolling Stone Breakthrough 25, West Coast born and raised pop singer-songwriter JESSIA proclaims to be part of a new wave of “real music that’s breaking down boundaries.” ![]()
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