Joe Jonas Begged His Supervisor to Let Him Leak His Solo Album Early (Unique)

Joe Jonas‘ Music for People Who Believe in Love is lastly out, however it took some time to get right here.

The 35-year-old began writing for the album, his second solo mission and a long-awaited follow-up to 2011’s Fastlife, principally accidentally.

“We had been writing for a camp for the [Jonas] Brothers. I simply felt so drawn to this one music, and I requested the blokes for approval,” he tells PEOPLE. “I used to be like, ‘Hey, can I please take this one and possibly simply discover the place this might go for myself?’ It felt very private.”

This was March of final yr, and he remembers Nick‘s response to his request properly. “Nick’s phrases had been like, ‘I imply, I get it. I am jealous, however I get it.’ He is like, ‘I did not write on it, so I am unable to actually say no.'”

After that, Joe and a group of writers, together with Justin Trainor, Alexander 23 and Lush, “simply carried on and made the album in two-some weeks.”

Given how briskly the album that culminated in Music for People Who Believe in Love got here collectively, followers may surprise why it has been greater than a yr that Joe has been “sitting on” the mission, which he initially introduced would drop in October.

“I used to be desirous to get it out for some time there. I believe final yr in some unspecified time in the future, I known as my supervisor, I used to be like, ‘Can I simply leak the album or put it out?’ I used to be like, ‘I am uninterested in ready.'”

He was “satisfied to not,” however now he is glad he waited, particularly since his most recent single, “Heart by Heart,” he “would not have had [on the album] if I did not maintain onto it. So I am glad I waited.”

The identical could be stated for just a few different songs on the 14-track album, as he says he stored round 70% of the mission from the writing camp final March, however “there was some fine-tuning.”

“There have been some options that I used to be in a position to attain out to. There’s seven or eight options on the album, which is type of wild.”

Although he is blissful he waited to drop it, he is maintained that very same need to launch the mission for the final yr. “I am simply keen,” he says. “It’s totally private to me, and I am excited that I lastly get to share it … after holding onto it for a yr.”

The album is, musically, “a bit bit all around the map genre-wise,” he says. “And that was type of intentional.”

“I went on a highway journey final yr from L.A. to Houston and obtained an RV and drove. I listened to the whole lot from nation western that I grew up listening to, to different rock stuff that I liked listening to once I moved to New York. The sound type of married that, and I adopted this journey with these songwriters and producers that — we simply went there.”

In the course of the recording course of, he had “a number of rooms going directly,” with Alexander 23 in a single room that was “extra synth-based and upbeat and guitar-driven,” after which he was “doing stuff that was 12-string guitars and nation” in one other room.

“I had these two completely different sounds that I felt like nonetheless blended properly collectively. We did not play one another the music, so I might go room to room and write.”

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“I really feel like what it says, emotionally, I believe it speaks to gratitude and therapeutic,” he shares. “It speaks to the concept that I’ve birds’ eye view checked out my life, and I am so blissful for the folks in my life and the chums I’ve and household and that I get to do that for twenty-some years.”