Music / Jessie Ware

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Jessie Ware (Born October 15th 1984 in London, United Kingdom) is a Pop, R&B, and Disco singer/songwriter.

Discography

• Devotion (2012)
• Tough Love (2014)
• Glasshouse (2017)
• What's your Pleasure? (2020)
• That! Feels Good! (2023)
• Superbloom (2026)

Shake it 'til the Tropes Fall Off:

• Be Yourself: Appropriately the theme of the rhyming "Free Yourself", a song about letting go and doing what makes you happy.
  You are a name, not a number
  Extraordinary colors
  Don't you hide under cover, baby
• Cowboy Episode: "Ride" is a Western-themed disco song featuring an interpolation of Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The music video co-stars James Norton as Jessie's submissive cowboy lover.
  Jump on the saddle, baby, hold on tight
  I need a stallion who can go all night
  Someone to come and blow my mind
  Ooh, come on and ride my love
  Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up
• Curse Cut Short: This fill-in-the-blank couplet from "Shake the Bottle":
  Matthew was a classic, just like his pick up truck
  He still lived with his mother but he sure could (ooh)
• Face on the Cover: The album covers for Devotion and What's your Pleasure? are close up shots of Ware.
• Flowers of Femininity: The Superbloom album cover practically drips with beautiful floral arrangements. The album, musically, explores many themes of love, motherhood, sex, and spring.
• Genre Throwback: Much of her music since What's your Pleasure clearly takes inspiration from the lush Disco arrangements from The '70s with nods to divas like Donna Summer.
• Looped Lyrics: The post-chorus of "Adore You" repeats "I adore you" eight times.
• Melismatic Vocals: A defining feature of her vocal style. Especially notable on songs like "Adore You".
• Meme Acknowledgment: Jessie turned an endearingly cheap MS Paint drawing of the cover of What's Your Pleasure into her profile pic on Instagram.
• New Sound Album: What's your Pleasure? (2020) saw her working with a much more Disco and House inspired sound than her previous records, which had mostly been made up of softer R&B and Sophisti-pop. Since then her albums have continued to explore these inspirations and are filled with much more danceable and energetic grooves.
• Title Track: Besides Glasshouse (2017), all of her albums utilize this trope.