EXPOSING REPUBLIC RECORDS FOR SABOTAGING JESSIE J'S CAREER: A CONSPIRACY THREAD

THE COMEUP:

Jessica Cornish was recognized as musical prodigy, and was cast in West End and youth theater productions. She attended the BRIT performing arts school in the same graduating class as fellow pop divas Adele and Leona Lewis. Here she is at age 15 singing 'Beautiful'.

After graduating, Jessie singed to a independent UK label and started recording her debut album, but the label went bankrupt before she could release. She transitioned to songwriting full-time during this period and signed a deal with Sony/ATV, the world's biggest music publisher

the song that put her on the map as a writer is the crossover hit 'Party In The USA'. the chorus originally went 'i think i'm gonna like the USA', but it was re-tooled by frequent collaborator Claude Kelly to fit Miley's country girl goes Hollywood image transformation.

In 2008, Jessie was signed to Republic by Jason Flom, founder of the Lava Records label. He is credited with discovering many influential acts such as Katy Perry and Lorde.

In 2009, Jessie began uploading videos of her performing album cuts to her YouTube channel. she later said that she did this to hurry-up the roll out of her debut album. the multi-platinum Who You Are was not released until 2011.

Around this time Jessie wrote 'Do It Like A Dude' after she heard Rude Boy for the first time and wanted to send a demo to Rihanna. her management decided to push the song as Jessie's debut single, and encouraged her to take on a dark pop persona like Rihanna's Rated R era image.

after Do It Like A Dude peaked at number two on the UK singles chart, Jessie made her international debut with 'Price Tag'. the smash hit has been certified 4x platinum in the US.

all seven singles from Who You Are charted within the top 10 of the official UK singles chart. this is feat that has not been achieved by any British female.

despite the massive success of her debut, Jessie did not get a lot of support for her sophomore album, Alive. the American distributors at Republic refused to sell the album unless she recorded new tracks. this is probably why she rushed to get the third album out within a year.

around this time Jessie relocated to the US both to appease her label, and to escape the toxic British media

SWEET TALKER ERA

this is the album that really represents the peak of Jessie losing creative control over what she put out, and it makes a lot of sense that she took a very long break before coming back with anything else after this

the lead single still is Jessie's biggest hit. the Max Martin track was first recorded as an Ariana solo before she scrapped it. Jessie recorded the song herself and wanted Nicki Minaj on it. Ariana jumped back on after hearing Nicki's verse and made the song a classic diva duet.

while Jessie has only has positive things to say about the song, it is notably the first song she ever released without being credited as a writer. this reflects the direction Jessie was being pushed in for the album. on the standard edition Jessie only has five writing credits.

this was a very big departure for Jessie as an artist. on her first two albums Jessie is credited as a writer on every single track, and she always stresses in interviews the importance of songwriting and being true to herself.

the bonus edition of Sweet Talker adds three songs with Jessie credited as a writer to the track list. i believe the closing track 'You Don't Really Know Me' is explicitly about her self-image at this point.

"The girl who always says yes wants to scream no ..... But I'm fighting through a nightmare Cause I'm not really being me"

nearly four years later, Jessie J came back with the confessional lead single, Think About That. 'Think about that time when I got sick and you made me go on stage ...
Think about that time you told my label lies, you said, "She's crazy"' Jessie says all of this actually happened

Jessie's fourth album represents Jessie taking on more creative control over her work than she ever had in the past. she recorded the whole record without Republic's knowledge, and only 4 producers in total are credited on the final product.

Jessie explaining why she needs to make music that reflects her conscious, her politics, her insecurities, etc

more of Jessie explaining her songwriting process for R.O.S.E.

Jessie explaining why she chose a very small circle of collaborators to work with on R.O.S.E., and why she kept the recording process a secret from even her label

Jessie explains the difference between performing songs she wrote and performing songs that were given to her

Jessie is following the example of the queen diva songwriting songstress. here's Mariah speaking on the importance of songwriting and controlling your image and your catalogue.

Republic was'nt happy with Jessie's new direction, and forced her to release the project as four separate EPs instead of one album with four volumes. because of this rollout, ROSE probably doesn't even fullfill Jessie's contractual obligation to release a certain number of albums