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\n\t\t\tLEXI JAYDE FINDS HER HAPPY ENDING<\/span>
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For most of her 24 years, singer-songwriter Lexi Jayde has felt like she\u2019s had to chase after love. With her debut album, LOVER GIRL<\/em>, she\u2019s realising that love\u2019s been running after her all along.<\/h3>\n
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\"Lexi<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The greatest love story that Los Angeles-born Lexi Jayde has ever known is that of her parents. \u201cThey are really, really in love,\u201d she says, eyes sparkling. \u201cThey did such a good job of making me feel like a love like theirs is actually out there because that\u2019s all I\u2019ve had to watch growing up. I had such a good reference of what love looked like.\u201d From childhood to teenagehood and now her early 20s, she\u2019s spent life chasing a love like theirs. But reality bursts the bubble that fantasy leaves room for, and that was the case for Jayde. \u201cWhen I got into the real world, I was like, \u2018Where\u2019s my Prince Charming? When is he coming to pick me up?\u2019 And then I got stabbed in the heart and got my heart broken.\u201d And what do you do when life gives you heartbreak? Well, you make an album.<\/p>\n

Three EPs deep and her debut album LOVER GIRL<\/a><\/em>, out today (Friday 21st August) via Columbia Records, she delicately traces the tangled web of one\u2019s early 20s, returning to one common denominator across all 14 tracks: love that surpasses mere romance. It\u2019s Lexi Jayde meets Carrie Bradshaw, with a touch of The Notebook<\/em> and a dash of The 10 Things I Hate About You<\/em>. Between frolicking in Central Park fountains in ruffled chiffon dresses, looking up, simultaneously hopeless and hopeful, at the sky, and bus rides wearing \u2018you\u2019re just a waste of good mascara\u2019 stamped tops, the 24-year-old singer-songwriter captures the whimsy and wrangling that heartache often catalyses in all areas of life.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a big week for Miss Jayde. When we speak, she\u2019s set to spend the evening with her friends at a fan event in anticipation of the album, while also being two days out from her 24th birthday. Her joy is hard to miss. It\u2019s so plainly written across a frequent wide smile that reaches her squinted eyes. \u201cI\u2019m actually having a girls dinner on Wednesday night for my birthday, and the theme is Disney Princesses \u2013 of course, I\u2019m turning 24, and I want a princess party,\u201d she laughs, mostly at herself.<\/p>\n

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Beyond playing mid-week Princess dress-up, Jayde takes on the role of a people\u2019s princess of sorts. Wherever she goes, she\u2019s covered in love, if not exuding it \u2013 and that\u2019s wholeheartedly intentional. \u201cI feel like I surround myself with a lot of lover girls,\u201d she says. \u201cMy girlfriends, all my best friends, are lover girls.\u201d Naturally, with matters pertaining to lover girls, Taylor Swift, who Jayde deems \u201cthe biggest lover girl\u201d, gets swept into the conversation, and \u201cThe Climb\u201d by Miley Cyrus gets mentioned as her \u201cfavourite song of all time\u201d \u2013 \u201cIt got me through the toughest times in my life, still to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, when she\u2019s walking through New York\u2019s Perry Street, where Miss Bradshaw resided in the city\u2019s West Village, she leaves a trail of smiles and compliments. So, it was second nature that her debut album would be a total labour of love. \u201cI\u2019ve learned over the past few years that it\u2019s not a weakness. It\u2019s actually such a gift to wear your heart on your sleeve and love so hard and want to feel things deeply and over-romanticise life, especially in a time where the world kind of feels really daunting,\u201d she exhales.<\/p>\n

That doom-and-gloom feeling becomes an undercurrent through which LOVER GIRL<\/em> simmers. \u201cIt isn\u2019t just about romance \u2013 it\u2019s so much more,\u201d she insists. \u201cIt\u2019s choosing to love over and over and over again after being hurt. It\u2019s choosing to see the beauty and<\/em> the pain. It\u2019s dancing in the rain and doing all the clich\u00e9 Rom-Com-my things \u2013 living like your life is a movie.\u201d But every movie has a great plot, and Jayde\u2019s had to kick into action for her to unlock the epiphanies on this record.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I wrote this [album], I was a girl who was lost and trying to find herself,\u201d she shares. \u201cI was putting everybody else\u2019s needs before my own, and going through a lot mentally. I hit a lot of bumps in the road, and I had to grow some balls and confidence to really put myself first.\u201d Ultimately, the solution seemed glaringly obvious: \u201cI didn\u2019t want to be my biggest enemy anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

This all comes to a sombre settle on the album\u2019s seventh track, \u201cbubblebath\u201d. A frustration-pinched song that spills straight from Jayde\u2019s diary pages to a Lana Del Rey-esque melody, it begins and ends with \u201cI\u2019m in my head again, I\u2019m coming down \/ I\u2019ll take a bubble bath, drown it all out<\/em>\u201d. It becomes the undoubted \u201cheartbeat\u201d of LOVER GIRL<\/em>.<\/p>\n

After \u201ca tough four years\u201d dealing with anxiety and panic attacks for the first time, her nervous system went haywire. The bathtub became the place where she found daily solitude. \u201cI remember this one night I was in my bath staring at the ceiling, thinking \u2018My world is falling apart, this feels like the end, this is the lowest it\u2019s gonna get.\u2019 And I just kept asking myself, \u2018Am I going to feel like this forever?\u2019 \u2018Is it ever going to get better than this?\u2019\u201d The line, \u201cLosing my lover girl, where is she gone? \/ I used to feel everything, and now I\u2019m just numb<\/em>\u201d, becomes the point where revelation clicks into place: \u201cI lost my lover girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

That mid-album processing gave her room to reckon with exactly who she was, and feel it fully without shame. From \u201cdelusional\u201d to \u201ci want him bad\u201d and \u201cwhen does it end?\u201d, all of that explicit \u2013 or suggested \u2013 cheek is underpinned by an ache that can only be justified by love. \u201cThe beauty is that I came back stronger,\u201d she proclaims. \u201cThis song is so special to me, and talks about something very vulnerable, things that are really hard to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that it\u2019s releasing this week, Jayde can only describe it as having been \u201csuch a trip\u201d. It\u2019s been daunting, it\u2019s been scary, but her debut album \u201cended up being perfect\u201d. \u201cI couldn\u2019t sleep last night, I couldn\u2019t sleep five nights ago,\u201d she laughs. \u201cThis has been something that has been slowly brewing in my body, and now, this is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just the album that\u2019s happening: \u201cTour is next,\u201d Jayde gleams, offering her fans some reassurance. \u201cI haven\u2019t announced it yet, but I\u2019m very excited to start getting on the road again.\u201d But let not the message of her debut record go amiss. \u201cIf you are striving to have that happy ending, fairytale kind of love, it is out there. We can\u2019t let these stupid boys make us feel like it\u2019s not,\u201d she says, clapping her hands together. \u201cWe\u2019re bringing back yearning. That\u2019s why I\u2019m releasing LOVER GIRL<\/em> \u2013 bring back lovers!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo many times in my life, my shoe has fallen off, and I\u2019ve asked, \u2018Where\u2019s my Prince?\u2019\u201d But as the saying goes, sometimes, you have to kiss a few frogs to find your Prince Charming. And though she\u2019s ribbited through a few flukes, she\u2019s finally landed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very in love right now. I\u2019m in something good for the first time,\u201d she says through closed, wishful eyes. \u201cIt\u2019s really weird\u2026And interesting. My whole life I\u2019ve always wanted this and now I have it and I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh my gosh, there\u2019s no fighting, there\u2019s no questioning.\u2019 It\u2019s learning to just accept it.\u201d That sounds like the perfect happy ending to me Lexi.<\/p>\n

Lexi Jayde\u2019s debut album LOVER GIRL<\/a> is out now on all streaming platforms.<\/em><\/p>\n

Words<\/strong> \u2013 Aswan Magumbe<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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