Jade Thirlwall – member of former pop monolith Little Combine – has launched her debut single, ‘Angel of My Goals’, and its accompanying music video.
The music video for the debut solo single, each of which dropped right this moment (19 July), sees Jade as numerous pop stars, all operating on the hamster wheel of the business, below the watchful eye of a grasping supervisor.
The video begins with Jade busking – interspersed with photographs from real-life Jade’s X Issue audition – as one other model of the star in a large blonde pop star wig, on the brief leash of a grasping music supervisor in a vile tracksuit, is paraded round for paparazzi.
As busker Jade begins to sing, the grasping boss’s consideration slips from pop star Jade, as he focuses in on his new goal – the brand new angel of his goals. Oh, it’s all very intelligent.
There’s a lyrical nod to Jade’s previous within the music’s first verse that goes: “Bought my soul to a psycho”. ‘Psycho’ occurs to sound quite a bit like ‘SyCo’ – the previous label of Little Combine, run by X Issue decide Simon Cowell. A coincidence, we’re certain.
Anyway, busker Jade is now the brand new pop icon, and with a contract signed in blood below her belt, issues go effectively for some time. However then, the grasping boss is seen having an affair with a yet one more new Jade, with our unique preventing for his consideration simply as her predecessor did.
The video ends with OG Jade again the place she began, peering by way of crowds of followers for the brand new angel of everybody’s goals.
There’s dance breaks, there’s costume modifications, there’s vocals and there’s a “Puppet on a String” pattern from Sandie Shaw’s 1967 hit. It’s, to be blunt, c**ty.
Talking in regards to the single, Jade mentioned that “Angel of My Goals” is meant to be a “pop punch to the face”.
“I would like folks to be like ‘oh my god, I didn’t anticipate that’ – however then need to hearken to it once more,” she defined. “I didn’t need to do a protected first single, that was actually necessary to me.”
“I’m setting the tone of who I’m as an artist alone. I would like folks to listen to it and be like ‘what the f**okay is that music?’. My worst nightmare is for somebody to listen to my music and go ‘that’s good’,” the South Shields-born icon and fierce LGBTQ+ ally acknowledged.
“Angel of My Goals” by Jade is offered to stream now.