{"id":804714,"date":"2020-02-28T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=959521"},"modified":"2020-02-28T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T14:05:00","slug":"jessie-reyez-talks-new-album-morbidness-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/jessie-reyez-talks-new-album-morbidness-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessie Reyez Talks New Album, Morbidness of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-28-at-8.57.18-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jessie-reyez\/\">Jessie Reyez\u2019s<\/a> interview on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-daily-show\/\"><em>The Daily Show<\/em><\/a> Thursday night was a surprisingly profound one. When host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/trevor-noah\/\">Trevor Noah<\/a> asked Reyez why she had named her upcoming album <em>Before Love Came to Kill Us<\/em>, he got a pretty morbid answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSad songs have a little love, and even love songs have a little bit of sadness because you know, love can\u2019t last because nobody gets out of love alive,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs love the coronavirus?\u201d Noah quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Reyez explained that statistically speaking, there is a slim chance of finding the love of your life \u2014 and if you do find the love of your life, you\u2019re with them literally until death do you part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone has to die,\u201d she insisted. \u201cYou don\u2019t survive love \u2014 but you know what, if you keep that in mind, then today you might not cheat. If you know tomorrow\u2019s your last day, then today you might not be a jerk. Today you might be authentically yourself if you know tomorrow it could be all over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reyez was raised as a child of Colombian immigrants in Canada and adopted the hustle mentality from her parents; before she was a Grammy-nominated recording artist, she busked for money and worked bartending shifts until six in the morning, leaving little time for her to go out to the club with her friends unless she was performing at the venue. It\u2019s the reason why she didn\u2019t go to Coachella until she was asked to perform there \u2014 \u201cWhy would I go if I\u2019m not making money?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JfYthPn42Po?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Later on the show, Reyez performed \u201cFar Away,\u201d her migrant love song from the new album, out March 27th. The singer gave an emotional rendition of the song before telling the audience at the end, \u201cNo matter what color we are, we all bleed red.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jessie-reyez-daily-show-trevor-noah-959521\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessie Reyez\u2019s interview on&nbsp;The Daily Show Thursday night was a surprisingly profound one. When host Trevor Noah asked Reyez why she had named her upcoming album Before Love Came to Kill Us, he got a pretty morbid answer. \u201cSad songs have a little love, and even love songs have a little bit of sadness because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 08:11:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}