Jessie Ware was warned she’d "lost" herself as a songwriter during the making of her new album.
The 32-year-old singer – who is set to release her third album, ‘Glasshouse’, in October – has revealed that after playing some of her new music to her long-time collaborator Benny Blanco, he told the ‘Wildest Moments’ hitmaker that the material didn’t sound like her.
The singer shared: "He said it sounded like I’d lost myself a bit.
"I was pregnant and scared about providing for my child, so my first thought was, ‘I have to write a hit’.
"Then I threw all of that out of the window and tried to make music I enjoyed. That’s when I feel like my personality came back. I don’t know if I wrote a hit but I definitely wrote music that I like more."
Jessie gave birth to her first child – a baby girl – with husband Sam Burrows in September last year, and she admitted it’s transpired to be a turning point in her musical career.
She told the i newspaper: "It was the best thing that could have happened for my work. I wrote eight of the 12 new songs since she’s been born.
"She’s made me more focused and more driven. I’m more decisive now."
Jessie – whose song about her husband, called ‘Sam’, was co-written by Ed Sheeran – revealed that much of her new album will focus on her family life.
She explained: "It’s about Sam, it’s about my mother, it’s about waiting to be a mum.
"[Sam] is so oblivious that I’ve written a lot of songs about him. He doesn’t need this adoration or acknowledgement, he’s pretty secure in our relationship.
"But I rely on him. He makes it all possible."
Jessie Ware ‘lost herself’ writing her latest album
