neighbor of neighbor Jesse Rutherford has resurrected his solo project Jesse® — and he’s got something to do. The 31-year-old musician last shared songs under this moniker in 2019. Since then, his 6-year relationship with the model Devon Lee Carlson is over. His band took an indefinite hiatus. and he sobered up He now meets his current girlfriend, Billie Eilish, 21, who has brought color to his new singles “Joker” and “Rainbow.”
“It’s been a minute since I shared anything. Felt like moving out of home & got a new phone number. This is my message to let you know I’m back in town and trying to stay together,” Jesse® shared in a statement about the song. This is his first release under a new contract with Atlantic Records.
“It was truly a solo journey. And the music was just the soundtrack to the movie that told me what I was going through in my life. And I think it’s a good time to grow as an individual. Because I spent my time and energy growing within the relationship. Which is great,” he told Zane Lowe on Apply Music 1. I love and I love all my relationships. And I feel that I have many strong people. and even those who did not last long I felt pretty. And no one was pessimistic or anything. And I just need time for myself It was like it had to happen sooner or later. So this is the best time to do it.”
We last heard from Rutherford about “Fallen Star,” a 2021 single Neighborhood that never made an album. “Try to find the right time to tell you things you might not like to hear.” He sings about growing apart from his duet on the melancholic record. He found somewhere – and there was someone new –
“Diamonds and spades/Jack of all trades/I had trouble finding my place/Been around the king I had a queen/Lost in the club with my heart on my sleeve,” he sings. In the song “Joker” which is streamed -A record of self-consciousness with the children’s musical “Merry Go Round”. “Can’t play your game. I tried to change/paint the face. Give it a new name/is it fun?”
Jesse® emerges on the other side of “Joker”’s failure in “Rainbow,” a bright song about finding happiness after the storm. “I see an aura above your head. You are my angel/I must have died/I had to say goodbye to go find gold on the other side/I saw the future after our past. I’m not ready for It will last forever.” He sang, and then came back: “I’ve got someone else. There’ll never be another like you/You drive me crazy I might throw up/You bastard, you’re too easy to love/My mom even likes you.”
Rutherford and Eilish first stepped out over Halloween weekend in matching costumes. He was dressed as an old man and she was a baby. With an age difference of almost 11 years, much of the criticism of their relationship has its roots in their first meeting in 2017, when the pop singers were around 15 or 16.
In September of last year, Eilish credited Rutherford’s band for inspiring her live approach. “Since the first concert I ever saw – which was The Neighborhood That completely changed my life – I tried to make my show feel like it really was,” Eilish told Zane Lowe at the time. “It was inspiring. The feeling I got at the start of the show It’s stuck in the chest. Not even explained properly My main goal is for everyone to have that feeling in my performance.”
during her sixth year Vanity Fair Interviewed just a month later, Eilish gushed: “I’ve tried to bring my life to the point where I was not only known by people I thought were the hottest daredevils. But I also pulled his ass. Are we kidding me? Can we just… give me a round of applause? thank you! Jesse Rutherford everyone.”
Jesse will follow up next month with “Joker” and “Rainbow” with “Me & Universe,” followed by his third solo release later this year.
