Listen to JADE’s powerful new single ‘IT Girl’

JADE has shared a brand new single – listen to the powerful ‘IT Girl’ below.

“‘IT Girl’ is the c**nty little sister to ‘Angel of My Dreams’,” JADE said of the new song. “There’s still so much that people don’t know about me, so I was eager to surprise people and prod the bear a bit.”

She added: “I have to write about my experiences in my own melodramatic way. I’m not going to sugarcoat it.”

Listen to the new single below.

JADE was named our Trailblazer at last year’s Rolling Stone UK Awards 2024, and appears on the cover of The Awards Issue of the magazine. She also performed a stunning stripped-back version of her debut solo single ‘Angel of My Dreams’ live at the Roundhouse on the night.

Read JADE’s Rolling Stone UK cover feature in full here and go behind the scenes of her cover shoot here.

In the cover feature, JADE also discussed her mixed heritage and her initial hesitation to represent it in her work. In the cover feature, JADE – who is half Arab: one-quarter Yemeni, one-quarter Egyptian – discusses how she initially struggled to work out how to honour her heritage in her work, saying that she is now trying to make it a clearer part of her artistic identity.

“I’d only ever seen negative stereotypes of Arab people in the press, so I was scared to promote my heritage,” she told Rolling Stone UK. “I feel sad for my younger self that I could’ve been the representation I needed back then. I try to make up for that now.”

She also told Rolling Stone UK of her initial fears of being placed in Little Mix. JADE discussed how she believed she wasn’t “conventional” enough to fit in a girl band, saying: “I didn’t see myself as a conventional girl’s girl. I was nerdy and quiet.

“When they told me I was gonna be put in a girl group, I automatically thought of Pussycat Dolls. I thought, ‘Oh no, I’m not sexy — and if they’re bitchy, I’ll struggle because I’m not confrontational at all. I shrink at any drama.’”