Go behind the scenes of Rolling Stone UK’s cover shoot with JADE

Jade Thirlwall – aka JADE – is the cover star of issue 20 of Rolling Stone UK – go behind the scenes of her cover shoot in our new video below.

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JADE was named our Trailblazer at last month’s Rolling Stone UK Awards 2024, and appears on the cover of The Awards Issue of the magazine.

In the BTS video, JADE was asked to describe her upcoming debut album in three words, responding: “Chaotic. Poptastic. C***.”

She also talked influences, guilty pleasures, Halloween costumes and more. You can watch the video below, and read JADE’s Rolling Stone UK cover feature in full here.

Elsewhere in the cover, 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.’”