Jess Glynne reveals she nearly quit music due to “the scrutiny”

nme.com:

Jess Glynne has revealed that she almost quit music altogether due to “the scrutiny” she faced online.The ‘Rather Be’ hitmaker opened up about the situation in a new interview with The Independent.

She explained that the “way it [online criticism] made me feel, the pure slog, the scrutiny,” were driving factors as to why she debated leaving her music career behind.“The amount that I’ve put in and the self-belief and the fight and the battles (I’ve gone through with) myself and with people around me to get to where I am, I was like: ‘Nah man, you can’t throw it all away,'” she told the publication (as per Music News).Glynne has released her third studio album ‘Jess’ today (April 26).

The singer shared that she hopes the album is able to help people “understand the person” she is after years of feeling “misunderstood”.“I feel like I have been misunderstood and I think that’s something that I don’t want to continue in my career.

I want people to listen to my records and understand where they’ve come from, and understand the person that I am,” she told The Independent.Glynne also opened up about how she was “terrified” at one point after leaving her label Atlantic Records. “I was absolutely terrified,” she recalled. “I was like: ‘Oh my God, what have I done?’ Massive moments of doubt, massive moments of fear because I was all alone.