MUSIC
From Issue #19
Jesse McCartney Interview
Beautiful Boy, Lovely Soul
by Lauren Bailey
“I’m very, very thrilled and excited about the
people I’m working with and will work with
in the future,” Jesse McCartney says of his
very successful debut album, Beautiful Soul.
“My first recording experience was in this
boy band (Dream Street). It was all pop
music. It was sugar-coated, bubble gummy
pop, and I would never even have thought to
submit a song or write a song. It was always
handed to me or spoon-fed. And now, since
this solo project came along about two
years ago – it took two years to do this whole thing – I’ve had so many opportunities
to say, ‘No, we’re not doing that, we’re gonna
do this, or yeah, that’s a great idea.’”
Jesse started acting and singing at the age
of 7, and the Irvington, New York native
began his career in musical theatre. His first
big role was Oliver, and when the production
was over, Jesse knew he had only just begun.
Eventually, he landed the part of Adam
Chandler, Jr. on the daytime soap All My
Children, and at the same time, he was
hired to join the platinum-selling boy band
Dream Street.
But for Jesse, who co-wrote some of the
songs on the album, the collaboration is the
best part, “getting to hear other people’s
ideas as well as my own, so I know that I’m
getting a piece of myself onto the album.”
Photo courtesy of Universal Music.
