Jessica Winter is recalling the questions she posed herself as she was making her first album, drolly called My First Album. “Why do I love pop music? What is it that makes pop great? And what do I miss in pop music now?”
“I was trying to hone in on exactly what it is that I love about pop,” she says. “It’s all the weirdness in it. And how far you can go within three minutes. I love having something really upbeat and fun and then juxtaposing it with a dark message. This whole album is celebrating pop music in general.”
