Jessie J, "who You Are"

Jessie J, “Who You Are”

Jessie J’s album was released on February, 2011 under the name of “Who You Are”. This was the debut album of the British singer and song writer Jessie Cornish who has become a positive role model for teenagers? It took her six years to complete the album, but as a young writer, she had collaborated with other artist and done other previous woks, such as the well knows “Party in USA.” Why in this album she believes is it important to send a positive message to the teenagers? As a young adult she believes there are many young with negative self esteem about themselves. That is why in some of the lyrics of this first record, she exposed past experiences and she has a positive message towards young people especially for those out there who has been bullied, she encourages within them the importance of self love and standing up for oneself no matter what other people think or wants to you to be.

In the song “Who’s Laughing Now”, she talks about kids been bullied and ridicule in school. How this is happening today in mostly all our schools, and we should do something to stop it. We must give importance and support the fight against bullies. It is sad how children are growing up with low self esteem because they see themselves different from others. In the lyrics, she clearly states how she was bullied in the past by others.

“Mummy they called me names

They wouldn’t let me play

I'd run home sit and cry almost everyday” (Jessie J)

She experienced in her previous years how kids are treated, but it is amazed how she turns these bad experiences into something that could benefit her, and she gives hope, that there is always a way to success in life, no matter all the suffering you could have in previous years. It will make you grow up and believe that at the end of the road all those who maltreat you would be miserable or not successful as one can become. It is a way to tell other people who doubt about your talents or planes in the future that always if you believe it, it is going to be possible. “So who’s laughing now,” is a clear meaning that one can be proud of the achievement in life and people who laugh at you today are not successful as you may become.

In other lyrics included in that album, she encourages their listeners to love themselves no matter who they are.

“I stare at my reflection in the mirror

Why am I doing this to myself?

Losing my mind on a tiny error

I nearly left the real me on the shelf” (Jessie J).

She described how important is not to condemn yourself for what you are and who have you become. The world is different