The Platinum Pleasure Edition makes the latter case. “Now I hear it, and I think, Was that really stupid that I didn’t put that on there, or is that just some kind of accidental genius that I did delay it?” When she first wrote it, she thought a dance diva like Kylie Minogue could’ve sung it. The world was ready for a song like “Please,” the deluxe’s vibrant, sweaty lead single, a year ago, but it didn’t yet align with where she was at: “Maybe I’m stupid, because people seem to really love it, personally, I wasn’t ready for that song yet,” she says. And so, she released a deluxe, What’s Your Pleasure? The Platinum Pleasure Edition, on June 11, adding eight more songs from the era that she finally feels comfortable sharing alongside the rest. Now, a year after What’s Your Pleasure?’s June 2020 release, that inner attitude has doubled. “It was this thing that made me feel confident and empowered and like I really deserved to be here and doing this job - ‘cause for a while, I hadn’t felt like that,” she says of the album. Despite her familiarity with this world, Ware insists it’s the kind of music she wouldn’t have been able to make for just herself until now.

It was the best full-length set of new disco music in a year full of it, born from a pivot only a consummate pop star could execute. Last year, for her fourth album, she stepped back onto the dance floor, delivering a ballroom’s bounty of songs. The English pop singer-songwriter got her start singing on dance tracks, like the SBTRKT collaboration “Nervous,” before becoming known for powerful, evocative R&B. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo by Andy Sheppard/Redferns via Getty Imagesįrom the outside, Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure? looked like a return to her bearings.

“Everyone knows me as kind of melancholy, a bit miserable, soul songs, so What’s Your Pleasure? was slightly off-piece for me, but it feels so good.”

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