Early last year, Joe Jonas was in Savannah, Georgia, filming the Korean War-set movie Devotion when he had a burst of another sort of creativity. “I felt so stimulated by what a lovely city I was in and some of the music I heard when I was there,” Jonas tells Rolling Stone. He commenced writing new material over Zoom with collaborators like Ryan Tedder, Jason Evigan, Mike Elizondo, and Mikky Ekko. Eventually he had written almost an album, one he felt in shape the raucous nature of DNCE.
Jonas formed DNCE — a funky dance-rock group — in 2015 with drummer Jack Lawless and guitarist JinJoo Lee while the Jonas Brothers have been quickly kaput. Both musicians had toured with the Brothers in the past. After being brought to bassist Cole Whittle by pop songwriter Justin Tranter (the pair had been in glam-pop band Semi-Precious Weapons together), the quartet created a collection of deliciously enjoyable pop jams like “Kissing Strangers,” and “Cake by the Ocean,” which became a huge hit.
Joe Jonas has many other projects too lined up. While talking to a Magzine, “My goal for the next few months is to get you up on your feet dancing and make you move,” he continued. “New music. New vibes. New flavors. New collaborations. All of this is on the way and will be here… soon!!! New era incoming
