Coco Jones has released her debut album Why Not More?, and the R&B singer shares how sampling Britney Spears’ “Toxic” for “Taste” came to life, her experience working with an “in love” Future, how she’s defining R&B in her own way, and more!
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Coco Jones:
I didn’t have a plan of, you know, using anything, especially such an iconic Britney sample. So don’t play me, because I would play you back. I think it was iconic that I got a song with Future where he’s actually in love. Learning about myself as an adult while putting out music and learning about myself as an artist. A lot of learning going on in the room. I love to co-write with women. I feel like we just have a similar language, and they get me in a way that sometimes I feel like it’s different for a guy. Sometimes they write a little bit more thoughts-based, and women are more sometimes feelings-based, like literal, like the senses and things like that. Women, I think, commonly write with me, and men commonly make the music. Writing “You” was very easy, I feel, because I write from real-life experiences. For me, I am at a place where I don’t have to keep my guard up in this side of my life, on the personal side. It’s refreshing to have a song that’s like good vibes. I don’t want to leave people with only music for the negative emotions. I want to also have some songs that I feel like are useful for the positive emotions. When you’re having a good day and you want to keep it raw. “Why Not More?” was definitely another song where I just wanted to expand what R&B is to me.
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