To get the measure of a pop star, check their social media. On the day of JoJo’s Koko show, which had sold out before many acolytes even knew she was playing, she responded individually via Twitter to several disappointed fans, offering to put their names on the guest list. Like the remodelling of fellow former child star Miley Cyrus, JoJo’s new incarnation bespeaks not a musical transformation but a grabbing of the reins. It’s the Mad Love material that resounds, and not merely because it includes carnality as a byproduct of maturity. On the clubbier tracks, shunted along by her guitar-dominated live band, she’s voracious, consumed by her appetites.

Source: The Guardian January 18, 2017 12:24 UTC