Jade Bird opens old wounds and new doors on Who Wants To Talk About Love?, fighting through everything with the hope of understanding it all.
Love is a battlefield, a mystery, a punchline… and Jade Bird is finally ready to talk about it. On Who Wants To Talk About Love?, her most soul-searching album yet, the British singer-songwriter turns heartbreak and inherited trauma into shining folk-pop anthems and tear-streaked ballads that feel like journal entries written in neon.
Executive produced by hitmaker Andrew Wells (Phoebe Bridgers, Teddy Swims), with contributions from Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief) and Greg Kurstin (Adele), Bird’s third album is a reckoning that’s been years in the making. The title track, a song she began writing at 16, sets the tone as both a confession and a challenge, asking whether anyone really wants to unpack the messy, intergenerational legacy of love and all the ways it can wreck us.
“I wrote this album while trying to make sense of the broken relationships in my family,” she says, pointing to a lineage of pain stretching from her parents’ turbulent split to her own engagement’s implosion. Growing up in a home with three generations of divorced women, Bird absorbed the chaos of romantic fallout early. “They sheltered me, but I could tell my mum was hurting big time.”
Who Wants To Talk About Love? is steeped in that pain, and in the clarity that comes from surviving it. On “Dreams”, Bird sings through a breakdown wrapped in sunshine, her voice trembling with exhaustion as she records one of her most vulnerable vocals to date. “Stick Around” and “Wish You Well” cut even deeper, dissecting the toxic patterns we inherit and the fathers who never quite show up. But it’s not all heartache. There’s hope here too. “Save Your Tears” is a glimmering love song, co-written with her current partner during the album’s creation. And the closer “How To Be Happy,” inspired by trashy reality TV and existential fear, dares to ask the most radical question - Can we actually break the cycle? “I know absolutely nothing,” she jokes. But don’t believe her. Who Wants To Talk About Love? knows everything about being broken, building back, and still believing love is worth the conversation.