The good news about Joe Jonas’s solo career, away from that little project with his brothers (about whom you may have heard a bit), is that now the world has another Robin Thicke to contend with, although Brother Joe doesn’t sing about eating your panties off. Yet. Of course, with a Jonas production, there comes the inherent crush of female attention — nay, pandemonium — no matter what the product sounds like. With 2.6 million Twitter followers, it’s far-fetched to think that even a tepid solo outing won’t push more than a few units. So far Jonas’s new album, October’s upcoming LP Fastlife, has been telegraphed with two singles, “See No More” and “Just in Love,” both swoon-ready for the masses. The 22-year-old Jonas is smartly growing with his audience, who are just now finally getting around to kissing actual boys at parties where there are, like, no adults and stuff.
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2011.