After coming in as runner-up on American Idol season 13, Jena Irene Asciutto struggled to find her footing in the music industry. She found out during the American Idols Live! Tour that she was not going to be signed to the show’s partner label, 19 Recordings. So she was set adrift to try to figure out her own path to success. Now, after two years of hard work and soul-searching, Jena Irene is ready to move forward at last.
“I had to kind of go back to the drawing board to figure out what kind of artist I wanted to be, what kind of message I wanted to send out,” 19-year-old Ascuitto told The Oakland Press. “I basically just spent the past year and a half, two years focusing on my songwriting and really trying to figure things out.
“I had to kind of go back to the drawing board to figure out what kind of artist I wanted to be, what kind of message I wanted to send out,” 19-year-old Ascuitto told The Oakland Press. “I basically just spent the past year and a half, two years focusing on my songwriting and really trying to figure things out.
According to Jena, her time on American Idol was “great” of course, but it “didn’t really teach me a lot about artist development and songwriting.” She had so much advice and so many opinions being thrown at her left and right, that she “basically just lost myself.”
After putting herself back together over the past couple of years, Jena Irene is now stepping out into the spotlight again with her new EP, Innocence. The five track EP, released on April 22nd on Original 1265 Recordings, is now available on iTunes. A full length album, titled Cold Fame, will be following soon. Keep up with the latest news and tour dates for Jena Irene at her website.
I’d like to know the reason she wasn’t invited to the American idol finale? Perhaps as P. Phillip and Kelly Clarkson some dispute occurred 10-15-14 when she went to LA 19/interscope only to be rejected?
I read that it was her decision because she was trying to distance herself from Idol and build her career without that aspect. Sounds crazy to me to pass up that opportunity, so who knows.
No, AI didn’t invite her. Maybe iAI was mad because she traded in the Ford Mustang she won for a Jeep for the cold snowy winter weather in Michigan Note: Prince stayed home also and stated the cold kept the bad people away. Just seeing the comparisons: Prince if told to move forward-went backwards. Her Dad didn’t want her to get tattoos, and not to use the Jlo/Adele./Levine type words as in video above. Prince severed ties with Warner to do his own thing and suffered. Jena ‘s doing her own thing with an Indie that even T. Swift and other Major Label owned artists can only dream of doing.