Joe Jonas isn’t looking to do revenge.
In fact, while his newest album Music for People Who Believe in Love is set to be his most personal yet, Joe says it was never intended to take aim at his now-estranged wife Sophie Turner, with whom he had a very public breakup in September.
“It was scary at times, and also freeing,” he told Billboard in an interview published Aug. 27 of working on the album. “I’m not trying to come for anyone on this album. I’m not trying to put stuff on blast.”
As the 35-year-old—who shares daughters Willa, 3, and Delphine, 2, with Sophie—put it, “I have a beautiful life that I’m grateful for. I’ve got two beautiful kids. I’m a happy person, and the music needed to resemble that—but also, the journey to get here.”
This is not to say, however, that the breakup didn’t influence the album.
“I was going through a lot of life changes,” he added, “finding out who I was as a person and father and friend, and living under the microscope of what the music industry can be. And I think, at such a crazy time in my life, I looked to music as an outlet.”
