Music Overview: Jesse McCartney’s ‘All’s Nicely’ celebrates grownup life after teen pop star fame

Former teen heartthrob Jesse McCartney — finest recognized for his boy band days in Dream Road, his solo hit “Stunning Soul,” writing “Bleeding Love” for Leona Lewis and an performing profession on “Summerland” — is growing older like a wonderful wine on “All’s Nicely,” his late…

Former teen heartthrob Jesse McCartney — finest recognized for his boy band days in Dream Road, his solo hit “Stunning Soul,” writing “Bleeding Love” for Leona Lewis and an performing profession on “Summerland” — is growing older like a wonderful wine on “All’s Nicely,” his newest EP.

And he is speaking that in one of the best ways he is aware of how: by means of music.

It has been a number of years since McCartney final launched new music. His 2021 album “New Stage” was all grownup modern shiny pop. Within the years that adopted, he took time to get pleasure from his newlywed life with spouse Katie Peterson.

For his newest return, McCartney hits the bottom operating with racy lyrics and acquainted early ’00s pop sounds.

Such is true on the opening monitor “Fake Fur,” a cool, R&B track tackling related themes to Jennifer Lopez ‘s 2001 hit “Love Don’t Price a Factor,” detailing how the very best issues can’t be purchased.

“However some issues can’t purchase/Your coronary heart your time/Your hand in mine,” he sings in his attribute falsetto. “No worth too excessive/Your world is mine/I’ll spend my life.”

Raspy rapper Yung Gravy options on the second monitor, “Make a Child,” a cheeky R&B-pop track all about breeding.

“I need all of it/It’s tasty/I eat it up like pastry/Within the mall/She makes me/They hate us up in Macy’s,” McCartney sings on the naughty refrain atop a seductive and enjoyable pop melody.

But it surely’s not all sunshine and horny rendezvous on “All’s Nicely.” Acoustic ballad “The Nicely” is an introspective rumination on emotional repression: “I go away the home and drive round/To cover what’s in my head,” McCartney opens the track. “’Trigger I’ll by no means allow you to see/The troubles that I’ve fled.”

It results in the nearer “Silver Spoon,” a takedown of the ultra-privileged. Doing his finest ’00s Justin Timberlake, McCartney sings “She was born on prime of the moon/Lookin’ out on the nicest view/Waking up with nothing else to do/However sharpening up her silver spoon.”

“All’s Nicely” is a brief however candy EP that celebrates life, love and lust.

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