Jade Thirlwall didn’t just make her solo debut at the BRIT Awards earlier this year: The former member of the X Factor -formed girlband Little Mix made a statement. Showcasing “Angel of My Dreams” — her fever-dream launch single that interpolated Sandie Shaw’s Eurovision winner “Puppet On A String” and took aim at her first go-round in the music biz — Thirlwall, under the mononym Jade, put on a four-minute, five-act spectacular that established her as a next-generation pop maximalist.

That’s Showbiz Baby! , Jade’s first album on her own, isn’t as wall-to-wall delirious as its inaugural single — but it is a fun, frothy pop album where the onetime Simon Cowell mentee thrills in the dancefloor’s unpredictable abandon and her own power. She balances her vocal range, which can shape-shif

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