Perrie first lit the stage in the eighth season of The X Factor UK, where, with Little Mix, she carved history by becoming the first group to seize the crown. Together they painted the charts with six albums, nineteen songs that climbed into the nation’s heart, five soaring all the way to number one, until silence fell in 2022, a pause, a breath. Then in 2024, her voice returned with a solo dawn, ‘Forget About Us’ leading the way. Now she stands alone yet radiant, offering the world her first self-titled album, a new chapter written in her own name.
Opening her self-titled debut album, ‘Forget About Us’, a pop ballad brushed with country hues, reshaped through her own lens of love and memory. Co-written with Ed Sheeran and guided by the touch of David Hodges, once of Evanescence, the song bared its soul and climbed to No. 10 on the U.K. Singles Chart. From its opening chords, the track set the tone for Perrie, an album where strength and fragility intertwine. Wrapped in sleek synths, warm acoustics, and steady rhythms, the music never strays from its core, the voice of Perrie Edwards, fierce yet tender, lifting each chorus skyward and softening into verses that whisper truth.
‘If He Wanted To He Would’ follows with a country-pop warmth, a song about being the one everyone turns to for advice, penned by Perrie Edwards alongside Nina Nesbitt, Charlie Martin, and Joe Housley. From soaring pop-rock ballads made for arenas to choppy, ’80s-tinged stunners like ‘Sand Dancer’ and ‘Cute Aggression’, the record moves effortlessly between grandeur and intimacy.
Stripped-down acoustic gems, ‘Rocket Scientist’, ‘Same Place Different View’, reveal raw, unguarded emotion, while the tempo slows for smouldering vocal workouts in ‘Baby Steps’ and ‘Bonnie and Clyde’, melting tender strums with tales of love and loss. Upbeat tracks like ‘Pushing Up Daisies’, ‘Miss You’, ‘Punchline’, ‘Put You First’, ‘Absofuckinglutely’, and ‘Where You Are’ radiate confidence without ever losing sincerity, leading into the poignant closer, ‘Goodbye My Friend’.
Shades of Taylor Swift’s confessional lyricism, a touch of Lady Gaga’s theatrical flair, whispers of Joni Mitchell’s introspective vulnerability, and echoes of Kacey Musgraves’ tender storytelling drift through the album, yet at every turn, the sound is unmistakably Perrie, fearless, emotive, and wholly her own.
Though she once spoke of searching for her musical compass, this debut arrives with striking certainty, carrying an identity as sure as it is luminous. Where many first steps can stumble like experiments, hers stands tall, fully realised from the first note. The lyrics trace love, resilience, and self-discovery, stories at once intimate and vast, echoing both her personal scars and the shared heartbeat of her listeners. There is a seasoned grace in these songs, born of fame’s highs and lows, and a clarity that belongs only to an artist who has found her voice. This versatile collection balances pop’s grandeur with raw vulnerability, marrying radio-ready shimmer with unwavering integrity, and reminding us why Perrie shines as one of her generation’s defining vocalists.
Perrie unfolds as an eclectic tapestry, weaving echoes of her rock’n’roll childhood with the pulse of Motown, the shimmer of disco, the ache of country, the glow of the ’80s, and the fearless shine of pop. At its heart runs a single thread, her voice, powerful and unyielding, rising to meet every melody, daring each note to soar higher. Across sixteen tracks, the record plays like a cinematic memoir, a widescreen portrait painted in sound – one story, one message, that only Perrie herself could tell.
Perrie’s album brims with songs made for sunlit drives and windows-down sing-alongs, while its ballads bloom with vocals so breathtaking and lyrics so tender they feel like whispered secrets. It is lush, cohesive, and alive with the spirit of an artist who stands among the finest voices of our time. Amid a world awash in dance-pop beats and hyperpop shimmer, this album emerges like a cool breeze, grounded in acoustic pop and tinged with gentle country hues, each note carried on the strum of a guitar. It doesn’t reverberate through crowded clubs; instead, it unfolds like a sunlit clearing in the woods, open, boundless, and alive, where her voice stretches wide, timeless and profoundly human.
