Jae Stephens: The crooner baddie’s Audacity album arrives September 25
Ready for some new tunes to go from summer sizzling to autumn antics? How about leaning on crooner Jae Stephens to show out with her newly announced Audacity album slated to drop September 25? Say less.
Jae Stephens’ Audacity album comes out September 25
It’s summer love vibes brewing super strong and carrying over to cuffing season. New anthems like ‘Sugar Trap’ and her ‘Attaboy!’ tune - too - my goodness. Peep the deets.
Bubbling pop singer / songwriter and producer, Jae Stephensannounces her highly anticipated debut studio album AUDACITY, a coming of power storybook enforcing the many dimensions of modern femininity disguised as your next favorite pop album set to release on September 25th via Def Jam Recordings / RAEDIO across all platforms.
Pre-order AUDACITY HERE.
AUDACITY's exploration of womanhood bridges the gap between the various forms of female duality from softness and strength, vulnerability and command, to intimacy and independence while weaving together Jae’s ideologies of feminine sovereignty. Produced by Dallas Caton and writing support from MNEK (Zara Larsson, Beyonce, Dua Lipa) the 11-track album (plus bonus track on vinyl only) unfolds within Jae’s fanatical immersive worldAuda City - a place she and Creative Director Cass Meyers (SZA, Megan Thee Stallion) created to allow women’s unapologetic convictions to transform feminine power into a destination all its own while being accented by Jae’s new age blend of pop and R&B. Each song on the new album becomes an expression of Jae’s bold limitless worldview starting with the kick-off single “Attaboy!” where she tames a self-proclaimed bad boy into the perfect plus one. She recently revved the engine of AUDACITY with her latest single “Sugar Trap”by using candy-coated hooks and cheeky innuendos to make a statement for women everywhere who know what they want and won’t minimize their standards.
“AUDACITY is me daring to take up as much space as I want in a world that has tried to box me in both personally and professionally” says Jae. “The songs on this album put my ambitious, aggressive, and even at times avoidant tendencies on display; rather than run from it, I’ll always have the audacity to tell it exactly how I see it, even if it can sometimes paint me as the villain in my own story.”
Notable media outlets such as Teen VOGUE, Nylon, VIBE, One’s To Watch among others have already championed the upcoming album via its latest singles and continue to support her dominance in the pop space. Jae’s acclaimed EPs SELLOUT, SELLOUT II and TOTAL SELLOUT THE DELUXE set the stage for Jae’s artistic growth leading her to land as an opener for FLO on the US leg of their "AAA Tour" which later opened the doors to Jae’s own SELLOUT tour in October 2025 - selling out its initial three show dates in LA, NYC, and London in 24 hours. She later extended the tour continuing on to sell out shows in Houston, Atlanta, DC, Toronto, Santa Ana and Boston. Across all three SELLOUT projects, Jae’s music has been praised by the likes of Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, ELLE, NOTION,Wonderland Magazine, Clash Magazine, Rated R&B, and SPIN - who dubbed SELLOUT IIone of the Best EPs of 2025. She’s received a handful of additional praises such as gracing the November cover of NME Magazine, Rolling Stone noting her as one of the voices in The Pop-Girl Guide To Dating, GQ highlighting her as a standout act in 2025’s Pop Counternarratives, Reddit awarding her the Popheads 2025 Best New Artist Award, as well as being acknowledged as a 2025 artist to watch by Consequence of Sound and Rap-Up.
Jae is set to grace the stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 1st and then on tour with Grammy-nominated pop / R&B singer, Khalid on the European leg of his “It’s Always Summer Somewhere” this October. She recently graced the stage at the WeHo Pride Festival in Los Angeles making her debut on the festival circuit. With a bevy of new music on the horizon, Jae is building a world entirely on her own terms with no signs of slowing down while taking fans along for a wild ride.
ABOUT JAE STEPHENS:
Jae Stephens is a Dallas-born, Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and rising pop force blending sharp songwriting, playful confidence, and genre-bending production into a sound entirely her own. After first gaining attention online as a teenager for her standout vocal covers and magnetic personality, Jae broke through with her 2017 single “24K,” earning praise from The FADER and a performance on COLORS. Since then, she has collaborated with artists including THEY., VanJess, Khamari, and Xavier Omar while amassing more than 50 million streams across her catalog. Her acclaimed SELLOUT series - including viral standouts “Afterbody” and “Body Favors” - propelled her into a breakout new chapter, earning recognition from Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, ELLE, SPIN, and more. Following sold-out headline shows and a run opening for FLO’s AAA Tour, Jae now steps into her boldest era yet with “Attaboy!” and her debut album Audacity. She also is host of her very own podcast titled The SELLOUT Podcast with Jae Stephens where she has enticing conversations with various unique artists and friends that stand out as creative artists. She has spoken with guests such as of MNEK, Alemeda, Jenson McRae - just to name a few.
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