Who Wants to Talk About Love?

When UK-born singer-songwriter Jade Bird was making her 2024 EP *Burn the Hard Drive*, she didn’t realize she was writing about a breakup that hadn’t happened yet—the one that would involve her fiancé-slash-touring guitarist. *Who Wants to Talk About Love?*, Bird\'s third album, is a more conscious processing of that loss. But rather than focus its songs tightly on just that relationship, Bird widens her lens of self-reflection, reckoning with the failed marriages around her (specifically her parents’ and both sets of grandparents’) to better understand where she might’ve gone wrong. This personal introspection underscores Bird’s gifts for raw, nakedly honest storytelling. She poses the album’s title as a rhetorical question in “Who Wants,” a look at her family’s poor communication habits in the face of love breaking down. And on “Dreams,” which she wrote the morning after a particularly rough night with her now ex, Bird questions her will to leave a partnership that isn’t working. But in “Glad You Did,” she finds that, in hindsight, it was all for the best. “You let me slip right out your grip,” she sings. “You lost me, gone bit by bit, but I’m so glad you did.”