Ashley Cooke will always remember working with Joe Jonas.
The “Your Place” singer, 27, not too long ago launched new single “All I Forgot” that includes Jonas, 35, and he or she tells PEOPLE that the collaboration was a dream come true.
“It was spontaneous! However I’ve at all times mentioned I’d like to do a tune with Joe Jonas,” she says, noting that her workforce rapidly known as Jonas’ workforce after Cooke initially minimize the one.
“It was very a lot ‘have your individuals discuss to my individuals!'” she provides with fun. “But it surely additionally grew to become a friendship.”
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The tune, which Charlie Puth helped co-produce, leans extra pop than nation, which Cooke liked for a “one-off function” earlier than her subsequent album. Jonas felt just like the “proper” selection, she says.
“Clearly, I add the nation component to it, but it surely has the pop earworm factor that makes it actually enjoyable to take heed to,” she says.
The duo even carried out an acoustic model of the tune for CMT’s Studio Classes.
In line with Cooke, Puth even joined the one earlier than Jonas did after a longtime collaborator of Puth’s, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, co-wrote the observe.
“JKash was within the studio working with Charlie Puth on the time, and he performed the tune for Charlie,” says Cooke. “Charlie hears it and goes, ‘I really like this, can I add my little aptitude to it?'”
The remaining is historical past, she says, and “All I Forgot” is now Cooke’s first launch since her debut, 24-song album Shot within the Darkish in 2023.
“That is my first album, so it was a brand new course of for me. We wrote most likely, gosh, 50, 60, 70 songs. We whittled down, after which we whittled it down somewhat extra, and we received to 24 and I sat with the 24 songs,” Cooke beforehand informed PEOPLE. “All of those songs really feel so actual and correct and cohesive they usually simply inform a narrative they usually make a lot sense for my life.”
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The nation star additionally simply wrapped her headlining Your Place Tour, and he or she’s at present nominated for finest new nation artist on the 2025 iHeart Radio Music Awards airing Monday, March 17 on Fox.
“All I Forgot” is obtainable all over the place now.