Jesus Loves A Primadonna

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Jesus Loves a Primadonna is an eight-track EP by New Jersey-born singer-songwriter Nessa Barrett, released on March 20, 2026 via Warner Records. It follows her second album Afterca re (2024) and its deluxe edition (February 2025), and was co-written by Barrett alongside producers CJ Baran and Arthur Besna — the same collaborative team behind Aftercare — with lead singles "High on Heaven" and "Stay With Me" previewing the project ahead of its release. Barrett has described the EP thematically as "the villain origin story of every woman who has loved until she cannot love anymore," framing it as a document of love's beauty, its collapse, and the self-preservation that follows. A brief run of sold-out "live unveiling" shows in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Toronto accompanied the release, and a CD edition followed on April 24.Across its 27 minutes, the EP deepens the dark-pop aesthetic Barrett has been developing since hell is a teenage girl (2022), layering noir-leaning rock elements and subtle trip-hop textures beneath her characteristically soft, breathy, and emotionally loaded vocal delivery. The opener "West Coast Prayers" establishes an immediately cinematic tone, while "Stay With Me," "High on Heaven," and "Venom" have been identified by reviewers as the project's strongest moments — each capturing, as In Music Blog put it, "the emotional immediacy that has defined Barrett's best work." Other highlights include "Moulin Rouge" and "Buffalo 66," the latter a title likely drawn from the 1998 Vincent Gallo film that shares the EP's themes of obsessive love and emotional extremity. When the Horn Blows praised the EP as a marker of genuine artistic maturity, calling it "both a personal confession and a universal exploration of love's transformative power" and crediting Barrett with sharpening her narrative voice into something "both intimate and cinematic." Show more