The duo I never knew I needed.
Last week, , pop star Joe Jonas released a new solo album called Music For People Who Believe In Love, which features a song called “Sip Your Wine” with one of country music’s most talented acts in Sierra Ferrell.
Sierra and Joe previously teamed up for a beautiful duet of “You’re Still The One” in Dallas while Ferrell was opening for Post Malone, and Joe is one third of the boy band the Jonas Brothers. This is probably a good time to admit that, as a woman approaching 30, I will always and forever be a Jonas Brothers girl at heart. I also love and believe in classic country music, but before I fell in love with country, I was screaming my little heart out to “Burnin’ Up” and “Year 3,000,” and I will always love those songs.
This isn’t the first time Joe has worked in the country space, either, as he was featured on a song with Ashley Cooke called “All I Forgot” earlier this year. We all know it’s become extremely trendy these days for pop stars like the aforementioned Post Malone, Beyoncé, Chapel Roan and others to make country albums, or even just country-influenced singles, because that’s simply what’s popular right now.
So, you can imagine my excitement when I saw that Joe and Sierra were starting to work together… it kind of makes no sense, their music isn’t similar in any way, really, but last night, they once again delivered a great performance of Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” during Joe’s show at Bowery Ballroom in New York City. Of course, “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” was the theme song for the 1998 science fiction disaster film Armageddon, which Steven Tyler’s daughter, Liv, starred in.
The power ballad was co-written by Diane Warren, who originally envisioned it would be performed by Celine Dion, and Aerosmith lead guitarist Joe Perry. It was released first in Japan in July of 1998, and was only supposed to be a radio single from Armageddon: The Album. It became so popular, though, that Columbia Records issued the song commercially in August of 1998. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Aerosmith their first and only number-one single in the US, where it stayed at the top for four weeks.
I have to admit, I fell in love with this song as a teenager and kind of forgot it existed, so I’m here for the song choice and love it as a duet. They sound great (Sierra Ferrell can sing anything).
Check it out here:
@daydreamingnic Joe and Sierra sound HEAVENLY together! This cover was perfect! #joejonas #sierraferrell #idontwanttomissathing #cover #newyork @joejonas @Sierra Ferrell ♬ original sound – nicola 🍒
Their backstage warm up is almost better, I think, because it’s so clear and there’s no background noice:
@cupofjoe backstage at Joe & Friends 🥹 @Sierra Ferrell @Frankie jonas ♬ original sound – Cup of Joe
I don’t know if they have more their working on since they’ve started popping up together so much, but as you can probably guess I’d love to hear Joe on a country song if Sierra has anything she’s working on right now… we’ll see, though. I really can’t imagine what that would sound like.
The production and sound of the aforementioned “Sip Your Wine” is certainly a far cry from what we’re typically used to hearing from Sierra, and while it’s an unexpected pairing, she can quite literally sing anything and make it sound incredible so this is obviously no different. I actually enjoy hearing her on something so different like this, and like I said, I’m an unashamed Jonas Brothers fan so I was really excited to see they were working together.
Obviously, it’s not a country song at all and Sierra is simply featured on it, but she’s such a talented, versatile artist and it’s cool to see her getting her flowers from huge artists outside of country music, too.
“Sip Your Wine”
“I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”
