After more than a decade spent building a life beyond music, Justine Thomas introduces Not Something Adults Should Say – a deeply personal pop album that challenges the idea that growing up means leaving your dreams behind.
Blending emotional honesty and playful wit, Justine draws from the melodic legacy of late 90’s and early 2000’s artists like Mandy Moore, Savage Garden, and Kelly Clarkson to create a sound that feels both nostalgic and sharply current.
The album is both a time capsule and a reclamation project – featuring songs written across more than a decade alongside new material shaped by the life she lived in between. Anchored by its title track, Not Something Adults Should Say explores the quiet, often unspoken insecurities of adulthood.
Visually and thematically, the album draws on the polished ideal of the 1950’s housewife – the picture-perfect image of a woman who appears to have it all together. Beneath that surface, Justine reveals a more complex reality: the emotional weight carried behind closed doors. The aesthetic becomes a lens, not a costume – highlighting the tension between expectation and truth.
With Not Something Adults Should Say, Justine Thomas captures the moment many people quietly face: opening the box of who they used to be, and realizing those dreams were never meant to stay packed away. Her music is a reminder that ambition doesn’t disappear with time.
Instead, it evolves, waits, and, eventually, finds its way back.