For people who share a name, JoJo and JoJo Siwa have little in common: One is a 29-year-old singer-songwriter who overcame a label dispute to make smooth-as-hell R&B, one is a 17-year-old former Dance Daughter turned YouTube star who wears big bows and dabbles in singing. But Variety brought the two together for a masked, distanced meeting of the minds that yielded one particularly surprising detail: Somehow, people sometimes confuse the two at live shows. “I became super-aware when people would show up to my concerts wearing a bow and be in for a very wild surprise when they realized that they got me and not the colorful, sweet JoJo Siwa,†JoJo The First said, confirming that this is indeed A Thing That Happens. In fact, Siwa first got in touch with JoJo because of a similar situation: “I remember somebody tweeted something like, “I bought my wife tickets for a JoJo concert, only to find out it’s a JoJo Siwa concert. And we have to go and there’s going to be 9-year-old screaming little girls, but whatever, we’re going to make the most of it,’†she told the elder JoJo. “You liked that tweet, and it was the first time we interacted.â€
So don’t get this one twisted: JoJo, the R&B singer-songwriter, also just announced the deluxe edition of her latest album good to know, featuring remixes with Demi Lovato and Tinashe along with five new tracks. And one of those, “What U Need,†is out today, August 7. Just remember — compared to Siwa, JoJo is “nice but a little wild.â€