JoJo dolls it up in a cute LBD as she arrives at APL.De.Ap‘s Birthday Celebration and Launch of Charity Dreams held at The Conga Room at L.A. Live on Tuesday night (December 13) in Los Angeles.

The 20-year-old musician (wearing an Adolfo Sanchez dress with Stuart Weitzman heels) recently caught up with Wetpaint at the Los Angeles Tree Lighting ceremony where she dished on her new album, Jumping Tains.

“I was going through a lot personally, going through a lot with my career, feeling like I didn’t have control of it and like I was in limbo. I was really frustrated. So my music became aggressive. It became angsty. It became hard,” she shared.

JoJo continued, “I became that east coast chick, rough around the edges that I am. And I became bold, and I wasn’t afraid. I really wanted to be on another level vocally than people have heard me before. I just wanted to be my personal best, and every album, I’ll continue to grow, but this is a representation of the good, the bad, and the ugly of being a young woman finding herself. Moving from Massachusetts to L.A., it’s a weird experience, but I wrote my way through it.”

JoJo is also pictured at Q102′s Jingle Ball 2011 in Philadelphia, Penn. 10+ pics inside…