Jenna Rose

In August 2009, it was reported that Swerdlow and nineteen other musicians were selected for individual coaching and recording sessions by long-time Billy Joel sax player Richie Cannata,[8] and Jenna wrote on her Facebook page that Richie's son Eren Cannata wrote and produced three singles for her, Sweet Melody, The Remedy, and Spotlight.[9] Since then, Swerdlow has collaborated with different songwriters, producers and choreographers, to record songs and music videos.

At age twelve, while she was in 7th grade at West Hollow Middle School, Swerdlow released her first music video, My Jeans, featuring a rap by Baby Triggy aka I Am Trigg,[10] on YouTube in October 2010;[6] locations included the Deer Park Tanger Outlet.[11] The video went viral, garnering over a million views and bring Swerdlow media attention.[12] My Jeans was panned by YouTube viewers,[13] earning her, as of September 8, 2011, 26,355 "likes" and 295,189 "dislikes" for the video.[6] Detractors found fault not only with Swerdlow's song, but with her clothes, the shape of her mouth, and the video's production values.[5] The video continues to be popular,[5] with the original video reaching over 14 million views as of early September 2011, even though it has "spawned parodies, video responses, rap replies and more than a dozen pages of written critiques."[5]

Despite negative reviews of My Jeans, Swerdlow followed up with O.M.G in March 2011,[14] and Don't Give Up, dealing with "haters",[15] in April 2011.[15] Swerdlow and her parents describe the song O.M.G. as dealing with cybercritics and cyberbullying.[6] Though covered by media, these subsequent songs received less interest than her original viral video; both display similar negative ratings, and have been panned by critics.[15] O.M.G. received "more than a million views" as of May 2011.[16] The lyrics were described as "disturbing" for a 12-year-old singer.[16] On PerezHilton.com the video was described as "hyper-sexualized, uber-creepy and if you really want to talk about jacking swag, not one dance move wasn't pulled from another video circa 1998."[17] In October 2012, Swerdlow debuted her version of "Walk On By", toured with two other groups and performed at Nassau Coliseum.[18]

She is also well known for her work as a drum major in her high school band, which consequently awarded her the title of "Most Musical" as a high school superlative. She recently graduated from college with a degree in music and will continue her passion in the classroom with her students upon her upcoming move to Dallas.