With a private school upbringing on Manhattan’s conservative Upper East Side, Jackson Harris is the exception to the Gossip Girl rule. Ignoring pressures to follow the pack-go to college, get a degree, get a job and settle down, instead, Jackson has chosen to take the road less traveled. To make a ‘Long Story Short’, Jackson’s honest and melodic approach to life represents a pop star unwilling to give in to a sugarcoating of his world and words.