Jorja Smith Dares The World To 'Try Me' On New Single

Walsall-born songstress Jorja Smith signals a new beginning in her career as she draws her brief two-year hiatus to a close to return with the beautifully defiant ‘Try Me’

Intense, urgent and cinematic, intricately arranged the production of the track artistically expresses Jorja’s thoughts and feelings as they transition into the seamless. The beat is perfectly paired with lyricism and tone.

Freeing herself from the impossibility of pleasing everyone she has found new comfort in her own skin. Jorja says, “Putting yourself out there, in front of a world that has many opinions as it only ever used to be me really being my own critic.”

Working with DAMEDAME to produce an energetic track that includes Sombre piano chords and thrilling 808 drums that excite you before the gradual introduction of jazz elements and synths rise to the forefront of the soundscape in the act of pure musical expression,

Occupying a space at this point in her career, Jorja acknowledges that she has grown and changed since her debut album Lost and Found and has drawn strength from her experiences.

“I like this world that I've just come into. And I’m still figuring things out. Always figuring things out.” Jorja says. “This is the first time I’m putting stuff out there that I can connect with right now.”

The accompanying metaphoric video directed by Amber Grace Johnson is shot around the suburbs of Marseille and the amphitheatre in Arles.

Telling its own story of Jorja vs the world the video matches the lyrics in an active conflict that resembles a dangerous dance.

Speaking about the idea of the video Jorja says, “The dancer, Andrea Bou Othmane, embodies a bull which represents the world and its opinions out of my control.”

One of the most exciting voices and songwriters to come out of the UK in recent years, we cannot wait to see the evidence of her growing into herself and how it shapes her new music from now on via her own independent record label FAMM.

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