- 2025-07-25
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MUSIC
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Jorja Smith Premieres New Song “With You” on BBC Radio 1
British singer-songwriter Jorja Smith premiered a new song “With You” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
She co-wrote the song with Ed Thomas and Michael Stafford, as with the previous song “The Way I Love You”, which was released back in May.
Produced by Ed Thomas, Maverick Sabre, and Jakwob. The accompanying music video was directed by Ivor Lawson-Adamah.
She first performed the song at Glastonbury Festival 2025, followed by performances during her headline tour in Germany this month.
Jorja Smith told Jack Saunders about the song, “This song is about someone really special to me. But I realized recently, as I've been singing it out to like at my shows, like my fans and everything, that it actually has another meaning. And it's actually for my fans and everything. So that's my new thing that I wanted to say at one of my shows. But I always get just so nervous to speak. But the new thing about the song is that now it's actually a song for my hands.”- She continued, “I was in, where was I left? I was in Hamburg. No, actually, it was Munich. I just played in Hamburg, and we had to show in Munich, and I was just singing this song. And, like the lyrics, 'I've been hurt so bad / you're meant to be in my life / let you see my whole truth and my smile / And I'm so lucky I get to call you mine.' I just think like, I give everything, and I'm so vulnerable in my songs and everything, and just my fans are always there for me. And just as I was singing it and looking at everyone, it kind of made me emotional. And then I wanted to tell everyone, but I'm just like, I said I'm really bad at chatting, so I didn't. So I'm saying it now.”
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She added, “I was chatting to my back vocalist of my band about it, and they were like, 'Wow.' They were just thinking of the lyrics and like, 'I get it.' But I just love that about music, songs, lyrics, just how it has one meaning for me. And then it can have a completely different meaning for someone else. And then for me, then it will have a different meaning. They're just endless. Well, they have words of their own.” - source : BBC Radio 1
