{"id":35224,"date":"2023-08-31T13:01:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T13:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/31\/i-feel-more-me-jorja-smith-feels-as-if-she-is-giving-more-away-with-her-music-as-she-gets-older\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T13:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T13:01:47","slug":"i-feel-more-me-jorja-smith-feels-as-if-she-is-giving-more-away-with-her-music-as-she-gets-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/31\/i-feel-more-me-jorja-smith-feels-as-if-she-is-giving-more-away-with-her-music-as-she-gets-older\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I feel more me!&#8217; Jorja Smith feels as if she is &#8216;giving more away&#8217; with her music as she gets older"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-08-31\" datetime=\"1693486907\" pubdate=\"\">31 August 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Jorja Smith feels as if she is &#8220;giving away more&#8221; of herself as she matures.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Jorja Smith feels as if she is \u2018giving away more\u2019 of herself as she matures<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old singer\/songwriter \u2013\u00a0who released her debut single &#8216;Blue Lights&#8217; when she was still a teenager \u2013 explained in the run-up to her new studio album &#8216;Falling or Flying&#8217; that she has tried to include &#8220;so many different pockets&#8221; in her latest work and feels &#8220;more&#8221; like herself in doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/zane-lowe\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,zane-lowe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zane Lowe<\/a> on Apple Music 1, she said: &#8220;Maybe I&#8217;m more me now, not more me now, but as I&#8217;ve gotten older, maybe I&#8217;m giving more of me away, if that makes sense. But I just love music and love to feel and so I&#8217;ll just, if I hear something I love, I&#8217;m just going to sing that way. So yeah, that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re getting so many different pockets and things just, well, whatever I fancy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Little Things&#8217; hitmaker went on to add that her new record &#8211; which is due for release on 29 September &#8211; has come at the &#8220;perfect time&#8221; for her following a busy touring schedule but admitted she is still trying to &#8220;find the balance&#8221; between performing and creating.<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;Although I didn&#8217;t make it in the five years, I made it in the last two, but I feel like, yeah, I put &#8216;Lost and Found&#8217; out in 2018 and then went on tour for ages and then there&#8217;s lockdown and then started this album. So I think it was the perfect time.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I think I&#8217;m still trying to figure out that balance. I moved back home to Walsall and I feel like that made me actually be able to separate completely, just be low key and not Jorja Smith, even that&#8217;s my name. And then if I need to go on stage or do a video, then I can separate it. Right now I think I&#8217;m still figuring it out. I know it&#8217;s been a while, but it&#8217;s starting. But I don&#8217;t know, figuring it all out. But I definitely just love being in front of a microphone, whether it&#8217;s on stage or in the studio or anything in between.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/feel-jorja-smith-feels-giving-away-music-gets-older-1384588.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 August 2023 Jorja Smith feels as if she is &#8220;giving away more&#8221; of herself as she matures. Jorja Smith feels as if she is \u2018giving away more\u2019 of herself as she matures The 26-year-old singer\/songwriter \u2013\u00a0who released her debut single &#8216;Blue Lights&#8217; when she was still a teenager \u2013 explained in the run-up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3528,2467],"class_list":{"0":"post-35224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-jorja-smith","9":"tag-zane-lowe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}