Jorja Smith – Try Me (Audio, Lyrics, Video)

UK pop and R&B singer, Jorja Smith unveils the new “Try Me” song with an official music video. The piece was produced by SANDAME. Listen, stream, read the lyrics, buy the track.

Jorja Smith Try Me

The UK pop and R&B singer Jorja Smith released her debut album Lost & Found way back in 2018, and in 2021 she released an excellent EP called Be Right Back. Today she’s launching a new era with the DAMEDAME*-produced “Try Me,” an impressive mixture of smooth presence and jagged rhythm that ends by disappearing back into a soulful twilight. As on Smith’s incredible “Addicted,” the bass and drums on this could almost be rock music, but the overall vibe is more like if radio-ready R&B was Bond-theme glamorous, or maybe Adele if she did not have to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Smith says “Try Me” is about “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.” It’s paired with a video by Amber Grace Johnson; as Smith explains, “The dancer, Andrea Bou Othmane, embodies a bull which represents the world and its opinions out of my control.”

Jorja Smith – Try Me (prod. SANDAME)

14 April 2023
1 Song, 3 minutes
℗ 2023 FAMM

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Lyrics

Ask me about me again
You know it hurts to feel it
You should read between these-
Ask me about me again
Even when my heart declines
Nothing works when I don’t
Go ‘head try me
‘Cause I’m safe behind these walls
Think you can take me through the fog where I’m no challenge
Childish, childish
Yeah, you, you can try me

I’ve changed?
There’s only been one thing that I’ve changed
Nothin’ is ever enough
I don’t have to tell you what I’ve changed, oh-oh, no
‘Cause I couldn’t tell you that I’ve changed (Changed)
There’s only been one thing that has changed (Changed, changed)
Nothin’ is ever enough (Changed)
I don’t have to tell you what I’ve changed, no-oh, no
‘Cause I couldn’t tell you that-

I, I think too fast at times
I try to keep it out
But it don’t work even though I try to forget that
Even though I try to forget that
I know that it’s hard to ignore it
I know that it’s heartless to play me
Go ‘head try me

I’ve changed?
There’s only been one thing that I’ve changed
Nothin’ is ever enough
I don’t have to tell you what I’ve changed, oh-oh, no
‘Cause I couldn’t tell you that I’ve changed (Changed)
There’s only been one thing that has changed
Nothin’ is ever enough (Changed)
I don’t have to tell you what I’ve changed, no-oh
‘Cause I couldn’t tell you that

Hoping I’ve learnt
Take back your word
Might hurt, but I won’t hide
I know myself, I know I wasn’t
The only one that has been through what I have today
Can you wait for this second?
To please somebody else other than your needs
You’ve got a lot left on these sleeves
But your heart’s not on your sleeve
Try to believe me though
Gotta listen, gotta learn, gotta live, gotta fight, gotta earn
And your mind’s made up on me
I say your mind’s made up on me
Gotta live, gotta learn