Jorja Smith has gone from scamming mechanic in her video for 'Bussdown' to child nanny in her visualisation for the album track, 'Home'. After hood-winking naive punters with Shaybo in a dodgy back street garage in May, Jorja Smith has found new employment with a wealthy family in the leafy suburbs.
Jorja Smith swaps her mechanics boiler suit for her Ahluwalia nanny's outfit to look after the daughter of a family that seem to have it all; a stunning house on a lake, a top of the range car, designer outfits and plenty of charming friends. All is not as perfect as it seems though as both the mother of the family, and the daughter that she is conflicted about sending away to boarding school, struggle to appreciate, or see the benefit of, their clinical and dispassionate well-to-do lifestyle.
'Home' is one of the eight tracks on Jorja Smith's new mixtape that she released on May 14th this year. 'Be Right Back' is Smith's biggest collection of songs to be released since her breakthrough album of 2018, 'Lost & Found'. 'Home', the latest song to be featured from 'Be Right Back' is a co-write with Michael Stafford and Ed Thomas, two artists who also featured on her full length debut album.
Jorja's soft, gentle, soulful and reflective track captures her torment as she grapples with the reality that love can't buy you happiness as she sings, "One day, I said I would be rich and I said I'd have a family, Would I really be content with my husband and his family? Oh, no, What's worse than lookin' at my neighbours pretendin' that they're happy, mm, Is one day lookin' at myself and I'm sayin' that I'm sorry, mm."
Taking to Twitter as her new video premiered Jorja posted, "Something I can’t say to myself but I’ll say it in the mirror",... "I wrote 'Home' about keeping up appearances, something I’m guilty of myself, aren’t we all..."