“Sometimes there aren’t enough words, and sometimes words aren’t enough,” she explained on the day the single was released. If societal systems don’t promise to protect all people, then as Smith sings, the unprotected will protect each other. Written by Smith along with Ezrah Roberts-Gray, her newest single, “ By Any Means” is a moving promise of protection for not only her own hope but for her black brothers, sisters, and non-binary.
The R&B artist took her emotion, empathy, and pain and twisted all of it into a new song that cries for change, but also senses hope and resilience for the future. The demands for justice and equality that sparked this year’s series of Black Lives Matter protests in America quickly spread across the globe reaching major cities like London, home of Jorja Smith. follow our Today’s Song(s) playlist Listen: “By Any Means” – Jorja Smith R&B artist Jorja Smith wrote and recorded her emotions about the Black Lives Matter movement and turned it into “By Any Means,” a moving song of promise and strength.
