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JORJA SMITH'S 'BE RIGHT BACK' REVIEW. THE RED CHAPTER IS FOR BROKEN PASSION.

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Last month Jorja Smith released ' Be Right Back' , a project with eight songs that follows up her debut album (' Lost & Found '). The collection forgets her 2019 hit ,  Be Honest,  and Come Over, both with a more Jamaican sound, with reggae and dancehall influences.  The visuals for this chapter, alongside with the cover, are always framed by the colour red, which is the star of the cover for the album.  Red is the usual colour for passion or love, but ,in this record, it seems  bittersweet  and incomplete . Be Right Back starts with Addicted , full of Jorja's  delicious bare vocals. It was the first single released from the mini-album and it focuses on the realization after a break-up, with Jorja singing frankly after giving all in a relationship 'The hardest thing / You are not addicted to me/ I'm the only thing you should need'. The track includes soul production and alt-rock guitars that reminded me of part of John Mayer's solo in Fran