{"id":744204,"date":"2026-08-20T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744204\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:16:13","slug":"jorja-smith-on-fame-what-are-the-odds-and-escaping-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744204\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorja Smith on fame, What Are the Odds, and escaping London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Smith arrived at Isong\u2019s studio in Bethnal Green, she thought she would leave with a four-track EP. Two days passed. \u201cI went to my label\u2019s office, and I was like, \u2018Guys, I think this is an album. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a little dance project. Like, this is serious,\u2019\u201d she says, her nails clacking together as she makes the point. As it turns out, Isong had a whole Pandora\u2019s box of beats ready for Smith. \u201cWhen he played everything, I was just like, \u2018Wait, wait, wait, wait, this is sick.\u2019 And if I hear something and I love it, I always want to sing. We listened to literally one song, and I was like, \u2018OK, let\u2019s get the mic out and sing.\u2019\u201d Once Smith picked up the mic, she couldn\u2019t stop. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Smith arrived at Isong\u2019s studio in Bethnal Green, she thought she would leave with a four-track EP.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[246058,6491,96,1952,224624,14809,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-744204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-all-points-east","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-interview","tag-jorja-smith","tag-music-interviews","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}