JORDANA BRYANT

                                                           "Best Friend" 

                                                            Riser House Entertainment

With so much buzz circling around her, when hot rising country starlet Jordana Bryant dropped her highly anticipated 6-song EP earlier this year, it instantly center pieced everyone’s attention on her through very well-received songs “Wholly” and “Penniless & Broke.” 

She now returns with her first new music since the EP, “Best Friend.”

Staying well within the growing pains of her near twenty-something aura, Bryant expertly sings through the confused anxiety that arrives in not only in the aftermath of a breakup, but a split from who you considered to be your best friend as she travels through the tough process of trying to figure out the why’s.

The song, which she co-wrote with Zach Kale and Seth Mosley, leans into piano laced instrumentation to add perfect softness to the vulnerability of the lyrics and the waver of her voice as she runs down a list of everything she can do to help get over the breakup – delete his photos and texts, find a new guy to obsess over, or start writing her feelings in a journal - only to then flip to the transparent truth of the reasons she can’t just let him go, singing in the chorus:

“Maybe if I didn’t fall for a friend

Throw my heart all in

By now I’d be okay

Maybe if there wasn’t all those years

That he saw my tears

Heard my heartbreak stories

Somebody out there please help me

If you got the answer just tell me

How did you get over an ex

How do you move on when your ex

Was your best friend”

The second verse painstakingly travels through an old photo album of their growing up together, twisting the heart tug that much more while she reminisces on how deep their friendship runs when she tells of them being best friends since sixth grade, him being there for her through all the bad days, and how he showed up for her with a bouquet when she had no prom date.

With the pounding of the instrumentation through the musical bridge, the song sonically carries the frantic race of her heartbeat struggle, while her crying out in the chorus for somebody, anybody who’s out there to please help adds the naturally desperate cry out to God.

Jordana Bryant is one of country music’s hot young talents and songs like this are a reason why. Her perfect toeing of genre lines between pop and country without flavoring her music one way or the other, combines with the incredible know-how within her voice to capture lyrical emotion so beautifully that it intentionally strikes the right chords with the intended listener.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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