JORDANA BRYANT

                                                           "New Friends" 

                                                            Riser House Entertainment

With her ultra-catchy single “Guilty,” Jordana Bryant took a huge leap forward on her career path as she connected directly with her core age demographic by delivering a song all about teenage crushing on someone and breaking free from your own thoughts and anxiety to finally admit that you’re guilty as charged of falling for them.

She now returns with her brand-new song, “New Friends,” and continues to unravel those anxious, confusing emotions that come with growing up through your teenage years.

“I get it, we’re 17 and it’s a Saturday night…And I get it, I can’t compete with the party or the lights,” she sings as the song opens, setting the entire emotion with her vocals as her lyrics, while admittingly saying she understands, perfectly captures the raw hurt so well that you get the feeling that she really doesn’t understand at all.

“New Friends” is all about losing your longtime best friend as life changes and you are now pushed aside and replaced by their new friends as they become more important to them, while you continue to grow apart as is revealed throughout chorus:

“New clothes and new kicks

Inside jokes with the cool kids

Chasing new that and new this

Switching old posts for new pics

Got new bands on your t-shirts

New plans but stopped calling me first

People say people don’t change

But they do when old friends get new friends”

What Bryant manages to do so so well, is utilize her voice to convey the flurry of emotions - from desperation to hurt - while splicing in absolutely, painstakingly truthful lines such as, “Friends forever doesn’t always mean for life.”

We’ve all lost friends – that’s just an inevitable fact of life. They’ll move on without any real rhyme or reason and seemingly be living their best life without you. However, the hardest part in all of it is that it always leaves you filled with anxiety as you wonder what you did wrong that might have caused it, unfairly pointing blame at yourself.

Jordana Bryant perfectly captures this confusion throughout “New Friends,” while also very skillfully allowing the right amount of room for any listener age demographic to attach their own personal stories to this while keeping the modern phrasing enough intact so that stays fresh for today’s listener.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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