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'A Drunk Dial to fame'

Jourdan

Getting 'sober'

"It's been a weird journey, actually," she says.

"At first I was purely this girl with a guitar and I was like, 'God, I'm not sure I want to be a singer-songwriter who tours on her own'. So I had to work out how to find new sounds and new sonics and make it somehow a fully-formed thing.

"But around two years ago, I kind of worked it out and now I feel really confident in the music."

The breakthrough was Sober - a song about her tendency to drunk-dial her ex that, brilliantly, Jourdan wrote while she was "a little tipsy" and trying to stay away from her phone.

Released in 2018, it's her most-streamed song on Spotify and her most popular hit on the lyric website Genius, where a quarter of a million fans have looked up the words.

"When I was writing it, I definitely didn't think, 'Everyone's gonna relate to this,'"

"I was feeling a certain way and needed to get it out - but of all my songs, it's definitely the one that's had the most covers, so there's something about it that's relatable."

Musically, Sober set Jourdan's languid, jazzy vocals against brushed keys and a rippling synth bass. It marked a massive departure from the acoustic soul of earlier tracks like 17 and Marry Me, but it instantly felt right.

"It was the first time

I felt like a song had every single part of me within it," she says.

"[It had] my weird melodies and lyrics and that R&B feel that I knew I loved, but couldn't find on the guitar alone.

"It just took me a second of not thinking too hard, I think."

By Mark Savage

BBC Music reporter

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