Let Me Down

"Let Me Down" is a song recorded by English singer Jorja Smith featuring rapper Stormzy. It was written by Smith, Stormzy and Ed Thomas, with production handled by Thomas and Paul Epworth. The song was released commercially for digital download on 11 January 2018. Background The track, which was in the works for almost two years, premiered on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show, where Smith spoke about the collaboration. "I remember I was in studio with [producer] Ed Thomas, and he was playing the chords on the piano and I was singing, and Stormzy kind of drifted in and out – that's kind of what he does on the verse. It was just beautiful and magical. I think we made a really special moment, and he's such a nice guy." She offered in another interview: "Stormzy like floated into the room, like came on the track – it's magic. That was 2016, and then I was in the studio with Ed and he came through to the session, but I had already wrote the beginning of it and then we just left verse 2. Stormzy was so late, so late. But it was cool because his verse made up for it and he is sick." Smith added in a press release: "'Let Me Down' is about meaning very little to someone, but being okay with that, even though it hurts." She explained that the song was inspired by her dream of writing a James Bond theme song. "When I am writing music I sometimes envision a video playing alongside. 'Let Me Down' does sound quite Bond-y: you can imagine it during a scene when James Bond has gone down into an underground, dimly lit, secret bar and he approaches the Bond girl who is sitting at the bar looking very guilty because she's done something bad and let him down." Ed Thomas, the song's co-writer and producer, revealed that the demo was recorded in a studio session late last winter. "It tends to be when Jorja and I write. We don't talk about what kind of music we'd like to create. We just talk about what's going on in life and how we're feeling... That's a really good thing when you're writing songs, 'cause then you know it's true."