EP Just For Me by Just Leila is an emancipating, loving, and free scream. Review of a gift the artist offers to herself today, on her birthday.
JUST FOR ME – JUST LEILA
Bébé? shows her mental strength, asking for what she wants with love and kindness. Tender and mischievous, she is seductive on a French-spoken pop-jazz here. Just Leila also shows she’s strong-headed on Don’t Be Alarmed, a vertigo-inducing and dizzy sound experience. In More Than DNA, the singer-songwriter invites sounds from Morocco and electronica, getting Arab and English together for a poignant result. She is not denying her origins, but she frees herself from a cramped cell to bloom fully as Just Leila. Moving and emancipating.
And after freedom, Just Leila dares not know where to go or what to do. It’s through the hypnotizing Ché Pas that she designs as the soundtrack. Always with that grain in her voice, she takes the lead even when she isn’t sure. Desert Song is the sequel of her liberation, where she goes from one desert to another with the same determination. Lastly, the artist closes her EP with Just for Me, an honest portrait with impressive vocals backing a spoken text. And all of this is first and foremost a gift to herself. And that’s why Just Leila’s EP Just For Me is so moving.