**Jewelia portrays self-blame and heartbreak in nostalgic bedroom pop single**

A soft pop song about heartbreak, with dreamy vocals, a chill mellow electronic beat and a folky guitar in the choruses, ‘Was it You or Was it Me?’ is about feeling alone and insecure after a failed relationship, while looking back with melancholy at all that went wrong. 

In 2020, a time where many artists struggled for inspiration, Jewelia found a way to force creativity by challenging herself to write and record a song every month. ‘Was it You or Was it Me’ was born from this challenge. Talking about the song, Jewelia explains: 

“I’ve not written 'Was it You or Was it Me' about myself, but about someone very close to me who has gone through a heartbreak last year. Break-ups are difficult at any time, even more so in the context of a pandemic. My friend had to deal with this completely on her own; I wish I could have been there to comfort her, but I was unable to.” 

“We’ve all been in situation where we’ve been disappointed by someone, or felt like we let someone down, and we beat ourselves up. Guilt is a powerful emotion, which comes hand in hand with the feeling of unworthiness and fear of rejection. The song is about accepting and understanding one’s part in the failure of a relationship, and eventually resigning to the fact that maybe it just wasn’t meant to be.” 

Jewelia's music is a mixture of piano-powered fairy tales and nostalgia infused indie pop. Her eclectic style takes influences from the music of piano-driven songstresses like Kate Bush and Tori Amos and more modern artists such as Lana del Rey, Billie Eilish or Sufjan Stevens. 

Her previous single ‘Is This World Mine' has received airplay from BBC Upload in Kent, and over 20 other regional UK radio stations. Previously, Jewelia received support from BBC Nottingham, BBC Introducing Three Counties and Eagle Radio in UK, and also airplay on national radio in Romania (National FM and Europa FM) after her song ‘Aquarium’ was chosen as the soundtrack of a mini-that aired on Romanian television.Her debut album, which raised over $5000 on Kickstarter, was in top three albums of the year on Cam FM Breakthrough in 2019. Jewelia has been growing a strong online presence and has over one million total YouTube views on her channel. 

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Was It You Or Was It Me

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Validation

The Quiet Ones

Queen Of Make Believe

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Fragile

Loser

You Were There

Invisible Wall

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Let Go

Nothing Else

Daddy Issues (The Neighbourhood cover & remix)

01 The Ones That Never Tried

02 Love It Out Of Me

Song #2: February
More details: www.jewelia-music.com/project-2020-millennial
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/jewelia-project2020

Lyrics:
I left my home a while ago
I left my home all on my own
the first time on a plane to go
to some place that I didn’t know

I left my mother all alone
she’s now a voicemail on my phone
i went to search for something more
but life was easier before

Flowers in my windows
I water them but nothing grows

As I grew up, I learned a lot
that I’m not special, I’ll get old
that even when I get things wrong
I’m not the centre of the world

Flowers in my windows
I water them but nothing grows

I need more light, I need more love
I need a bigger skin to grow
I need more light, I need more love
I need a bigger skin to grow

Flowers in my windows
Flowers in my windows

This planet is my country now
I’ll find a place in it somehow
and even if I don’t belong
I’ve got a place I once called home

Flowers

London-based singer-songwriter Jewelia shares moving snapshot of our time with single ‘Is This World Mine’, accompanied by a socially conscious music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etJ9oOoznCA

Art pop reminiscent of MARINA and Kate Bush, with dreamy vocals, ambient/lo-fi elements, Billie Eilish bass and anthemic chorus, ‘Is This World Mine’ is about feeling powerless when faced with the challenges of the New Twenties - be it racism, climate change, coronavirus or violence against women. 

“‘Is This World Mine’ is a song about feeling dislocated from reality. The pandemic has changed the world forever, and even when we go back to normal, the residue of these changes will stay with us. And all the other issues of modern society, which were momentarily overshadowed, will still be there.” 

In 2020, a time where many artists struggled with inspiration, Jewelia found a way to force creativity by challenging herself to write, record and share with her fans a song every month. Born from this challenge, ‘Is This World Mine’ was written as a reflection upon what was a turbulent year.

"What originally sparked me to write ‘Is This World Mine’ was a news story in October 2020 that another boat carrying refugees capsized in the English Channel. Two children, aged five and eight, as well as two adults died. What shocked me most was the volume of heartless comments I was seeing online, it left me with a feeling of dread. I had this sudden urge to do something, anything, coupled with the realisation that there is not much that us, common people, can do to influence the big scheme of things. In the end, I turned to the one thing I know to do best: I wrote a song.”

In a world where roughly 2% of music producers are women, Jewelia proudly self-produces her own songs. Furthermore, ‘Is This World Mine’ was mastered by Cicely Balston of AIR Studios, one of two women engineers nominated for the MPG Mastering Engineer of the Year award in 2021. The song was mixed by Niko Battistini (MARINA, Charlie XCX, Maisie Peters, Ed Sheeran).

The video, filmed in lockdown, includes stock footage of world events, environmental catastrophe, protest movements and empty streets in the midst of a pandemic, interspersed with shots of Jewelia singing against a dark background and in an industrial-looking environment.

The hopeless feeling of the song is countered by a hopeful glimpse in the last chorus, where images of nature, wildlife, and love of all kinds are cut in, the message being that even in difficult times, we must remember that the world is full of beauty and wonder.

Is This World Mine

Jewelia writes, produces and performs a mixture of nostalgia-infused indie pop and piano-powered fairy-tales.

Her eclectic style takes influences from the music of piano-driven songstresses like Kate Bush and Tori Amos, and more modern pop artists such as Lana del Rey, MARINA or Billie Eilish. Her music stays within the realms of pop, while exploring different facets of it with different releases. 

Jewelia’s music has received support from BBC Upload in Kent, with seven songs and an interview played on the show by Leo Ulph, and by Abbie Mac on BBC Introducing in Kent. Her music was also played on BBC Nottingham, BBC Introducing Three Counties, Eagle Radio, Amazing Radio and Cambridge 105, among others. Her debut album 'City of My Mind' was in top three albums of the year on Cam FM Breakthrough in 2019.

Jewelia’s song ‘Aquarium’ received national radio airplay on National FM and Europa FM in Romania after it was chosen as the official soundtrack of the award-winning mini-series, ’13 Shades of Romanian’, which aired on Romanian television and was screened at prestigious film festivals in London, Rome and Los Angeles.

To date, Jewelia has successfully crowdfunded two records: ‘This Love Song is Better Left Unsung’ EP in 2019, and her debut album, ‘City of my Mind’ which raised over $5000 on Kickstarter in 2018. Throughout 2020, she wrote, recorded and shared with her fans a song on the 20th of each month as part of #Project2020. 

Jewelia has been growing a strong online presence and has over 1.2 million YouTube views on her channel, and consistently reaches 15 000 monthly listeners on Spotify.

Jewelia is based in London, but originally hails from Bucharest, Romania.

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