Norah's World

FemaleRNB sat down with Norah’s World, an emerging R&B artist with a magnetic, delicate yet confident energy. 🌍

With her unique blend of softness, attitude and emotional depth, Norah stands out as one of the fresh voices shaping today’s alternative R&B scene.

Her new EP ‘Gotta Get Serious’ explores growth, vulnerability and self-expression through a sound that feels both intimate and honest.

For readers who are discovering you: who is Norah’s World?

For readers who don’t know Norah’s World is a lover and creator of music!

Your new EP Gotta Get Serious has just dropped, congratulations! How did it feel to finally share it with the world?

Thank you so much! It feels like a great relief to have finally shared this project.

The title Gotta Get Serious feels like both a statement and a turning point. What made you choose it, and what does it represent for you at this moment in your journey?

I agree that it is both a statement and a turning point. I think this part of my journey feels exactly like the title. I think I’ve always seen music as something super fun and while it is also fun it’s also something I’m very serious about and I found myself making so many joke songs or songs for fun that didn’t have much meaning to me and I think this is my first batch of songs where I started to turn that curb

The EP feels very cohesive, emotionally and sonically. How did you approach building its sound and atmosphere as a whole?

I think something that I’m grateful for is the way my brain works because I didn’t mean to make it so cohesive it’s just the songs I was making all at the same time and they all happen to have a hint of similarity that keeps them together. Along with the different vocal stims, I was using at the time I think the project is so balanced. I didn’t even realize till the other day that they are all in the key of F and I didn’t make all the beats so that just goes to show that I like what I like and it helps keep everything cohesive on accident.

Zoe Side and The Spot show two different moods within the EP, one more introspective, the other more confident. How did you approach those two energies when writing these songs?

My energy when making the spot was exactly how the song sounds fun, upbeat, flirty, and when I was making Zoe side, I was in a very tough spot in life. I remember I was living with my sister and it would be a 20 minute walk from the train to her house and I can remember whipping out my phone and looking at all the email beats that I get all the time that I never look at and this beat just spoke to me andI tend to focus on love when other hard things are going on, and I just poured out into Zoe side, so those two songs truly show the duality of where my head was at the time cause they weren’t made too far apart

Cyph City brings a special dynamism to the project. What made you want to include that track, and what were you hoping to express through it?

I wanted to include safe city because it’s a great representation of how I make music when collaborating all of us just kind of went out on a whim and recorded that song and it was so casual but so good and I had to include it also I love to show range and I think it’s a great display of range for me and all the other artists that are on the song.

Across these songs, we hear themes of growth, authenticity, and self-discovery. What messages or emotions were most important for you to share through this project?

through this project, I wanted to show where I’m at so far or I guess where I was at so far I’m a big believer in showing people that might be listening your growth and I knew these songs weren’t gonna be my best of all time, but I knew they were songs. I was in love with at the time that I was making them and I’m so glad to drop these songs as a sort of stepping stone into my next music so I had to share it even though I have so many more things to share I thought it’s a really good idea to always drop in a continuous way where everything gets better and better with time. I wanted to show that timeline.

If you had to pick one song to represent the whole EP, which one would it be, and why?

 I think put me on is a great representation of the entire project because it has those drill. Sounds along with the message and mixes in the fun that I love to include in my songs like I’m joking around a little bit, but the words are so serious. My second choice would definitely be drillsoul though. Because that’s exactly what this project is drill music and soulful singing.

Which female R&B artists have inspired you the most in how you create and express yourself?

 I think I love so many female R&B artist but when it comes to actually inspiring me, I would say Rochelle Jordan, Clara la San, kelela, and Joyce wrice who I’ve got to be in the studio with I think her music is so amazing. My music definitely has a lot of other genre influences, but in terms of R&B, those girls do it for me.

You’ve built a sound that blends R&B with other influences. Are there any female R&B singers, past or present, you’d love to collaborate with?

If I’m looking in past tense, I’d love to collaborate with Amy Winehouse or Lauryn Hill. I think present I love summer Walker or SZA or any of the girls I named that inspire me. Also, not sure if we would consider Beyoncé R&B, but I mean Beyoncé above all else always lol.

What do you hope listeners feel or take away after hearing Gotta Get Serious?

I hope listeners can see where I’m at. I’m really passionate about growing together and I hope if this is the first thing they’ve heard from me it makes them down for the ride cause it’s gonna be a crazy one. I also hope they take away from this that life is really what you make it and that they are worthy of trying for themselves doing better then they ever could cause anything is possible and that putting themselves on a pedestal is beautiful.

Is there something you learned about yourself while creating this project?

I learned so much while creating this project because this is the first time I’ve ever had a project that I felt like other people will actually hear what I’ll be dropping, so I learned what my best was at the time I was making it.

Now that the EP is out, what’s next for you? What do you want this next chapter to look like?

Next step for me, I will be dropping my favorite music that I have in the vault. During the course of making this last EP I have met so many incredible mental talented people, and been way more incredible places and have made music in all of them and I’m so incredibly grateful to share all of that music. Next step is gonna be crazier, visuals and even more interesting sounds and beats. I hope this next chapter is full of immense elevation because the songs just get better from here.