“Is Wanting More a Crime?” Jordana’s ‘Jordanaland’ Review

Last Updated on 2025-11-20 by a-indie

“Is wanting more a crime?”

This question posed by Jordana in her self-titled latest EP ‘Jordanaland’ is directed at everyone who continues to perform “kindness” in the real world.

Raised in a musical household where her father was an organist, she has captured listeners’ hearts with her highly transparent vocals since her 2019 debut.

However, what Jordana depicts in this work is not merely a beautiful world.

It’s the real reality of struggles with her father, the heavy theme of alcohol dependency, ambition toward reality and escapist desires, and more.

Pain hidden beneath pop melodies, the contradiction of still loving when you don’t want to love anymore, and finally exploding emotions and the founding of an ideal land.

What is the ‘Jordanaland’ that Jordana idealizes, and what is the music played there?

Jordana and ‘Jordanaland’

Text: Wakiki / Introduction and Lyric Translation: BELONG Media, A-indie

Jordana is an American singer-songwriter active since 2019.

With her father being an organist, Jordana has a musical background where she nurtured her sensibility amidst sounds overflowing in the church.

She has released several albums and EPs, and ‘Jordanaland’ is her new EP.

It’s a work characterized by a transparent voice and sound, as if water droplets rhythmically fall and burst.

At first glance of this title containing her own name, listeners can grasp the intention she put into this work.

‘Jordanaland’ is an escape from the real world (Americaland), an “oasis from chaos,” she says.

The artwork seems to be based on revolutionary war imagery, but to me it felt like a landscape of “a place where the heart lives,” freed from all the constraints of the real world.

As we listen through the EP, we witness scenery filled with empathy for real suffering and the desire to escape from it.

Singing of Conflict with Father and “Reluctant Love”

“Still Do” is one of the highlights. Over a pop and nostalgic melody, Jordana murmurs about feuds with her father and other disappointing people, and those complex feelings.

I wish I could say that you’d be okay

Don’t wanna tell you that I love you
But I still do, but I still do (love you)
But I still do, but I still do (love you)

Not wanting to have expectations anymore, yet still loving. You might call it “reluctant love”—that conflict comes through.