Susannah Joffe is a singer-songwriter working in a careful, folk-adjacent lane with writing that stays close to the specific. "Some People" is built on a simple observation: some people are like this, and some people are like that, and the gap between those two categories is where relationships live or fail. The writing does not overexplain the gap. It trusts the listener to bring their own version of it to the song. Her production choices are consistent with that trust: spare, warm, and precisely arranged around the vocal rather than over it. She is early in building her catalog, and "Some People" is the kind of song that signals someone who already understands what the writing requires without needing the production to do extra work. We pull songs like this because the craft is evident before the audience is large. That gap between craft and reach tends to close over time when the quality is real.
Susannah Joffe