Listen to an episode of Jessie Ware’s hugely successful podcast and you can tell she’s a hoot, swearing and blinding as she bickers with her mum in the kitchen, trying not to burn dinner for their famous guests. It’s a little at odds with her image as a melancholy soul-pop operator, but who says you can’t be sultry and hilarious at once. When the world is falling apart, though, it’s hard to be upbeat. The singer is in the unprecedented position of having to promote an album in the middle of a pandemic and the biggest global outcry about racial injustice that we’ve ever experienced.