Everybody has that one friend. Actually, most of us have several. The ones who text “omw” while still looking for their keys. Jackson Breit’s new single Sorry, I Can’t Wait takes that everyday annoyance and turns it into an upbeat soul pop record that feels more like a grin than a complaint.
The Virginia Beach artist has built a career on blending sounds that should not sit this comfortably together. Soul, pop, R&B, and hip hop all show up in his work, and he has a name for the mix: a sonic jambalaya. Sorry, I Can’t Wait sits right in that lane. It is commercial without sounding empty, bright without losing groove, and simple in the best way. You get the idea in one listen. Friends who are always late. He has many. The song treats that fact like something you can dance through instead of stew over.
That feel-good frame is the whole point. Commercial soul pop has been having a moment again, the kind of radio-ready writing that still leaves room for warmth and personality. Breit has been working that space for years. He first broke through with inventive covers, including the viral mash of Fetty Wap’s 679 and Blackstreet’s No Diggity, and later followed that with Covers and the 2025 follow-up Covers 2. Original singles have been part of the catalog too, from early releases like Sunny Side through later projects including Vanilla Reggie. Sorry, I Can’t Wait arrives as a new original cut in that long, self-produced run.
His background explains a lot of the tone. Deaf in his right ear from an early age, he still grew up on jazz trumpet and blues guitar before moving into hip hop production and then a solo career. That path is not a gimmick. It is how the records get their shape: live-instrument instincts meeting producer instincts. You hear it in the way his songs stay hooky without flattening into one texture. Soul in the vocal approach, pop in the structure, a little R&B smoothness, a little hip hop sense of bounce. The new single is built for playlists that want something upbeat and easy to share, the Sunday-brunch energy that already sits around his catalog.
What works here is the restraint. A song about lateness could turn snarky. This one stays light. That matches the pitch he sent with it: a feel-good soul pop song about friends who never show up on time. Relatable subject, clean commercial delivery, no over-explaining. In a year when listeners still reach for familiar grooves and short, sticky singles, that is a smart place to land.
If you already know Breit from the covers, this is a reminder that the original writing has the same ease. If you are new to him, Sorry, I Can’t Wait is an easy entry point. It does not ask you to study a concept. It asks you to recognize a situation and move with it.
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What do you think of this kind of light, story-first soul pop? Drop a comment if Sorry, I Can’t Wait hit that “I have those friends too” nerve.
