next level at 40: 🌸TIWA SAVAGE’s CELIA🌸 album

NY Times critic Jon Pareles interviews her about new album, her life (in Nigeria, UK, and Us), her divorce, stint at Berklee College of Music, and songwriting(including as a hired songwriter in Los Angeles) and marketing

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/arts/music/tiwa-savage-celia.html

Savage wrote and recorded “Celia” the way many Western pop stars make albums: She convened a songwriting camp. She booked eight rooms for 15 days at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos, where producers and musicians could come and go, bouncing ideas off one another as Savage supervised, selected tracks and came up with top lines. “Just put your heart into it, and let’s have fun,” she told them.

thanx for that!

I just called to say Pakalamisi

“nakupenda”

thanks beastcrawl for this. I've probably played this album more than anything else this year, it's gorgeous

my pleasure, mafu12 (you can call me breastcrawl btw:-)

what’s your favourite track? I went from “Glory” to “FWMM” to currently, unquestionably, “Pakalamisi”.

whoops lol.. sorry, breastcrawl. The whole thing rules (even the "interlude") but I'll say "Save My Life"

latest video is for "Ole" with Naira Marley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7rcfEboa7g

meanwhile, I'm still all about "Pakalamisi". make it happen, Tiwa!

this album's incredible, so glad I finally got to it. thanks for the thread!

Time has Celia as one of its top 10 albums of the year:

https://time.com/5915313/best-albums-2020/

new ep out, apparently!

new single “Stamina” with Ayra Starr and Young Jonn, produced by Magicsticks of Asake fame;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90uaFhWaT_Y

(mainly because I want SNA to be as colourful as possible)