Sam Smith has teamed up with R&B and Afrobeats artist Tiwa Savage for her brand new single. Shimmying onto streaming platforms on Monday the 24th of August, the track is entitled Temptation. Savage also enlisted the help of fellow Nigerian artist Adedamola Adefolahan, commonly known under his stage moniker Fireboy DML, who co-wrote the collaborative Temptation.
Temptation is taken from the tracklist of Celia, Tiwa Savages’ swiftly approaching new record. Celia will be the fourth studio album from Savage and is set for release on Friday the 28th of August. This month Savage shared two tracks from the upcoming Celia, entitled Koroba and Dangerous Love.
Sultry and smooth, Temptation encapsulates why Tiwa Savage is widely known as the ‘Queen of Afrobeats’. With sunshine bright instrumentation, powerhouse vocals and Afrobeats-infused percussion, Temptation explores an unrelenting desire between two people.
Savage leads the first verse and chorus of Temptation, her mighty vocals belt the lyrics: “If you do me nice/If you do me right/I’ma give you everything you like.”, which immediately set the song’s flirtatious tone.
Sam Smith’s work on the second verse and chorus takes Temptation up a notch. Smith’s angelic voice sings “The shape of your body, replays in my mind/The sound of your promises, echo in me deep inside/Crave your attention, it compliments my pride”, amping up the track’s sensuality.
Savage and Smith continue with an amorous back and forth for the remainder of the track, singing “Temptation, temptation/That’s all I see when I look at you.” When speaking on the single, Tiwa Savage sang Smith’s praises. In a recent statement on Genius, Savage relayed that “we don’t know how amazing Sam is…it just changed the face of the project.”
An accompanying lyric video of Temptation dropped concurrently with the track’s release yesterday. A smoke show of pink and purple hues, Savage premiered the lyric video to her official YouTube channel, which has received a whopping 65,000 views.
Along with fan’s joyous reaction to Temptation, Savage and Smith’s creative collaboration has been warmly received by Apple Music, as the new single is currently sitting at #1 on the streaming giant’s coveted playlist, New Music Daily. Savage took pride in the well-deserved recognition with a post on Instagram, which has already gathered over 42,000 likes from Savage’s extensive following.
Sam Smith also took to social media to ring in the release of Temptation. Featuring a snippet of the sultry song to their Instagram platform, the Only One singer added the sweet caption: “I had so much fun working on this one with the unstoppable and beautiful talent that is @tiwasavage – thank you for the opportunity.” Garnering over 189,000 views, fans were clearly ecstatic at the news of the talented artist’s creative union.
Celia Tracklist:
1. Save My Life
2. Temptation
3. Pakalamisi
4. Koroba
5. Bombay
6. Dangerous Love
12. Park Well
13. Interlude (US)
14. FWMM
15. Ole
16. Attention
17.Glory
18. Celia’s Song
