“There was a lot of emotional rebuilding,” Ora says of the past five years, settling into a couch in a New York hotel room in late April, while Team Rita packs up lights and clothing racks from an earlier shoot and surreptitiously drops off mini bottles of Diet Coke. The professional news: She left her old record label and signed a new deal with BMG that grants her ownership of all future master recordings. Not everything is easy and straightforward to understand, but you already got the song’s general message, and you can infer the rest from the context.Press Play is a recurring column that looks at (and listens to) the songs that have shaped the life and work of beloved musical artists.Ī lot has happened in Rita Ora’s life since her last album came out in 2018. ![]() Maybe another time, maybe another life you will be my wife and we’ll get it rightįans believe the song refers to Burna Boy’s relationship with the UK rapper Stefflon Don, with whom he broke up recently. He wonders if things would go differently in another life and if the girl would become his wife. And towards the song’s end, the singer says explicitly that he has done everything she wanted, and still, it didn’t work. “Igbo” is Yoruba for “weed,” and “shayo” stands for “alcohol.”īurna Boy’s pain is real: through his slang, he says that his mood has gone up and down like a rollercoaster, using the line “my feelings been dey swing like jangolova” (Jangolova is the Nigerian English word that refers to the playground). The chorus becomes, therefore, clear: the way Burna Boy is coping with the heartbreak pain is through alcohol and smoke. Nothing to discuss o, cause I dey win by default oĪnd without any doubt o, omo me I be adult o All this is sung in the same English/afro slang that could be hard to understand: ![]() There is no reason to discuss it because he feels he’s right anyway. The girl was the one who manipulated his feelings. Reading the lines of the song, Burna Boy feels he did everything right.
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