It Was Hard For Me To Create ‘Joromi’ ― Simi

Simi is presently doing well with her single ‘Joromi’. The track which was released last week. The song, which is a new expression of love, gets its title and style from a legendary Nigerian single – Sir Victor Uwaifo’s ‘Joromi’.

‘Joromi’ is the lead single off her now released album, “Simisola”.

Asked how “Joromi” came about in a recent interview, she said “Actually, I had already finished most of the songs on my album, we thought it was already complete. Oscar my producer said he was going to send me a beat, but I was actually tired of writing already. When he sent it, I fell in love with the beat, and then I started to write it.

It was a bit hard for me, because creatively I wasn’t in that space. I was mixing all the songs on my album, and it was a bit hard for me to create that song. But because I really liked the beat, I just kept going. I wrote 4 songs before I finally got ‘Joromi’.

I was trying to think an angle, I just sang the chorus and really liked the way it sounded, so I just built around that. One thing I did in my entire album is that I try to get inspirations from the work of legends. Not too long before I created the song, I was listening to ‘Joromi’ by Sir Victor Uwaifo, and I really liked the call-and –response thing he did, and it was inspiring. It makes the song more interactive. That’s one of the main reasons why I did the call-and-response in the song inspired.
I also wanted to use the name. I have not heard that name in any other song before, so I thought it was going to be nostalgic and all.”

“I was trying to be discrete, but not so much. She’s not going outright and telling him ‘I like you’.

She’s doing things that are supposedly mistakes, so he gets to see her, and give him the opportunity to fall for her she has fallen for him.

She wants him to be the one that is asking her out, but she’s trying to give him signs. It isn’t un-African as some people might see it. It’s something that has always happened. You like a guy and you don’t want to say it, so you just drop signs. I think every lady has at one point done it in some way, shot their shot in one way or another.”