Why I was irritated while writing my hit song ‘Joromi’ – Simi

• Simi has opened up on the circumstances that led to her writing a particular hit song “Joromi”.
• The singer and mother of one said she had not idea the song would later become a hit as it was a deadline song.
• Simi added that she felt very irritated at the time and wrote 5 different songs on a beat before she finally settled for Joromi.

Nigerian singer, Simisola Kosoko has revealed that she was irritated during the period she wrote her 2017 hit song ‘Joromi’.

She disclosed this during an interview with CNN.

The Afrobeats star revealed that she wasn’t a fan of the song at the time she wrote it, and even sang it with irritation.

Simi who is Adekunle Gold’s wife also spoke about where her inspiration for her music comes from. She said:

“Sometimes I don’t have any inspiration but I have a deadline. I don’t really like those, because you know you have to force it to come. And I’m not crazy about those.”

“I’ve made really great songs from those. ‘Joromi’ was one of those.”

She said when she worked on “Joromi” she thought she had finished writing the songs for the album, but the team sent the beat to her and she needed to write a song for it.

Simi continued:

“’Joromi’ was a deadline song. I was even done. They sent me a beat and I was like I’m done writing.”

“I wrote like five different songs on that beat that I didn’t like and then ‘Joromi’ came but it was like a deadline song.”

Though she said that she was irritated at the time, she is now glad she wrote it.

Simi added:

“I didn’t even want to write the song. I was just irritated. But I’m glad that I did.”

The music video for “Joromi” has 19 million views on YouTube.