Nigerian Afrobeats star and Grammy nominee, Oyinkansola Aderibigbe aka Ayra Starr has opened up on her collaboration with American singer, GIVĒON, for her soulful ballad, Last Heartbreak Song.’
In a chat with Apple Music, Ayra Starr revealed the emotions behind the song on her sophomore album, The Year I Turned 21,’ saying, “GIVĒON’s verse made me cry the first time I heard it, I was so happy. He came with the most perfect perspective, because if anybody that has been in an argument with a man, or any man that’s been arguing with a girl, would know [that] ‘Last Heartbreak Song’ is literally the dynamic.”
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Unknown to many, the melancholic track tackles a failing relationship in which the Nigerian singer-songwriter is coming to terms with the fact that her whirlwind romance has now turned one-sided. Even though the realisation is heartbreaking, Starr knows she’s better on her own, despite GIVĒON’s pleas to make their relationship work.
The Mavins signee also opened up about her struggle with writer’s block and how it affected her.
“I got the demo of ’21’ from a friend as a birthday gift the day I turned 21,” She said in a viral podcast interview. “I had told him that it has been so hard… I was having a writer’s block for six months. I couldn’t write about myself then he gave me the first version of the song in a demo as my birthday gift.
