Pitchfork has revealed its selection of the 100 top songs of 2021, with Wizkid and Tems’ Essence ranking as the 14th best song of the year.
Wizkid’s global mega-hit, Essence featuring Tems, is now ranked 14th on Pitchfork’s new list of the 100 best songs of 2021.
The list was released on Monday, the 6th of December 2021.
Recall, mp3bullet.ng reported that Wizkid’s Essence feat. Tems was released as part of his Made in Lagos album, which will be released in 2020.
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The song became a worldwide hit, drawing the attention of pop sensation Justin Bieber, who immediately begged to be featured in the remix.
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Pitchfork writer, Brian Josephs writes;
When it first appeared on Made in Lagos in October 2020, WizKid’s “Essence” barely made a ripple, but by the following summer, the song’s melody broke through like the sun spilling from a bleak winter’s grasp. The song thrives off of the musician’s talent for slickly blending various shades of Black music, mixing Afrobeats with the sweaty R&B radio duets of the aughts. It radiates sensuality, from its beatific production to the way the track’s leading pair lustfully stretch their syllables over the instrumentals. But really, this is Tems’ showcase. When she sings her hot-blooded, “You don’t need no other body,” she wraps us all in her yearning, lovers and strangers alike