Amaarae announces forthcoming album, BLACK STAR

“For as long as I’ve made music, fusion has been my strength and I think this comes to full fruition on S.M.O. The song takes inspiration from Ghanaian 80’s highlife trailblazer Ata Kak and blends it with a mean Detroit club bass, a drum roll akin to both Magic System’s “1er Gaou” & Michael Jackson’s “Rock With You” and an infectious zouk melody that sounds like a steel pan lipsing an evil synth,” Amaarae shares about the new single.

“I feel like the new Donna Summer mixed with Control era Janet and the song pretty much speaks for itself. Like Pleasure Principle or Love To Love You Baby, I don’t know how much clearer one can get when they ask you to “SLUT ME OUT”. The message can’t be mistaken and the beat makes you move. That’s all I want to do this summer, make people dance & feel things!”

The first new music since her critically acclaimed 2023 sophomore LP, Fountain Baby, "S.M.O." arrives the day after Juneteenth, accompanied by a video where sculpted physiques and pride in Ghanaian heritage take centre stage. Filmed in Ghana, the high-energy celebration of the beauty and power of the Black body ushers in the new era she deems BLACK STAR.