ADEKUNLE GOLD: PHARRELL WILLIAMS CHANGED MY LIFE
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By Adeniyi Paul
The fifth album by Nigerian singer Adekunle Gold (AG), titled “Tequila Ever After,” is about to be released.
Adekunle Gold talks to Nandi Madiba, the host of Apple Music Africa Now Radio, on how his new album, “Tequila Ever After,” came to be.
Adekunle Gold claimed that he was given a bottle of tequila to help him cheer up after his previous album, “Catch Me If You Can,” was delayed. He had never consumed that particular brand of alcohol before, and according to AG, the booze changed his entire demeanor.
I discovered tequila for the first time last year – yeah, I know. We had moved my ‘Catch Me If You Can’ release that day, and I was so upset about it. I wanted the album to come out at a certain time, so I was just upset and obviously, they knew I needed an antidote or something. They brought me a bottle of Patron and I had just one shot… I’m telling you, tequila makes everything better. My mood lifted so much and I’m like ‘sheesh!’. It felt so good.
I pay attention to things a lot and I’m like wait, this experience should not just happen like this without me talking about it. I wondered what if people listen to my music and this is how they feel? I made a song that day and it was a beautiful song and I’m like you know what, I’m going to carry on with this energy. I’m going to let people feel this way after one shot.”
The fifth album by AG, Tequila Ever After, marks the official start of his Tio Tequila creative phase. The record, according to AG, is the fifth stage of his experience, and he is at most happiest, cheeriest, and most certain.
I’m on level five of my adventure game and it’s all fun. It’s happy, it’s a party, it’s more confident, all better off. When you take tequila, it’s all better off – you don’t give any damn, you just say whatever you want to say, and that’s what ‘Tequila Ever After’ means. It’s a metaphor for where I am in my life right now. I’m in a very happy state – like very, very happy – and I want it to shine through the music.”
“Pharrell changed my life with this tweet – I think it was as far back as like 2011 or 2013 – he said something about ‘you are that person already, just put yourself in that place’, and ever since I found that tweet, my perspective of life changed. I stopped being afraid and I started to put myself out there more, moving like a superstar.
One of the things I tell people is if you believe in yourself, you rig the game. You rig the game by just being yourself. Those words changed my life and working with Pharrell on this album? An absolute beauty. Everything about this album is a manifestation that’s happened already.”
With the release of his number-one single “Party No Dey Stop” and the subsequent release of “Omo Eko” and “Do You Know,” AG has had a successful year. When ‘Tequila Ever After’ is released on July 28, he plans to release the most prestigious album of 2023.
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