Tiwa Savage almost quits music after backlash from “love me love me love me”

In Tiwa Savage’s interview with the New York Times on her new Album ‘Celia’, she talked about the backlash she got then on her sophomore single “Love me love me love me” video which showed her in bed with a shirtless man and was banned by the National Broadcasting Commission in Nigeria. Savage said she was told “this is too sexy. You can’t be this” and the more they kept on saying no, the more she kept doing her thing as being sexy got her into the market. “The skirts got shorter, the lashes got longer” she said

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The New York Times reported that at one point Savage retreated to Los Angeles and considered going back to simply being a songwriter. “But then I would open my DMs, and I’d see all these young girls being like, ‘I love your sleeve tattoo. I love your piercing,” she said “and it was like, I have to go back for these girls. Now I say that I want to inspire girls, but they inspired me to come back.”