{"id":54591,"date":"2020-06-26T11:15:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T09:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=54591"},"modified":"2020-09-26T18:56:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T16:56:39","slug":"burna-boy-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/burna-boy-wonderful\/","title":{"rendered":"Burna Boy unveils &#8220;Wonderful&#8221;, first single from upcoming album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shortly after joining South African Master KG for a remix of &#8220;Jerusalema&#8221;, the Nigerian superstar continues his world conquest with this cheerful song. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>On \u201cWonderful\u201d, the afro-fusion boss has definitely turned towards a lighter sound than usual, closer to afropop. Accompanied by backing vocals, the singer encourages his listeners to be productive, claiming for example that he &#8220;hustles like Adebayo Ogunlesi&#8221; (a Nigerian billionaire investment banker). According to a press release, the song is also about &#8220;the wonders of seeing the impact of his music on people&#8217;s lives while he toured the world&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Burna Boy - Wonderful [Official Lyric Video]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SYBWrQumfVg?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Burna Boy &#8211; Wonderful<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The instrumental of the track was produced by Telz, known for his collaborations with singer Prettyboy D-O and recently signed to Burna&#8217;s record label Spaceship Collective. The visuals take up a nostalgic aesthetic of postcards and stamps, adding a certain delicacy to the song. Clearly calibrated for an exponential audience, &#8220;Wonderful&#8221; is the first official single from the African Giant&#8217;s upcoming album, which should be entitled &#8220;Twice as Tall&#8221;.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after joining South African Master KG for a remix of &#8220;Jerusalema&#8221;, the Nigerian superstar continues his world conquest with this cheerful song. On \u201cWonderful\u201d, the afro-fusion boss has definitely turned towards a lighter sound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":54588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[20359,23443,4568],"location":[8172],"yst_prominent_words":[8541,8403,13606,9172,8996,8932,8407,8933,8401,8402,8404,11238,8400,9202,8543,8449,16492,11493],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54591"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=54591"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=54591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}