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Odeal swung by the Genius office to break down his hit single “Miami” featuring Leon Thomas, from his album 'The Summer That Saved Me.' On today’s episode of Verified, he spills on how the collab came together without ever meeting in person, repurposing his older tracks, his approach to dating, and much more!

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00:00We live in a time that we're the most closest we've ever been.

00:03Every single day we're on TikTok and we're like, so we're all just living the same life

00:06at this point.

00:07And I feel like reflecting that in the music is the best way for me to just communicate.

00:11You know what I mean?

00:12I might not make that TikTok.

00:13You know what I mean?

00:14But I'm going to make a song that has that, you know what I mean?

00:16That line that resonates and we're like, okay, we're the same, you know what I mean?

00:20I went to Spain to see one of my friends who actually produced on the record.

00:31His name's Harry.

00:32Harry Westlake.

00:33I went to the beach for a while.

00:34He was on the guitar and as I was laying there, I was just thinking about loads of different

00:37things and the chorus of Miami came about, you know?

00:39When the song was done, I didn't think to have anyone else on it.

00:43And then my A&R, AB, he was like, yo, I feel like we should send this to Leon.

00:46And I was like, yo, let's do it.

00:49Me and Leon would keep in touch online.

00:51But we hadn't met.

00:52We sent over the record and after that I was flying around and going different places and

00:57whatnot.

00:58And it wasn't until I got to Dubai, I got the verse back and it was incredible.

01:02It was definitely meant to be.

01:11It's so funny because if my social media don't tell you how I am, my music will.

01:15I've got a song called Coffee and it's talking about not being able to read signs.

01:19It reminds me of me liking girls shooting their shots.

01:21And in Miami, it's a different approach.

01:23It's like, she's kind of shy with it, but I like it.

01:25You know what I mean?

01:26I'm intrigued.

01:27It's kind of like the duality of how I be sometimes.

01:28When you're getting to know someone or when you want to, you know, take something further

01:39very quickly, there's like too much room for assumption if there's no friendship.

01:42You know what I mean?

01:43And that's where the, you know, the overthinking starts and dah, dah, dah.

01:45But with your friend, you kind of just know what your friend's like, you know, and what

01:48they're doing and how they do it and why they do it.

01:50You know what I mean?

01:51So you give them a bit of grace.

01:52You know what I mean?

01:53Where there's no, there's no room for that.

01:54These days when things are just moving like this, it's like, yeah, I'm going to cut you

01:57off and I'm going to cut you off.

01:58That's why I think it's important to take your time with, you know, getting to know people.

02:01The chorus is actually taken from an old song of mine, Womanizer 2.

02:18So it's the outro of that.

02:19It was really like a melody that I had and then I just further developed it in this record.

02:24There's no rules in this and I just felt like it was needed for this song.

02:31You want to heal, you got to feel quicker.

02:35In the project, The Summer That Saved Me, which this song is the introduction to, it's

02:40really about like unlearning bad habits, learning new habits, you know what I mean?

02:45Just going through life, growing.

02:46And I feel like during the summer, a lot of the time we kind of spend it like drinking

02:50or just, you know, like just out of our minds sometimes, you know what I mean?

02:54And it's to kind of run away from something.

02:56By the end of it, we come back to it and we still have to deal with it.

02:58For the first summer, I had to kind of like cut down on certain things like drinking and

03:02whatnot just to protect my voice anyway.

03:04And in that, I kind of had to find myself just feeling things, like experiencing things

03:08and letting those feelings, just sitting with those feelings and letting them go back.

03:13I felt like the song had to have like a little, you know, therapy session for, you know, us.

03:28We had a private party, you and your girls in my apartment.

03:34See that one person on your IG that you're like, you know what, I like this, but we might

03:38never see each other.

03:39I'ma just let you be.

03:40I'ma not disturb you.

03:41Let me let you do your thing.

03:43So in that line, I'm kind of just setting the scene and letting it be known that, yeah,

03:46do you know what, I actually know you from IG.

03:49It just makes sense.

03:50It's like everyone can look at each other in the club or just be like, yeah, like I felt that before.

03:58So the line in the beginning of the song where it was like, you bless the worst days, purpose

04:05what you bring.

04:06You couldn't get there until the relationship actually progressed.

04:11This wasn't just a quick situation.

04:13This is something that grew up at the time.

04:15We stayed friends in Miami till we made love in Argentina.

04:18In order for it to get to that stage, loads of things happened in the middle, do you know

04:22what I mean?

04:23I found solace in this.

04:24I found peace in this.

04:25Even when I'm moving around, there's been a lot of stuff going on.

04:28This person actually brought me a bit of, you know, peace, you know, a relationship

04:31going from A to B.

04:34I go by the name of Odile.

04:36I grew up in London, Nigeria.

04:39Both my parents Nigerian.

04:41Everything Nigerian.

04:47I got the books, it's Nigerian.

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