Tamia has released a new ballad called Forever and a Day, her first new music since the 2018 album Passion Like Fire. Eight years is a long gap for a singer whose audience never really went anywhere.
The song is produced by Louis York and built as a straight ballad, with a lyric about staying locked in someone's arms and wanting the feeling to hold without changing. It is the register she has worked in for most of her career rather than an attempt at reinvention.
The video is a performance clip rather than a narrative one, cut with footage from tour stops around the world and carrying a cameo from her husband, the NBA Hall of Famer Grant Hill. Building the visual out of her own live footage puts the emphasis on the voice and the audience rather than a concept.
What has not been said is whether this is a standalone release or the first of a run. No album has been confirmed, and That Grape Juice, which posted the video, noted that the question is open either way.
For an rnb-soul singer of her standing, returning with a ballad rather than an uptempo single is a statement about what she thinks the audience wants back. Whether Forever and a Day turns into a full record will show up on the release calendar if a date follows.
The facts
- Forever and a Day is Tamia's first new music since 2018's Passion Like Fire.
- The ballad is produced by Louis York.
- The performance video features a cameo from her husband Grant Hill.
- The clip also carries footage from tour stops around the world.
- No album has been confirmed for the release.
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