Alive is a single from Jorja Smith featuring Wizkid, released July 2, 2026 under FAMM. Running 3 minutes 27 seconds and classified as Dance on Apple Music, it is the lead single from What Are The Odds — Jorja Smith's third studio album, due August 21, 2026, the same night she co-headlines London's All Points East at Victoria Park alongside Tems. Produced by P2J — who also handled the entirety of her 2023 album falling or flying — the record was written and recorded in London by all three collaborators together in the same session, which Jorja Smith described directly: "Making this with P2J and WizKid felt really easy. We wrote and recorded it together in London. I think we captured that feeling when you're at the beginning of something with someone and everything feels exciting. I've always loved WizKid's music and the way he's opened so many doors for Afrobeats around the world, so it feels really special and a big honor to have a song with him."
What Are The Odds is Jorja Smith's third studio album and contains 12 tracks, with Wizkid as the only guest alongside grime artist Devlin. The album blends UK garage, grime and house — including funky house and Afro house — in a collaboration with P2J that Smith described as arriving naturally without a big plan, the sound growing from experimentation. Alive sits at the album's emotional core: uplifting in production, with lyrics Smith admits can be a bit sad at times, capturing the contradictions of early romantic excitement against an undercurrent of uncertainty — the feeling of something beginning and not yet knowing if it will hold. The collaboration with Wizkid follows Jorja Smith's earlier African music connections through her 2019 Be Honest single with Burna Boy, extending her relationship with Nigerian artists across two different eras of the genre's global expansion.
Rating: 8.5/10.
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