You Got Me Twisted: How Blues and Country Built Someje's Neo Soul
A Canadian Singer of Nigerian Heritage Folds Blues, Country and Folk Into Neo Soul
Someje released You Got Me Twisted on 3 July 2026, a neo soul single built on blues, country and folk. The singer-songwriter, from Edmonton, Canada, is of Nigerian heritage. She is working a lineage that Black artists have spent the last three years reclaiming in public. In it, soul, the blues and country turn out to be relatives.
Someje’s You Got Me Twisted sits in the playlist below, among the neo soul and R&B this desk follows, and the Someje profile holds the full coverage history. The single reached BlackSounds.News through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Listen first, then read on for the lineage behind it.
Black Artists Have Been Reclaiming Country and Folk, and You Got Me Twisted Joins That Line
The clearest sign came from an old record. First, in July 2023, Luke Combs took his cover of Fast Car to number one on the country airplay chart. Later that year, Tracy Chapman, who released the song in 1988, became the first Black woman to win a Country Music Association award, taking Song of the Year. A folk-soul song by a Black songwriter had been a country song all along, and the chart caught up.
Then came Beyoncé. Cowboy Carter reimagined country and Americana through their Black roots, and at the Grammys in February 2025 it won Album of the Year. Beyoncé also became the first Black artist to win Best Country Album, with blues, soul and folk built into the record by design.
Still, none of this history is new. The blues fed soul and country alike, so both carried more of it than their marketing ever admitted. What has changed is how openly artists now claim the family resemblance.
So the single arrives in the middle of that conversation. Someje describes it as a blend of blues, soul, country and folk, carried by her voice. It comes at the shared family from the soul side. That is where neo soul has stood since the 1990s, when it went back to older records to find its own sound.
Where Someje Fits, a Canadian Singer Who Grew Up on Jazz, Gospel and Soul
Someje’s own older records were instrumental jazz, soul and the hymns of gospel, the music she grew up on, and those influences still run through her writing. Her first release was a holiday single, It Is Time for Christmas, in December 2018. Twisted followed in July 2024, filed as blues, and then Your Cover came out in June 2025. She also wrote and composed I Can Do Anything, a children’s song, for Sing It Edmonton, a public library project.
The new single’s title also looks back, because Twisted came out almost exactly two years earlier. The new record carries the same word into a soul setting, and this time Apple Music lists it under R&B and soul.
Someje, credited as Chisomeje Okoedion, wrote the words and music. After that, Enoch Attey mixed the track and Brad Smith mastered it. Her voice sits at the centre of the record, low and full-bodied, and it is what holds those styles together.
Away from the record, Someje builds community. At the African Music Academy of Canada she teaches, and she is a founding member of Black Music Artists Connect. In addition, Women in Music Canada, Alberta Music and the Edmonton Arts Council all count her as a member. On stage, she has opened for Melafrique, the Afro-fusion band that toured with the Juno Award-winning Jully Black. The Diaspora Creative Awards nominated her for Best New Artist, and in 2026 she earned a place among Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch.
Asa Is the Closest Neighbour to You Got Me Twisted
Among living artists, Asa sits nearest to this record. Born in Paris to Nigerian parents and raised in Lagos, she built her music from her father’s record collection, with Fela Kuti and King Sunny Adé next to Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and Nina Simone. She treats soul, folk and the blues as one inheritance, and Someje’s Nigerian roots and mix of styles sit in the same place. Listeners who came to soul through her records will also find familiar ground here.
So who is it for? Anyone who heard Fast Car top the country chart and understood why. Anyone who followed Cowboy Carter back to the blues. And neo soul listeners who like the older roots left showing. Put the single beside those records and the lineage is the point: soul, the blues and country, still one family.
BlackSounds.News’s curator team: “We added this one to our Contemporary R&B, Neo Soul, Alt R&B playlist because it widens that mix: neo soul with the blues and country still showing. For anyone new to Someje, it is the place to start.”
Stream the single on Spotify and Apple Music. Follow Someje on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook, and find her bookings and press kit on her official website.
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