Look What You’ve Done, a song in Greatman Takit’s newly released fourth EP, Worship SZN, is equally pliable to multiple interpretations. “What would I do without your love? / I feel the warmth of your arms around me,” Takit sings, his baritone pocketed in a production that sets the tone for a breezy praise-and-worship session.
Of course, if you have listened to the EP up to this point, then you know that the referent of Takit’s evocations is the Christian God, or “Yahweh” as the artist calls him elsewhere. But, say, you had no prior background knowledge of the EP, no one would blame you for thinking the song is in the service of either an earthly love or lover. The song’s earthliness epitomises how Takit negotiates his Christian faith: for him, God is not an abstraction, but rather a palpably human presence. God is as real to him as an earthly lover is—with “arms” and “warmth”—a point stressed across the EP’s eight songs.
Greatman Ademola Takit grew up in Abuja, with his parents and three brothers. That he makes Gospel music is possibly a consequence of the kind of nurture he received: his father is a pastor, and his mother a church minister, suggesting an upbringing heavily premised on Christian doctrine.
