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Queen Naija Gives Inside Look At How She Creates Her R&B Hits

<p>Roommates&comma; some fans would jump at the opportunity to be a fly on the wall while their favorite artist is cooking up new music&excl; On Thursday&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;queen-naija-claps-back-after-fans-suggest-she-shows-favoritism-to-her-younger-son-over-the-way-she-dresses-him&sol;">Queen Naija gifted<&sol;a> her fans that chance via a series of posts to her Instagram Story&period; The R&amp&semi;B singer shared screen-recordings of an audio clip that lets fans into her songwriting process&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the first clip posted&comma; Queen is heard playing around with her voice before making a quick comment to someone else&period; The audio isn&&num;8217&semi;t the best quality&comma; but Queen&&num;8217&semi;s soothing voice pushes through singing about cheating and being a &&num;8220&semi;good friend&&num;8221&semi; to her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;This literally raw footage of my song writing process&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Queen Naija wrote in bold&comma; white letters&period; &&num;8220&semi;I just keep looping a melody over and over again and make up cadences&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The featured audio recording is labeled &&num;8220&semi;Pizza Hut&&num;8221&semi; and has a runtime of three minutes and forty-three seconds&period; It appears that it was recorded earlier this year on June 8&comma; to be exact&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the second clip&comma; Queen is still heard singing the word &&num;8220&semi;cheating&&num;8221&semi; and the phrase &&num;8220&semi;friend to me&period;&&num;8221&semi; In some parts&comma; the audio is inaudible&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s clearly all part of her songwriting process&period; Queen also teases fans about a &&num;8220&semi;revisit&&num;8221&semi; to the &&num;8220&semi;little Pizza Hut clip&&num;8221&semi; in more white text added to the Instagram Story post&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By the third clip&comma; Queen admits in written text that she &&num;8220&semi;ain&&num;8217&semi;t really making sense&comma;&&num;8221&semi; but confesses that she loves &&num;8220&semi;the melody&period;&&num;8221&semi; The declaration aligns with what her voice is giving in the clips&excl; Her volume rises a little&comma; almost as if she&&num;8217&semi;s gaining excitement&comma; towards the very end of the insider preview&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her last commentary is a poll asking fans whether she should turn &&num;8220&semi;Pizza Hut&&num;8221&semi; into a song&period; She gave fans the options of &&num;8220&semi;YESSS QUEEN&&num;8221&semi; or &&num;8220&semi;EHHH&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Check out her process here&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CTC2aGOlsty&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;embed&&num;038&semi;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;loading" data-instgrm-version&equals;"14" style&equals;" background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; max-width&colon;658px&semi; min-width&colon;326px&semi; 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