Addiction by Veola

Addiction by Veola

Addiction by Veola

Veola opens Songs of Veola with Addiction and the EP starts in a confessional. Track 1. Worldwide. 3 July 2026. After Love In The Club ended with Only Jah, Veola begins where Quamina MP left off — but she’s not praying for salvation. She’s naming the sin.

Addiction is Veola calling herself out. The beat is stripped. Alt-R&B drums that tap like a heartbeat. A piano loop that sounds like 4AM thoughts. Strings that swell like guilt. Bass that sits low, like something heavy in your chest. No bounce. No highlife. Just air. If Only Jah was the morning after, Addiction is why the night happened.

This is Veola solo, and she sounds bare. No E tag, but the honesty is explicit anyway. Addiction isn’t about drugs. It’s about a person. A pattern. The same one Quamina MP described in Similar, but from the other side. She sings about craving what hurts. About knowing better and choosing worse. About love that feels like withdrawal.

No features here. The record is a diary entry. Veola builds it like the moment you admit it to yourself first. Verse one is denial. Verse two is relapse. The chorus is surrender: “I know you’re bad for me, but I need you like addiction.” She’s not asking you to judge her. She’s telling you this is what it is.

In 2026, Veola used Addiction to open Songs of Veola with truth, not fantasy. Love In The Club started with Oshe — the entrance. Songs of Veola starts with Addiction — the reason you keep going back. This is for the aux when you’re alone with your thoughts. For the nights when you need music that sounds like a secret you finally say out loud.

Production-wise, Addiction is intimate. The mix is close. You hear breath. You hear the room. Veola’s vocals are front and center — no reverb hiding her. The piano is slightly detuned, like something’s off. At 1:08 the drums drop out and it’s just her voice and a single cello note. She whispers “I can’t stop.” Then the beat comes back softer, like it’s scared to interrupt her. That’s the whole EP in one moment.

Lyrically, Addiction tackles three things: self-awareness, desire, and shame. She calls the person her “favorite mistake.” She says she’s prayed about it and still chose it. She admits she likes the pain because numb feels worse. The writing is surgical. No metaphors to hide behind. Lines like “you’re the scar I keep picking” and “I choose you over peace” will gut you. This isn’t love song energy. This is addiction energy.

The songwriting choice is deliberate. Track 1 of Songs of Veola could have been light. Could have been angelic. Veola chooses dark. She chooses heavy. She tells you up front: this EP is not escape. It’s exposure. If the cover is clouds and butterflies, Addiction is the storm that made her float. You don’t get to the boat in the sky without drowning first.

This track sets the tone for the EP. Quamina MP used 15 tracks to avoid saying this. Veola says it in Track 1. Love In The Club was about running. Songs of Veola is about sitting still with what’s chasing you. Addiction makes you understand every bad decision on Quamina MP’s album, because Veola is the reason those decisions get made.

If you want Ghanaian R&B that sounds like SZA’s SOS but more spiritual, Veola in her most vulnerable form, and Addiction energy to start Songs of Veola with truth — this is it. This is the track that plays when you text him “I’m done” and know you’re lying. Bigxmotion will keep you updated bar by bar.