Make Believe

Album: released as a single (2025)
Charted: 58
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Songfacts®:

  • "Make Believe" is a collaborative house track between UK producer Luke Dean and London vocalist/producer Omar+, released on August 15, 2025. The collaboration fuses Luke Dean's '90s Chicago house-inspired production style with Omar+'s distinctive R&B-influenced vocals.
  • Omar+ drapes lyrics that are equal parts sensual and wistful, namechecking "kisses on my body" and evoking "summer in 2016." The tension of the track lies in its title: is the intimacy he's describing real, or just a mirage of memory and longing?
  • This isn't Omar+'s first foray into house crossovers. He previously linked up with Josh Baker on "Back It Up," while Luke Dean has his own pedigree in the scene, co-producing the UK Top 20 single "Can't Decide" with Max Dean and Locky.

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