Will Smith’s Valentine’s Day Gift Is a New Song, ‘First Love’

Track features Spanish singer India Martínez and Polish guitarist Marcin

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Will SmithYasmine Kateb

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Will Smith has released a new song, “First Love,” featuring Spanish singer India Martínez and Polish guitarist Marcin.

The globe-trotting track opens with some stunning flamenco finger-picking from Marcin and Martínez’s booming vocals. Once the beat settles in, Smith takes over, delivering verses that yearn for that explosion of love and affection (even if sometimes there’s a little pain involved). “Every heart will be broken,” he raps, “But what do we do with the pieces/We’ve got a natural affinity/Natural energy, matching infinity.”

“First Love” was produced by OmArr, LastNght, and Kyle Townsend. Smith, Martínez, and Marcin will perform the track live on TV for the first time Feb. 20 at the Premio Lo Nuestro Awards in Miami.

“First Love” is also the latest song Smith has shared from his upcoming album, Based on a True Story, which is set to arrive in March (an exact release date hasn’t been revealed yet). The song follows ”Beautiful Scars,” with Big Sean, which dropped back in January and came with a video that channeled The Matrix (a film Smith almost starred in back in the day, before declining the role as Neo, which went to Keanu Reeves).

 

Other Based on a True Story singles have included “You Can Make It” with Fridayy and Sunday Service Choir, “Tantrum” with Joyner Lucas, and “Work of Art,” a father-son collaboration with Jaden.

 

Based on a True Story will mark Smith’s full return to music after 20 years. His last solo album, Lost and Found, was released in 2005.