Shenseea is done pretending.
During an appearance on the No NDA podcast with host Rushane Campbell, the singer addressed a revealing lyric: “29 years under the sun / A man never yet make me c*m.”
Asked about the line, Shenseea, born Chinsea Linda Lee, said it reflected her experience—and something she had struggled to acknowledge.
“Honestly, it was hard for me to admit that. But, it was so necessary because all my life, ever since me start — which is NOT young, by the way — I’ve been faking it,” she said.
As she got older, she began questioning whom that performance was serving.
“The older me get, I’m like, ‘Wait, it still hasn’t happened. But it’s not hurting them, it’s hurting me, ’cause I’m lying. And me need if figure it out,’” she said.
Shenseea said she has since made progress, describing how she figured out how to reach orgasm during her most recent intimate situation. She also spoke about the difficulty of letting her guard down.
“I just feel like there’s so much trauma built up in my head ever since I was younger. It’s so hard to open up fully,” she said.
That struggle runs through the song’s chorus, which asks a partner to “teach me how to be more open” and describes feeling “guarded like a cell.”
The conversation also revisited “Foreplay,” her December 2019 release about preparing a woman for pleasure before intercourse. This time, though, the focus was on her own experience: acknowledging what wasn’t working and finding out what does.