Light My Fire (Sean Paul song)

He wrote "Light My Fire" with Shenseea, Saul Alexander "AC" Castillo Vasquez, Gamal Kosh Lewis, Allan Peter Grigg, Rosina Russell, and Emily Warren.

In January 2021, Sean Paul announced that he would be releasing two separate studio albums that year, entitled Live N Livin and Scorcher.

[2] The first news of Paul collaborating with American singer Gwen Stefani and Jamaican dancehall artist Shenseea came later that month, along with the official release date for Scorcha.

[3] According to Paul, he had long admired Stefani's career and working on "Light My Fire" collaboratively was a "dream come true" for him.

[4] She had incorporated reggae and dancehall music into her earlier career, and worked with artists such as Marion Hall and Damian Marley.

[5] "Light My Fire" was written by Paul, Shenseea, Saul Alexander "AC" Castillo Vasquez, Gamal Kosh Lewis, Allan Peter Grigg, Rosina Russell, and Emily Warren, and it was produced by AC, Grigg, and Paul's brother, Jason Jigzag Henriques.

[8] Nicholas Nam from Dancehall Magazine called "Light My Fire" a "charming clam" amidst the album's other songs, and felt that the "contrasting styles of the three singers [actually] blend together seamlessly".

[13] However, NME's Kyann-Sian Williams thought Stefani's vocal performance on "Light My Fire" was inferior to her older "reggae-fusion" songs, such as No Doubt's "Underneath It All" (2001).

[4] The video itself was directed by Quinn Wilson, according to its press release, and depicts a group of partygoers and utilizes an orange hue filter.

[5] Stefani is adorned in a "Jamaican-inspired outfit", according to Rolling Stone's Tomás Mier, who felt it complimented the Caribbean vibe from Shenseea.

[18] Some Twitter users commented negatively about Stefani's dreadlocks hairstyle and Jamaican flag-inspired outfit, and accused her of exhibiting cultural appropriation.