Songfacts®:

• "Let Me Be In Your Arms" is a longing, bittersweet house track about being consumed by feelings for an absent lover. American-Cameroonian singer-songwriter Libianca sings of a lonely Saturday night spent staring in the mirror, unable to stop thinking about a love interest who is miles away.
• Libianca wants to be held physically by her lover. Rather than burying the emotion in elaborate imagery, the chorus says exactly what it means:
  
  Baby, let me be in your arms
  Do you like me? Do you love me?
  
  That directness places the song within a long lineage of soul and R&B writing where emotional force comes from simplicity rather than cleverness. The Jackson 5 established one early blueprint with "I Want You Back" in 1969, reducing heartbreak to a repeated plea for another chance. Toni Braxton pushed the idea even further on "Un-Break My Heart," where the almost painfully plain "Say you'll love me again" carries all the emotional weight. "Let Me Be In Your Arms" works similarly, stripping the feeling down to its bare essentials and placing it inside a warm, pulsing house groove from Sonny Fodera.
• Sonny Fodera and Libianca wrote the song with singer-songwriter Raye and frequent Anne-Marie and Rudimental collaborators Billen Ted. It was co-produced by Fodera and Billen Ted. Raye and Billen Ted had previously collaborated on "Call On Me" in 2021, making this session a natural extension of an existing creative partnership.
  
  The collaboration came together via Libianca's team sending Fodera a demo rather than a traditional studio session. "I got sent the demo by her team and just kind of worked on it. And then got Libianca on the record, and here we are. Just felt like summer, and just perfect, really, for my sets."
  
  Fodera added that he'd long admired her voice and felt she fit the record perfectly.
• Libianca - full name Libianca Kenzonkinboum Fonji - is a Cameroonian-American singer-songwriter. She was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and moved to Bamenda in Cameroon at age 4 before returning to the US at 13. Her upbringing exposed her to gospel, R&B, Afrobeats, and makossa, the Cameroonian dance genre that mixes elements of funk, rumba, and highlife. She first gained major attention competing on season 21 of The Voice in 2021.
  
  Her international breakthrough arrived with "People" in 2022, a deeply personal single that became the first song by a Cameroonian artist to achieve Platinum certification in nine countries, including the UK, US, and Australia. In 2023 she toured with Alicia Keys and earned nominations from both the BRIT Awards and the NAACP Image Awards.
• Fodera debuted "Let Me Be In Your Arms" live during his set at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend 2026 in Sunderland's Herrington Country Park on May 22, 2026, the same day the track premiered on Radio 1's New Music Show.