MUSICAL ENTERTAINERS: THE MORAL AVENGERS IN NIGERIA SOCIETY, BY SEYE KEN

“Did you heard what happen yesterday?”

“What?”

“A man beat up his son to the point of death because the boy called him a nickname.”

“What nickname?”

“Baddo.”

“What is the meaning of that?”

“I guess is one of the nonsense slang the young boy picked from some of these morally-deficient songs circulating in our society. Songs that have turn most of our today youths to civilized thug, a disposition that has halt the moral consciousness in them.”

“But the poor boy should not be blamed now because most of these uncultured songs have so much polluted the air that even a deaf can sing them word for word.”

“So who is to be blamed?”

“The Nigeria music entertainers.”

“How?”

“Nice question. The music industry in Nigeria is believed to be one of the fastest growing industry, but at the same time the moral decadence in Nigeria is also on the rise and this has been greatly linked to disabled moral content contained in our music.”

“In years past music was seen as fundamental and essential tool through which national unity can be fostered and also inculcate undiluted morals into the data base of the evolving youths. Music was also used to challenge, charge and remind the government of the responsibility they need to attend to.”

“I can vividly remember the interesting adventure I had in respect of the kind of music I grew up listening to. I can't forget my dad’s favorite; the commander himself, Ebenezer Obey. I was always fascinated with his rhythm and my dad wasn't scared of listening to this kind of music even in my presence because the content was full proverbs, parables and words of wisdom."

"As I grew up to understand and differentiate between sound and noise, I can't just erase those sweet melody I used to enjoy; the likes of funmi Adams, Evi Edna Ogholi, Funmi aragbaye, Christy Essien Igbokwe, just to mention a few. But evolution came and afro hip pop was born which was pioneered by the likes of remedies, plantation boiz and the rest. Inspite of this new “baby” then, music can still be enjoyed but suddenly moral values in music collapsed. Musical contents (lyrics and video) is now of porn standard.”

“Now, moral decadence has been the most celebrated syndrome in our society and our most cherished norms and values as being redefined as UNCIVILIZED VIRTUES.”

“How do you mean?”

“In the 1990s, our society have this conscious perception that human body should be seen as sacred and must be preserved, but most of our today’s musical videos have counter this conception. Flaunting of six packs is now seen as symbol for sexiness. Male entertainers nowadays have graduated from skin bleaching to lip bleaching.”

“There was a time in Nigerian music industry where content (music and video) was full good message, brilliant concept and creativity but this has long expired. What we have nowadays is display of gangsterism, sex and violence.”

“Thank God ladies are not part of this moral coup.”

“Laugh!!!”

“Why are u laughing?”

“Because these set of Homo sapiens are the main causative organism. Some ladies don’t smell ugly even when they are putting on pants in the name of video vixen. Wearing of pants and bra is no longer an odd thing in today’s music. The act of “go weird and become a celebrity” is one major thing driving our today’s entertainers.”

"The video Vixens are also called selling point. Most of the musical video these days is not complete without their input. Half naked in the name of music promotion and keeping up with international standard of video making is the vogue.”

“Who is setting them up with standard?”

“I believe it is the western indoctrination that has eaten deep into the moral fabrics of our system. Most our female musician, in the act to gain relevance, boobs, burst cleavage, naked laps and other subtle erotic parts of the body are puts on display in their musical videos.”

“As the system got rotten to that extent?”

”Sit down there. Even recently the veteran musician Ras Kimono aired his own opinion on this.”

”In his word “most of the crop of artist we have today are afraid to sing reality, they are all about bum bum and such unnecessary things. They all sing about foolishness and unnecessary things”

“Hmmm!”

“What?”

“I can now read meaning to what you are saying. The younger generation of today spend more time listening to music on television and phone than the time they spend on their studies. And there is no doubt that what they watch and hear will surely have a great deal on them because they tend to replicate the act.”

“You get am.”

“Some studies have even shown a connection between musical content and violent behaviour among adolescents, it was also proven that there is a relationship between the imagery displayed in video and condemnable sexual behaviour.”

“So who do we call to save us from this time bomb?”

“The hope to curb this menace lies in the hands of Nigeria Broadcasting Commission whose main objectives are; setting standards with regard to the contents and quality of material to be broadcast and also regulating ethical standards among all broadcasting stations in Nigeria. These are just few out of the many roles the commission is saddle with. But if these two main character can be upheld it will go a long way in helping our growing and grooving generation.”

"Finally, our so-called entertainers should please help this nation with their musical content, they should see music beyond sound, rhythm and melody. They should use their craft to preach unity and also teach morals so that we can build a healthy, decent, and vices-free society where we can raise our children. Nigeria must be saved from moral assassins and our land must not be turn to second Sodom and Gomoral.”

Seye Ken is a society explorer whose passion for writing is immeasurable.
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