Checking Onyeka owenu
Fela Kuti
Ebenezer Obey
And co...
To
Davido 30billion
Terry G run mad
Dorobuchi

And co....

What are the effects on our society?

Everything has been watered down.. no value ... All we see are the seminude girls... Alcohol..drugs... praising fraud... And so on and so forth

jamarifox:
its everywhere. I miss the days of Cèline Dion, Whitney huston

Bob Marley... Luther vandross.. Babyface... Swv... Even Kollignton Ayinla

have you listened to dbanj's latest song?

Today it's banana fall on you... Knack apako.... Lil kesh and his rubbish... Burna boy and his nothingness...

jamarifox:
its everywhere. I miss the days of Cèline Dion, Whitney huston

we still have the likes of ed sheeran, sia e.t.c but here in naija...

Epositive:
have you listened to dbanj's latest song?

Google Dbanj... As empty as nothing....as useless, worthless, meaningless...as nix

Epositive:


we still have the likes of ed sheeran, sia e.t.c but here in naija...

Please can you make a list of such meaningful musicians still available for us?

praxisnetworks:

Google Dbanj... As empty as nothing....as useless, worthless, meaningless...as nix

as worthless as five naira, more like a leaking pocket ,very useless....


even rappers are not helping matter

praxisnetworks:

Please can you make a list of such meaningful musicians still available for us?

as in nigerian artistes?

Lng live celine dion n co.. Pipo still dy play dia song...even tho it has been lng.. Na only few still dy play AYE, SEKEEM etc al dix song wey no make sense.. En go jhux cum n go



Nansense

Epositive:
as in nigerian artistes?

Yes

julietkcee:
Lng live celine dion n co.. Pipo still dy play dia song...even tho it has been lng.. Na only few still dy play AYE, SEKEEM etc al dix song wey no make sense.. En go jhux cum n go



Nansense

Not forgetting that timeless collabo and classic between onyeka and Sunny Ade.... "Wait for me" or something like that

praxisnetworks:

Yes

it's as difficult as rearing fishes in a desert .... still on still, i gat some great nigerian artistes on my playlist, talk of timi dakolo, praiz(nigga don dey flop), darey art(pray for me), simi, phenom to mention a few

Epositive:


it's as difficult as rearing fishes in a desert .... still on still, i gat some great nigerian artistes on my playlist, talk of timi dakolo, praiz(nigga don dey flop), darey art(pray for me), simi, phenom to mention a few

Darey is something else... Extremely talented and creative... very different.

Asa, Timi dakolo, beautiful Nubia amongst a few.... are the only sane musicians we have left...


END TIME MUSICIANS... EVERY WHERE!!!!

Most Nigerian musicians now endeavor to produce sounds and lyrics that are appealing to the majority of the society. The intelligent few who still seek to get knowledge,inspiration or a form of comfort out of music are mostly suppressed by the lovers of these obscene and meaningless songs.Hence the 30billion, banana fall on you, etc.
I suggest that passionate lovers of meaningful music should seek out foreign artists who still create beautiful sounds and soul healing lyrics.
p.s, I fvcking love Yanni!

ikeepitreal:
Most Nigerian musicians now endeavor to produce sounds and lyrics that are appealing to the majority of the society. The intelligent few who still seek to get knowledge,inspiration or a form of comfort out of music are mostly suppressed by the lovers of these obscene and meaningless songs.Hence the 30billion, banana fall on you, etc.
I suggest that passionate lovers of meaningful music should seek out foreign artists who still create beautiful sounds and soul healing lyrics.
p.s, I fvcking love Yanni!

Correct. Lalasticlala

Epositive:


we still have the likes of ed sheeran, sia e.t.c but here in naija...

Here in Nigeria, you still have Timi Dakolo, Bez, Omawunmi, Cobhams...Asa, Darey... even Banky get sense small
But do Nigerians patronise them?
Do they even call them for shows and multiple endorsement deals?

Praiz started off 'good', but changed genre along the line.
Harrysong also started off good, now he's singing Samankwe.

One person blew by singing meaningless lyrics, others had to change pattern.

jhudit:

Here in Nigeria, you still have Timi Dakolo, Bez, Omawunmi, Cobhams...Asa, Darey... even Banky get sense small
But do Nigerians patronise them?
Do they even call them for shows and multiple endorsement deals?

Praiz started off 'good', but changed genre along the line.
Harrysong also started off good, now he's singing Samankwe.

One person blew by singing meaningless lyrics, others had to change pattern.

Remove omawunmi from the list

praxisnetworks:


Remove omawunmi from the list

Lollzz. Why naw? She done change?

jhudit:

Lollzz. Why naw? She done change?

She acts like she's mannerless

I think Asa is also nice
2face is trying sha
D rest are nothing 2 write home about

It's not just music. Not just Naija music. It's a systemic cultural deterioration.

Since the coming of the smart gadgets (phone, pad, etc) human intelligence is being willingly offloaded into these tiny devices. People don't care to be creative or cognitive anymore. Everything is being unlearned: proper speech, spelling, reasoning, so that the gadgets can be optimally employed. Soon they'll remember our own names for us.

It's okay to be dumb these days. Everyone is only as smart as their phone's efficiency, anyway. If your internet service provider is slow you're bound to stammer.

Because we don't need to carry the important stuff in our heads anymore, some of us are so criminally empty that we should just stay silent. But no, we must open our mouths and spew the trash that is left, for public consumption.

Trash celebrated on reality television. Forty year old women mimicking the empty, annoying speech patterns of brain damaged teenage girls. Obsession with body parts and money and sex. It's all superficial now. Grunge humans living a grunge culture.

Lil kesh is worse.

Tahrah:
Lil kesh is worse.

Exactly my thoughts sis. Op, ask Lil kesh.
Lyrically e nor well.

julietkcee:
Lng live celine dion n co.. Pipo still dy play dia song...even tho it has been lng.. Na only few still dy play AYE, SEKEEM etc al dix song wey no make sense.. En go jhux cum n go



Nansense

i still play celine dion,westlife till now.even don williams sef .very few naija music make sense now although the old skool ones make sense.

lefulefu:

i still play celine dion,westlife till now.even don williams sef .very few naija music make sense now although the old skool ones make sense.

I ave few Nigerian songs on my playlist... I think 3 or 4
Nigerian songs nowadays is just about beat not lyrics and most of us like it dat way...

I once asked my sister to listen to d lyrics of a particular Nigerian song, she said she doesnt care wat the musician is sayin.. that it is Beat dat is d koko of a song , who cares about lyrics anymore

praxisnetworks:

Not forgetting that timeless collabo and classic between onyeka and Sunny Ade.... "Wait for me" or something like that

if u love me u go wait for me

praxisnetworks:
Checking Onyeka owenu
Fela Kuti
Ebenezer Obey
And co...
To
Davido 30billion
Terry G run mad
Dorobuchi

And co....

What are the effects on our society?

Ask them lazy artists and their noise-making prooducers and they'll both tell you "commercial lo n'ja wo".

MsRoe:
It's not just music. Not just Naija music. It's a systemic cultural deterioration.

Since the coming of the smart gadgets (phone, pad, etc) human intelligence is being willingly offloaded into these tiny devices. People don't care to be creative or cognitive anymore. Everything is being unlearned: proper speech, spelling, reasoning, so that the gadgets can be optimally employed. Soon they'll remember our own names for us.

It's okay to be dumb these days. Everyone is only as smart as their phone's efficiency, anyway. If your internet service provider is slow you're bound to stammer.

Because we don't need to carry the important stuff in our heads anymore, some of us are so criminally empty that we should just stay silent. But no, we must open our mouths and spew the trash that is left, for public consumption.

Trash celebrated on reality television. Forty year old women mimicking the empty, annoying speech patterns of brain damaged teenage girls. Obsession with body parts and money and sex. It's all superficial now. Grunge humans living a grunge culture.

Mmn! Well said...but resting all the blames on gadgets (and technology), as Isaac Asimov foretold would dominate our lives, overrule our existence, dictate our intentions and eventually becoming enslaved by them - our creation, doesn't tantamount to a reason as to why the Nigeria music domain is in a 'sorry state'.

As much as I agree with the points you made, you however implied the distortions seen in the entertainment world is a global thing to which I disagree kindly, not just because the question was posed in regards to the music industry in Nigeria but also because you overlooked the determining overall factor which is the root cause.

Nigerians are even more terrible at immitating the vilest part of anything foreignly immitable. The Jews still remain the domineering power controlling and directing the entertainment industries of the western world, from Hollywood to pornography and all kinds of show-biz where the reality shows spuns from, they never came up with BET to express love for the negroe race but to capitalize upon the exploitation of mass viewership from the black populace by steady supply of appealing contents.

Okay, maybe I'm just ranting off-point, what I'm trying to say is - with the introductory emphasis you briefed on how 'over-dependency on gadgetery' is disabling people's intellect and rendering their creative output 'unoriginal' and 'bland' I'll like to say not only is it only peculiar to us alone but also do such nature of arguments provide leeway to fanatics to capitalize on, by drawing conclusion as interpreted based on their religious doctrines such as, that it's all part of the anti-Christ agenda, '666', 'mark of the beast' 'NWO' bla bla bla baphomet/megido masterplan to claim all gadget-owing souls kinda trash talks.

Nigerian music/film industry is so hogwashed the way it is because there is no working standard nor genuine cultural impact, why should the movers of the Nigeria entertainment so-accepted industry see to always capture what is originally foreign, imports it and revamps it in a way that bears effect on the mindset of the 'take-whatever-we -dish-at-you' audience who are mostly young, while they reap in profits, those are the folks to direct the blames to (not gadgets), from the kitsche musicals and bland musical videos to silly realityTV shows like BigBrotherNigeria. Bleak is the description of the future that awaits the upcoming unborns.