A couple of days ago, i was in the living room with my mom watching Sound City and for the 15 minutes before i changed to another channel, i was utterly embarrassed to be watching the filth that we now call entertainment. Music videos with girls in various degrees of UnCloth, guys singing about money, crime, wanton sex and general youthful waste, profane languages flying about uncut and uncensored....where have our morals and values flown to? How did it get this bad?

Looking back, i remember how Femi Kuti's "BANG BANG BANG" was banned from getting airplay on radios and TV just for mentioning sensual parts of the female anatomy. He went ahead to receive global acclaim but here in Nigeria, we all cried blue-murder. Many groups came out to voice out their concerns about the lyrics and bla bla bla...the matter died down and life went on.

Fast forward couple of years and what do we have? Artists who claim to want to reach out to the man on the street but flaunt their wealth(?) and their "swagger" on tv and sing songs with little or no meaningful content. Mass Media has successfully misdirected redirected our attention from the quality of the music we listen to, promoting mediocres and quick money makers and stifling the genres that produce good music. Everyone now wants to produce a "club banger", party tracks that people can dance to without giving a thought to want the singers are saying and the club culture is here to stay. Everyone seem so eager to dance on friday at clubs as though it's a ritual that will wash their problems away. I oft wish for their sakes that it was possible

The main reason why i'm writing this is because of what i saw that day and what has become an acceptable trend. I mean, sure if you wanna a song about how many women you've slept with or how tall your money stacks are, it's okay....it's a free world. But when what you do begins to negatively influence your immediate society, then there has to be ways to check that freedom. The children and youth of today mindlessly follow these ideas of loose morals and violence that they see online and on tv and accept them as norm. It's okay to objectify a lady and treat her like trash...as long as it's not your sister. It's okay for a lady to have multiple sex partners but she wants to shield her brother from it. It's ok for you to indulge and yell about not being judged but you're quickest to judge the moment an opportunity arises. It's okay to post your nudes online just to find out how many likes and retweets you get. Everything is right, individuality is always supreme. Soon, we'll switch on our tubes one day to scenes from a soft porn flick and it'll be Okay. I digressed abit.

Now because of mass media and fame and celebrity we've endangered both our generation and the next. Our morals and inhibitions have gone out the window. What happened to good upbringing and culture and traditions and integrity and lessons of yester-years. Are we going to mortgage them all because we a.) want to find our own identity within the brand called proudly Nigeria (which isn't working, #justsoyouknow)? or b.) need to catch up with the ever advancing western-culture?

THIS HAS TO STOP.

To check this sort of trend, normally a committee or board has to be set up and i want to believe that it's already been set up. But where are they? They were unusually too eager to trump Femi Kuti but now (ahem, thanks to a lot of brown paperbags changing hands, ahem) they've all gone silent. And if we don't arise to our responsibilities as grown ups, then our actions would have more far-reaching consequences....like, you know, endangering the next five generations

Ponder and respond

Tune away. Simple

I feel you...u av said it all. Youths now believe der is quick money so they want to 'hammer' at all costs. (Especially through nagative means) I wonder why upcoming musicians these days must borrow to hire unclad girls and buy champagne b4 de shoot a video...must de copy? Where is d creativity dt is of African origin...?

BAN TONTO DIKE AND ALL THIS WILL STOP.. But i ll prefer if they export her to HADES

eninaija: I feel you...u av said it all. Youths now believe der is quick money so they want to 'hammer' at all costs. (Especially through nagative means) I wonder why upcoming musicians these days must borrow to hire unclad girls and buy champagne b4 de shoot a video...must de copy? Where is d creativity dt is of African origin...?

madam sorry o.. abeg wetin b nagative means?

Mynd_44: Tune away. Simple

Sorry, but how is this a solution?