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grandstar:
Burnaboy sings Afrobeat. The rest largely sing Afropop. I don't know why they call it Afrobeat.

Pop music is more about having fun and dancing. They usually sing about love.

Sing about sex.

Honest,I don't know what that burna wants to achieve with this!


The guy has ended up setting Afrobeats backwards by 50years with this speech!

Reggae has more substance.

Hmm.. he is making a mistake. He should not have said that.

Burna Boy is tapping into a strategy in which you make controversial statements so as to call for attention to yourself.

It works all the time.

Today's music is trash globally. The 90's and early 2000's had the best times when it comes to music.

Burna dn cast everything… but he started from there na

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marlow1962:
Nigerian musicians and rubbish wack songs are 5&6.
Davido sings rubbish
Burnaboy sings rubbish
Wizkid sings rubbish
Aseka abi wertin be him name sings rubbish
Your favorite Nigerian musician songs rubbish.

Wack lyrics with no meaning. It is not their fault, Nigerians as a whole love rubbish so much, that's why the government is dishing out rubbish to them and yet they are comfortable.

Fela is the only and last Nigerian musician with meaningful songs and lyrics, the rest are just bunch of repeat rubbish.

But millions of ppl still stream and download their songs.

Mayb the world loves 'rubbish'

He is correct.
Since he's not talking about Fela or Lagbaja or Sunny Ade kind of Afrobeat.
He's referring to his contemporaries today, and he should have clarified that. His music too is not exempt from his comments anyway.

Coming out of the mouth of someone that 85percent of his songs are samples

Winner90:
read and understand my comment. Firstly, no relationship between the style of contemporary songs labelled afrobeat and fela's style. Secondly, Fela was a popular personality mainly because he founded a genre notably for a unique combination of certain instruments. But non of fela's songs themselves have global appeal, same with sunny ade. Remind me Angelique kidjo's pidgin song that is a worldwide hit. It is better to sing in your language and English like kidjo than in pidgin.
Bob Marley despite being a raggae artiste, had global hits like "one love" because it was creatively written in English.

Fela's music is crappy, noisy bullsht. Mind you, I said music, MUSIC. Please don't comment if you don't know what that is.

This guy is an idiot

He just insulted his own people in the international stage

The guy is basically trying to rubbish the efforts of his countrymen and women

You'll never hear Koreans say this about kpop even tho it's usually rubbish.

But a Nigerian will always look for ways to denigrate and block road for others once they attain certain international status


Somebody should remind the fool that his biggest hit was popular for the phrase 'i need Igbo and shayo'....this is the same fool accusing others of lacking content

My people forgive him, na Indian hemp dey speak

You are a big clown. People have different reasons for listening to and loving music. Wetin you love must not be what others love.

Armaggedon:
The truth at last. Once you tell me you enjoy songs from WizKid, Davido etc I'll rate you low instantly.

Winner90:
read and understand my comment. Firstly, no relationship between the style of contemporary songs labelled afrobeat and fela's style. Secondly, Fela was a popular personality mainly because he founded a genre notably for a unique combination of certain instruments. But non of fela's songs themselves have global appeal, same with sunny ade. Remind me Angelique kidjo's pidgin song that is a worldwide hit. It is better to sing in your language and English like kidjo than in pidgin.
Bob Marley despite being a raggae artiste, had global hits like "one love" because it was creatively written in English.

What about songs like mad over you, love nwantiti and calm down that were sang in pidgin

Winner90:
read and understand my comment. Firstly, no relationship between the style of contemporary songs labelled afrobeat and fela's style. Secondly, Fela was a popular personality mainly because he founded a genre notably for a unique combination of certain instruments. But non of fela's songs themselves have global appeal, same with sunny ade. Remind me Angelique kidjo's pidgin song that is a worldwide hit. It is better to sing in your language and English like kidjo than in pidgin.
Bob Marley despite being a raggae artiste, had global hits like "one love" because it was creatively written in English.

pls... The song 'despacito' was an afrikaan song shey?

Winner90:
read and understand my comment. Firstly, no relationship between the style of contemporary songs labelled afrobeat and fela's style. Secondly, Fela was a popular personality mainly because he founded a genre notably for a unique combination of certain instruments. But non of fela's songs themselves have global appeal, same with sunny ade. Remind me Angelique kidjo's pidgin song that is a worldwide hit. It is better to sing in your language and English like kidjo than in pidgin.
Bob Marley despite being a raggae artiste, had global hits like "one love" because it was creatively written in English.

Burna's Twice as tall won granny. Go and check how appealing that Album has been to people outside the shore of this country. Europe, America etc. Asake's lonely at top isn't globally appealing? Where una dey get una igbo from? Rema's Baby Calm down nko. All burna was saying is that Afrobeat needs to start having meaning and not this language issues you're bringing up. Once you have a nice song, language won't matter

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SailorUgo:


Wrong.
Music is a universal language of its own. Doesn’t matter what language you sing with, great music is great music. And there’re millions of proof.

music is different from song. When you sing, the language and message are VERY IMPORTANT. Infact, it's the message that determines song category and audience. How do you expect a serious person who appreciates creativity to listen to a song whose sole theme is sex, women and money?
SMH come on, Afrobeat is just noise.

lekanation:
Coming out of the mouth of someone that 85percent of his songs are samples

Nigerians truly know little about music. If you do a proper research, you'd out that most of the songs you love were sampled be it beat, lyrics etc
Sampling isn't a crime
Artistes like Kanye West took sampling to a whole different level

True talk just nice beats and a bunch of meaningless mumbo-jumbo.

rapcy:
Well, some afrobeat songs has nothing in meaning truly but it is common with most artists globally. Even US artists dem how many of them get jams wet dey talk better thing? Mostly na about drugs and women and no better beat to shake body to. I rather jam to my afrobeat wet gather rythm. That said, even the Burna Boy has lost touch to who he really was, after that OUTSIDE and AFRICAN GIANT album the rest na half bake album trying his best to sound global when in real sense it was his local prowess that got him the recognition he has now.

Nothing wrong with "sounding global" though

It seems to be working for him.
Even kpop now is sounding global and is attracting global appeal

illicit:
Especially my guy Davido

Just sings about money

Wiz about girls, he tries sometime Sha like in Ojuelegba

David sings about money because that is his experience, Do you expect him to lie about his past just to appear like a freedom fighter? Burna can keep lieing to himself about soboma😂

Dyfynezz12:

But millions of ppl still stream and download their songs.

Mayb the world loves 'rubbish'

Definitely.
Give the world rubbish and watch them jubilate, give them meaningful thing and watch them call it lame.

Na when I'm high nai I dey dance or shake body for naija songs o
old school HipHop/RnB/Pop/Soul dominates my playlist 90 percent
Reminisce and Seriki make up the remaining 10 percent

Armaggedon:
The truth at last. Once you tell me you enjoy songs from WizKid, Davido etc I'll rate you low instantly.

Like your ratings come with a Billion Dollars. LMAO

Do people even care about substance this days, as long as they can vibe to the song, it ok eg calm down by rema, the song is empty but the beat is captivating and it has made him a global star.


Most American songs lack substance too, most of their songs are about money, drug, sex,

Their Female rappers only talk about pussy, money and nonsense .
Generally people who make good songs like Rihanna are no longer singing and in order to make it quicker people tend follow what is selling.

In conclusion people who do good music are few and they are converting to the other way around so that they won't fade out.

Cjizzy:
Nigerians truly know little about music. If you do a proper research, you'd out that most of the songs you love were sampled be it beat, lyrics etc
Sampling isn't a crime
Artistes like Kanye West took sampling to a whole different level

The little I know is that burna boy's major hits are samples and the guy is also a copycat. Now lemme ask you a question, tell me the name and song and artiste that ckay sampled in love nwantiti

Armaggedon:
The truth at last. Once you tell me you enjoy songs from WizKid, Davido etc I'll rate you low instantly.

But you enjoy migos, beyonce and cardi b right