Music is a generally spoken language which irrespective of the language can be enjoyed by various types, race of listeners. It can be enjoyed because of its beat, especially in the African continent where we like to party and dance. In some parts of the world, they appreciate the lyrics and some do value the melodies. While many judge a song with its meaningful lyrics, it's down to what we refer to as "meaningful". A song can be all about political issues and not get to a particular audience, another song can be all about love and not satisfying to a different audience. It's all about what we really want in a song. As we know that there are different types of music genre and some of these genres are particular to a lyrical content. RnB talks mostly about love, Afrobeats about groove, partying e.t.c. This is why Afrobeats is gaining so much recognition, why? Because this is a life of celebration and we all want to feel good, dance and groove.
Afrobeats is a very delicate genre because as simple as it is, it requires a lot of versatility and creativity with melodies enclosing it. Melody is a catchy lyrical content which shows the gut of the singer to think outside the usual, the box in satisfying the listeners. Singers like KSA, Fela Anikulapo, Wizkid has this in their contents. BurnaBoy thrives thrives well with life issues which satisfies his audience, Davido excells in commercial music and Olamide is an expert of street-inspired songs. They all do well in their field yet it's with the same mindset, what my audience want. Understanding this, we should know that there are many face to music and we should enjoy the face we want and not try to downgrade the other faces.
Oluwalonsholar
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