The Relentless Builder: Anatomy Series

Anatomy of a Bad Song v. 2 [Featured Artiste: Mr. Eddie]

Labels: Anatomy Series, Mr. Eddie, Music, Stop-over music

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In continuing with the Anatomy series (see Version 1 HERE), the second version addresses a trend I am sure you are familiar with. You might not even think there is anything wrong with it, but I do. I am referring to the phenomenon that someone I know refers to as “STOP-OVER MUSIC.” Well, what is Stop-over music? A simple answer is that it is “Cut and paste” music. That doesn’t help much, does it?! LOL! Okay, what I am referring to is a scenario where a gospel artiste takes the beats / music of a very popular “secular” song and the only thing he (or she) changes are the lyrics. In other words, he uses (or attempts to use) “sanctified” lyrics with a secular song, which may or may not have sexual undertones.

Think of a typical “bump-and-grind” song and then for a minute try to imagine that same song with gospel music lyrics instead. Outrageous, isn’t it? It just does not fit, just like a square peg can never fit in a round hole. No matter what you do to the lyrics, at the back of your mind, you are still thinking of the original secular song. And in fact, you might even catch yourself singing it sef. If you’re like me, and you like to distinguish between secular and gospel music, then you’ll appreciate the need to avoid creating stop-over music.

Anatomy of a Bad Song v. 1 [Featured Artiste: IBK Spaceship Boy]

Labels: Anatomy Series, IBK Spaceship Boy, Music

Whoa! Christmas must have come early for Relentless this year. The lovely Toinlicious just gave me the "Versatile Blog" award. To say I am ecstatic would be an understatement. Baba God you too much! Thank you so much Toinlicious. I am deeply grateful, and I shall address the award in the next post *bows and curtsies*

Now, to the business of the day.

Whenever I listen to a song, there are certain elements that just irritate me, to say the least. Hence, I am starting this “Anatomy Series.” It is an open list of elements that make me want to scream (or itch or pull out my hair, strand by strand … or all of the above) when I see or hear one or more of them in a song. Since it is an open list, it means I will add more “offending” elements as I discover them. And this one is “v. 1” for “Version 1” because I decided to do copy-copy and copy the style of those software updates. If you happen to be a musician / an artiste and have ALL these elements in your song …. I will give you a nice present: 20 strokes of the cane (insert sound of koboko being fired up here). Seriously though, these are just my own ideas. Feel free to share yours (or disagree with mine). So, here we go.