Original Photocopy | Featured Artiste: Vivien Stephen
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Creativity,
Flo,
Language,
Michael Abdul,
Music,
Vivien Stephen
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First off, Congratulations to 9jaFoodie on moving to what I
call “the next level.” She has moved to www.9jaFoodie.com
so please check out her new website and support her as she starts out on this
new phase. And now off to today’s
business. *clears throat*
For the last couple of years, Nigerian music in general has
been going through some sort of renaissance, and since gospel music no dey
carry last, it has also been part of that process. Parties, weddings and other social functions
have noticeably reflected this trend as there are considerably a lot more
Nigerian songs played at these events than used to be the case in the
past. I can’t really pin-point what
series of events led to this, but I am definitely loving it. Nowadays, it is so common to hear songs sang
completely in pidgin and/or another Nigerian language. In fact, that seems to be the winning recipe
for the more popular love songs. It is
like all of sudden we woke up and discovered that our culture (which inevitably
includes language) is something worth exporting, so to speak. I can’t really explain what happened to me
too, but I know that all of a sudden I pretty much lost interest in music that
did not have that Naija flavor and have even come to see it as the standard.