My discrepant affair
with the tv doesn’t make my restless self sit half an hour glued to the screen
but my woozy love for music has me to scroll different channels for quarter the
hour before hitting the hard conclusion for which music station to kiss my eyes
to. News or soccer aint my thingy, Hip tv serves me the trio spiced meal of
sports, celebrity life, musical video and all. I literally forget to eat when I
am engrossed.
The wave of the moment
being our annually celebrated Naija grammy awards “The Headies” with the
central clamour as the “Next Rated” award category. We all
have our phalanges crossed (anatomy jargon – I meant fingers) for who rides
home the gold crafted plaque of Sound Sultan’s head in a brand new saloon car.
The world is bound to the revolving law of nature hence the intensity of
advancement in every phase of life. (Technology, Entertainment, etc.) Daily
exponential rise in musical production has made the entertainment cycle a
highly competitive pool to toss into else one gets drowned and forgotten. To
think I won the straight bet of Sean
Tizzle as the Next Rated artist last year, I dare not attempt such this
year - with the specie of nominees that threw lost in battle of choices. Yes!
The sky, they say is broad enough for birds to flock, the waters’ enough abode
for fishes to swim without clash while the earth is abundant enough for plants
to be green;- yet in this same limitless world of ours is the beeping pulse of
competition which every second reminds you of the race to ace.
Femi Daniel’s sonorous
tone re-echoes the list of nominees in my head, I still in over a month
cannot decide who my take would be. Thus took me on a flight to Spain via
dictionary airlines to buy a word or phrase best suited for the Next Rated
award category. It was quite expensive first finding a word out of my
vocabulary junk then bargaining for its synonym in Spanish. “Cluster”
as a context that I’ld device to describe this was sourced from my BST 401
reading manual. This refers to a statistical method of sampling where a cluster
of homogenous units or species is selected for study observation. No blame me
abeg, I read the carryover course like my life depended on it and worked the
calculus the whole mosquito feasted night. You see it is hard to recover from
such.
Rather than straining
my exam battered brains any further to start speculating who my Next Rated
would be, I just found my right term for the situation and twinned it into
Spanish “AMONTONAMIENTO.” An exact synonym for “CLUSTER” which can be
said as a pile or variety of objects. The objects in question here being not
ordinary, but individual vessels of Naija’s very versatile artists.
Hey! Before you ask
what my own is in this matter. I am not paid for this and I should remind you
that I am a full breed young Naija babe with my heart in music as every other
youth’s. I own a voice to be heard and my opinions possess a ground. Free me
make I yarn my mind! (I am just freestyling) I will tell you what I feel, the
comment box is yours to share your thoughts :- “NEXT RATED AMONTONAMIENTO!” If
you are getting the gist, what I am saying here about the Next Rated category
of the Headies award is that it is a richly clustered nominee content which
from my own point of view threw me into battle of choices as I earlier
stressed. I don’t know about you, you sure might have dotted your own
preference but I should tell you that all the nominees were from my box of
preference. I have nothing less than 3 each of their tracks on my favourite
playlist. Exactly the point I am stressing!
My catchy choices like
the colours of rainbow. Shall we begin from OREZI. Awesome follower and
so sleek artist with about a dozen of hit singles that do not escape party
scenes. Have I mentioned his sizzling videos where my wack self learns dance
steps form.i am of the opinion that he was long overdue to have being the Next
Rated sef. The car will do just good while he cruizes.
Whayasay! PATORAKINGFIRE ever blazing Alubarika
crooner. That skinny nigga spits fire in great tune. He has in his moment of
reign been very productive. He is as a plant growing into a strong
oak. Watch out for him. I can like to put Girlie O remix on repeat now. BOOMBA!
Our Tangerine sugar YEMI ALADE of whom I can say is a raw
talent from the cores, bestowed lady with energy and vibes so rare of an
average woman. You wan lie say you dey dance “Johnny?” She has
relentlessly been stirring the dance world with hot jamz and speaking of
personality, I think the dance-hall queen is amazing.
Top
rated next rated RUNTOWN!
Yes he is running this town! How
more vivid? Tracks that will have you rocking limblessly, videos that will make
you forget Hollywood. Vast talent just diffusing into the surface. Hope we will
be able to contain to contain him in then future!
Oya shake body! If by
the viral rate of the dance track which unborns even shake to, then SKALES should be riding the new car
home and just grace his shelf with the Headies jeje. That young man had been there and not shaken, answering to
the roll-call of Naija talents. So please fellas what are we talking about
here.
All these were personal
thoughts orchestrated into writing, I do not know what side of the flag you
wave but as for me I will vote all the nominees if chanced. That is to say that
they are all worth it. I wont nurse any biased feeling for whoever amongst the
penta wins Walahi.
PS- This write-up is
subjected to criticism as regard the criteria for winning the Next
rated award which I do not reserve in-depth knowledge about and do not
care. (Na my own I sha don talk – Freedom of expression abi?) I wrote all out
of my preference box for’em all…… Shoutout to the
conglomerate of brains that made up the nominee list.
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