Asake's Only Me Vs Tuface's Only Me

I just listened to Asaka's song titled, Only Me - the same song whose video portrayed him dressed in priestly vestments with his "co-priests" as they carry out their form of worship as though they are on a mission to outdo Tinubu who has remained undefeated in the art of arranging fake priests and bishops.

After listening to the song, what I said immediately was, "Where is the song, has it started?"

I don't know about you, but the song is so empty (and this is me, not having the right words to describe how wack it is).

The song started with:

"We get money-money, we get money" (He said this almost like 30 times in the 2:45 minute song. You can go and count it if you doubt me.)

Then, in what appears to be the verses, all I kept hearing was:

Automatic,
traffic
I'm classy,
Make dem give me space
put body
collateral damage
Only me

Then, he went back to "We get money-money..." until the song ended.

What a song!

Walahi, una dey try. How do you listen to such a song and your IQ is not affected?

If you don't understand how wack the song is, try to compare it with 2 Baba song of 2010 which has the same title "Only Me".

I want you to listen to just one verse of that song by 2Baba:

🎶If to say na just me
I'll be living like I don't care
Live my life unto no body dey here
If na just me I'll be doing anyhow
Because nobody go dey there to challenge me
Nobody supernatural
Live versus spirit of the carnvial
The personality no matter at all
Individuality cannot make us tall
I sing I sing for all y'all
Don't let anybody push you to the wall
Na community na in make us tall
Secret society na in break us all
I don't want to be talking like a preacher at all
I no want to do as I sabi pass all
I know say eno be everybody e sabi play ball
But arise o compatriot if Nigeria call
So make you just dey do your thing make I do my thing
Live and let living instead of to be feeling like a king
On top of nothing stop the bragging on top the posing
Because you know say all na vanity vanishing🎶

It is now 14 years since 2 Baba dropped that song, and even though it is a secular song, not only is the song evergreen with lots of hard work put into it, the song is so deep that even monks will find it worth listening to.

This is Tuface saying he is "classy" without using the word "classy". He does not need to be shouting "we get money-money" 30 times.

I think there is something wrong with the present standard of songs from some of our so-called Afrobeat singers.

This is the time when the whole world listens to Nigeria and plays Nigeria songs, but what these artists do these days is package empty songs like how Asake did in "Only Me", then get ThankGod Omori to give a high-definition video and cinematography with a little touch of controversy so that it will cause traffic to their page.

This is why I am not surprised about the video. Ask yourself, what really is the connection between the video and the song? Music video is supposed to depict the song, but in this case, the video is unrelated.

That is how you know how empty and wack a song is and also the artist. This is even someone who was once nominated for a Grammy.

The whole theatrics of using the church and things for mass is so that people will watch the nonsense. Unfortunately, it works all the time because as of today, the song is approaching 1 million views on YouTube.

So, while Asake disrespected the church by allowing such mockery, he first disrespected the intelligence of his listeners by packaging empty songs that can reduce people's IQ. All these happen because we allowed it and because we will play and stream it, and because tomorrow, one church minister will even invite him to perform at his or her birthday party.

It is sad!

Credit: Rev. Fr. Kelvin Ugwu.

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Fact! The problem is that when someone who is not a musician and not famous points out these things, people will rebuke him by saying, "Bad belle, if e easy, sing your own". Some will even say that the person is speaking out of envy and because of poverty.

I don't have up to 20 of secular and gospel songs released in Nigeria from 2019 till date. Most of the young people around me find my playlist disgusting. Most of the people who appreciate my choices of songs are above the age of 40. No Asake's song on my playlist. For Burna Boi, I have only "Yawa Dey". For Wizzy, I have "Holla at your boy" and "Ojuelegba". No Davido on my playlist, no Rema and so on. You can now imagine how much youths hate my playlist. 😀

I don't hate those artists. It is not even because they sing about sex and say vulgar things. The point is that their lyrics are weak. Erigga is very vulga but I listen to his songs because his lyrics are not weak. Sorry, Erigga's new album no strong oh.

Once they manage to form a chorus, they get instrumentals and release a song. Gospel singers are even the worst but they sell because of their good voices. The choruses of most, if not all, of the trending recently-released Nigerian gospel songs are words or phrases that have been so common in even local Churches, and the arrangemens of those words or phrases in those songs are not so creative. The verses in most of the songs are so basic and common that even a kid could have easily contribute those verses if kids were consulted when the songs were being composed.

Secular artists use money and marketing to get ranks. The top 3 secular artists in Nigeria are not among the top 5 or even the top 10 good lyricists among Nigerian secular artists, but they are the top 3 Nigerian secular artists because of their wealth and marketing. They are not even among the top 10 when it comes to using good beats.

But I think the decadence is global and Nigeria is even trying. Otherwise, why are Nigerian artists reigning globally?😀

In a society where we now celebrate insanity what do you expect?!
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Reminds me of sadists at Nigerian universities parading themselves as lecturers, you will spend thousands on a project, they will look at it and refuse it just because the title doesn't resonate enough with them.
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My university in Russia called for research papers. As a student I sent my abstract on AI assisted sound and electrical impulse stimulation therapy as a treatment for tinnitus. they carefully examined it and approved me to submit the full content of the research. And you wonder why Nigerian universities are not in top 100 worldwide...
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It is simply because of the attitude of these lecturers...shunning quality research from students just because you are a student without the over glorified 'phd' meanwhile these kids and youngies out there are the ones with the modern intellect to output quality research that meets the demands of the modern day world not some recycled shits from 1960 references.
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Why am I saying this?
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ASUU and their lots are busy asking for money but they contributed a lot to the decay of our academic systems. They pushed these kids out of school and these kids ended up using their high power brains to produce shitty music, do fraud(Yahoo) and become popular through noises like Portable.
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Think of it, Nigerians are know to be very good in these things controlled by the youth.
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1. Music
2. Fraud
3. Internet popularity (Celebrities)
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When people have brains it doesn't matter if what they use it for is good or bad, that thing will be prosperous. I hate to admit it but even yahoo boys have contributed greatly to defending naira in previous years. And the last AFCON showed that when Nigerians decide to troll a whole country online your country is finished.

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Now imagine if those brains could be brought back into education, medicine, science, engineering.
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God! I am a medical student but in the city's IT park when I sometimes work I am the number one programmer. A f***cking Nigerian doing well in two different fields.

Davido is the probably the worst,I can't understand why people keep playing his songs,the moment Timaya relocated to Lagos,he joined the nonsense strong crew, his first album was dope. Flavour N'abania is just singing meaningless lyrics in a sweet melodic tone these days, totally meaningless gibberish, examples are loose guard and big baller tracks