Gabriel Oyeniyi, Head of the Music Department at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education in Ijanikin Lagos, has lamented what he called the lack of a message in contemporary Nigerian music.
According to the University of Ife trained music don who also plays the piano, guitar and African drums, “The type of music we listen to today shows the kind of things we do. When all people sing about is corruption, then it shows the level of corruption we have in our society. Like DJ Zeez’s ‘Fokasibe’, what’s the message in that music? And this is the kind of song our kids are listening to. What message are our artistes passing to the society?
“They need to work on their lyrics. They need to have a focus, what kind of message do they pass to the society? Some of them preach intimacy
and it’s getting too embarrassing. We have other issues that need to be attended to. There is joblessness, corruption, poor infrastructure, among others. But you see, some of them have dined with these politicians, thus they can’t express themselves the way they ought to” he said.
