For the past few months we
have continuously had a lot of video premiers in this music industry. As to
whether it benefits the artistes or it benefits the clubs in which these
premiers are held is another story for another day.
Our main focus is to
dissect the most hyped music videos premiered recently in the capital as to
whether the videos premiered are worth all the hype given them or not.
We saw the hype for the
Vera video by DBlack in this country. For a period of two weeks all every
musician fan was enthused about the fact that the artiste said we about to see
a different video composition.
To our dismay the video
was premiered and honestly, it was as usual as the word it’s self. Nothing
different about the video composition, what we even saw was the fact that there
were holes in the video that needed to be fixed. One could hardly tell the
pattern of the story when you watch the ending part of the video.
Wow, so upon all the hype
we had in this country, fans tripping in their numbers at the club, all we had
is an everyday story praised as if we were going to witness something
extraordinary.
Another video hyped and
praised that does not deserve that kind of praise on the social media was EL’s
Kaalu video.
Seriously, everyone knows
the lyrical prowess of EL but for this particular video, the hip hop artiste
had it so wrong.
There was a hype about
some ‘chinzonto’ dance (meaning Chinese ladies doing azonto) but that was never
seen in the video rather we saw some local Ghanaian ladies dressed like
Chinese, why EL?
Finally, not to talk a lot
but am sure readers catch the drift that we want to say, lets look at Raquel’s
video for the most sing along song, Sweetio ft Sarkodie.
The hype was massive,
everybody wanted to be there just to catch a glimpse of the video since the
song was such a hit but what did we see?
A very low budgeted video
with some undefined shots making no sense, seriously we are sure all those who
went to the premier did not get the satisfaction they wanted.
So we are asking, should a
video be premiered at all? Should there be some criteria set in place before an
artiste can premier his / her video? May be the clubs should have some rules or
something because in as much they want to make all the money they need to think
about their customers for when a video is premiered and is that bad, next time,
the fans might not turn up.
Shouts to Edem for the
mede kuku video, great work, Stay J for baby ft mugeez and sister Deborah for
Uncle Obama video, may be the rest can take a word from these guys, it will
help for we are tired of watching wack videos after all the hype.
Story: Nana Yaw Wiredu /
Nanayaw18.com
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