The AMVCA which took
place on Sunday had different musical acts in attendance with some of
them mounting the stage to perform. One of these stars were the Mavins.
They took the stage to perform but their performance has since met a bit
of criticism. Read what this writer wrote about their performance
below.
I won’t spare them the venom in my
tongue on this one because when you’re arguably the biggest label in
Africa, you do not come out looking like a bunch of total flukes in an
elaborate mock-show of what was the biggest record of the entire
Nigerian entertainment since it’s inception.
The recently concluded AMVCA had a couple pitfalls and by a stroke of happenstance, the Mavins’ and their whatchamommacallit performance of Dorobucci happened to be atop the list.
OMG x 7!!!
It was drab, it was dreary, witheringly
scornful, awfully uninspiring and pretty much forgettable. The
organizers of the show should have allowed everyone a pee break or a
5-minute recess in it’s place. Reekado Banks was prancing up and down
the stage like a horse on ecstasy locked up in a paddock, Korede Bello
was busy attempting the electric slide in his own world of utopia,
D’Prince looked like a typical conformist who still couldn’t comprehend
what was going on, Di’Ja was either peeved by everyone being in her
space or was finding a way to give them their space and Don Jazzy (as a
boss man) perhaps didn’t give a flying fvck about anything. All he prolly knew was that they got paid for that bxtch afterall.
Sigh. The beauty of a song resonates
when you effectively communicate the innate feelings, desires and
motivation behind waxing a record in a manner that is entertaining to a
live audience. And on more than one occasion, the Mavins have failed to
deliver. First, it was the official video. Everything was wrong with it
and even Reeky Banks’ dance improvisation couldn’t save the four minutes
and forty-one seconds of our lives that had been wasted watching it.
Next, was the commissioning of the Akwa Ibom State Stadium. They
literally just showed up in almost angelic costumes to dance and push
their hands up in the air while a backing track played. That was no
performance my people. There was also that ‘Road to MAMAs’ thangthat reeked of nothing but excess energy only and now, this scathing seloquesence at the AMVCA.
It’s one thing to be a musician, I mean
almost any and everybody can… going by the doctrines upon which our
industry was founded. Then it’s totally another to be a performer. Not
just anybody can, which is why in an industry like ours, you don’t need
the voice of a Praiz to become the next Davido. So when artistes that we
idolize come out to deliver in such precipitate manner, it tells enough
about the perspective in which they view themselves and their fans.
It’s only here that our stars behave irrationally and are patted on the
back as they get away with it. This recurring feat has obviously eaten
deep into the kankerfabrics of our Nigerian music as every aspiring musician is in a hasty wait to buy a set of gold blings
and a Range Rover so they can thump hard on the renal of anyone who
poses a ‘hater-threat’ to them with Instagram and Twitter being the only
weapons in their new positions of power. It is very very unacceptable,
and they’re not even Chris Brown!
In other unrelated news, can someone
please do something about Korede and Ayoleyi’s looks? They’re members of
a dynasty (that even has supreme as part of it’s prefix), they’re like a
revolutionary movement! Korede shouldn’t always come out looking like
he’s been dressed in costumes that were picked out from the funeral
closet of Michael Jackson and as for Ayoleyi… Ifeanyi Nwune to the
rescue, PLEASE! Dencia too, maybe?
Written by Jim Donnett
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