Monday, May 18, 2009
‘Exotic’ Videos in the City of Accra
Ghanaian artistes cut their music videos with animated windmills, the Alps, Manhattan or flying Arabian carpets in the busy background. They’re casually crooning about common affection or double-entendre coupling. So, the welkin wonder is the ’rhymeless’ spectacle.
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I ope am not de only person hu is trying so hard to understand dis "Exotic" thing. No?
ReplyDeleteNana, I heard no!
Naa, perhaps you keep good company cos I'm totally at sea since I cannot comprehend "Dictionary boy"'s (that's what I call him) post today.
ReplyDeleteSorry, did not realise it was so arcane, Naa.
ReplyDeleteKiz, I am only saying I find it stupid that Ghanaian musicians in Ghana would put foreign places in the background, and yet the song is about good old love and nothing more.
ReplyDeleteYeah that was pretty much over my head also.
ReplyDeleteBut thanks for the explanation.
Guys, I am sorry about my failed communication. Please forgive me. I will make it up to you all.
ReplyDeleteIf it makes you feel better...i got it.....
ReplyDeleteIn that case, thanks, Anon. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, now I get it!
ReplyDeletehahahaha, so u all don't understand it n yet mute abt dat? lol,c'mon guys. Yuh gatto say wen yuh don't get it. Anyway thnaks Nana for breaking it down to our level of understanding
ReplyDeleteOkiez back to de issue, wen it comez to Ghanaian musicians(de so-called hip life musicians)I ave ma choice though. Wat dey sing is de same old story(luv luv luv wif no solutions n dey know lil too)n as u said de background....like dey r living in abroad(Jamaican man will say "dry land tourist" ) n de kinna dressing oh God help us( I like Sarkodie's dressing, simple,decent n gentle)n dose silly gals wif funny dressing, buh seriously if de musicians shld sing abt dis kinna ladies dressing n educate de public n dey demselves practise it i think we will ave a decent street wif no breast n am-aware wahala
ReplyDeleteOn the dress code issue raised by Naa. I agree that presently, it may not be decent for our ladies to expose too much. However, too often the argument for decent dressing is tied to our tradition and culture. And that is where the proponents lose me. Cos it appears to me that it has never been Ghanaian culture to dress to cover up all our whatever, and that the tradition and culture context argument is a recent hypocrisy. Cos it appears to me that throughout history, even as recent as 1935, our dress code (especially that of females) has been on the side of exposing stuff we presently conceive as very offensive.
ReplyDeleteKiz, I'm in tune with your argument. Exposure has always been a beautiful fact of African life.
ReplyDeleteThink of it this way ...breasts are just mammary glands for feeding the young, thighs are just to connect the legs to the body... Men ogle, so we cover!
ReplyDeleteMmm hmmm, Savvy
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