Lagos – Wunmi Obe, co–founder of T.W.O (Tunde and Wunmi Obe) band, has urged media professionals to sanitise the music industry by checking the lewdness and obscenity displayed in music videos.
Obe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Wednesday that majority of young Nigerian musicians were finding it difficult to be unique because they lacked style and originality for their brand.
“The younger ones believe that this is their time, this is their way, it’s working for them and that’s it because when you think of what they are singing today and what was going on back then, only very few have imbibed a style and fused it with their own style today, very few of them that you can point to.
“But the rest of them, they have a particular theme, it has to be lewd, it has to be obscene and it has to be very fast-paced, and yeah, uptempo, other than that, then you don’t have a hit, that’s the mentality.
“And that is not what we were about in our time.
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“The onus also lies with journalists, part of the blame and the undoing of it, making it right, lies with journalists because it’s what you hype and what you consider as it; the in thing, that’s what everybody’s going to follow, that’s what everybody is going to accept.
“When you say what they are doing now is what should be done, or this is the way it should go and you hype them for it, then it becomes what is acceptable.
“What you encourage and what you praise and what you hype that they link to us, so it really lies with you, journalists.’’
NAN reports that Wunmi and her husband Tunde, have released five albums together. (NAN)