Perhaps I was
wrong to defend the quality of Tonto Dikeh’s first single ‘Get High’ on the ground
that it was a cheap publicity stunt which Nigerian music lovers bought without
thinking twice. I saw nothing wrong with actors and actresses trying to do
music, if musicians are free to feature in movies as well. It is a free world
where everyone is free to try anything.
I was wrong
because she just dropped another disappointment in the video of the song which I
can rate as another Nollywood flick, where movies are just made for the sake of
making movies and not for the sake of making quality movies.
Thank God
Nollywood producers are taking time to make movies these days and movies made
here are going places around the world, which is something Tonto Dikeh should
have copied.
To me, Tonto
shot the video because she wanted to be on news again, or she wanted to improve
on her CV as an artiste, but music is never meant to be rushed, and probably
she skipped that page on her music book.
I see nothing
spectacular about the video owing to Tonto’s vast experience in Nollywood and
her exposure to the making quality movies and videos.
Did she even
watch that video? The part she said that the inspiration keeps flowing in.
What is
inspiring about the song and the video?
My grand mum could
have done better with her budget on the video, unless the video shot didn’t cost
her a thing.
My advice to
Tonto is that she should stay away from Nollywood theme song producers, at
least Google can help her find the right
person if she types in the right key words on the search bar.
Tonto might have
the zeal, but she has proven beyond reasonable doubt that the talent to do
music is something she doesn’t have at the moment. She can grow it, she can learn
it or she can still copy it, but all we need from her is nothing but good
music.
I’m a big fan of
Tonto Dikeh the actress, but I doubt my love for Tonto Dikeh the musician.
We know that an
album is a long a journey, and Tonto can really make experience her best
teacher if she can remember what happened to the likes of Genevieve, Omotala
and others in their pursuit of fame in the music world.
