Styl Plus, Have they fallen off?
June 26, 2008 at 12:24 am (thoughts - music related) (album review, ayeni the great, Music Reviews, Nigerian music, styl plus)
Over the past few days, I have been overdosing myself on Naija music for a change. Maybe it has something to do with my sojourn to the south west for abit earlier in the month and all the fun I had. Who knows, who cares? Anyway, I was reading around, and I stumbled on a post on http://ayenithegreat.wordpress.com about Styl Plus, and I could not agree more.
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… The boys not only remained stubbornly in Abuja, the headquarters of politics; they started churning out badly conceptualised, badly directed videos that did little to enhance their status (months after the songs had damped down from the radio charts)… STYL Plus remained unreachable, unavailable and…
trae_z said,
June 28, 2008 at 9:42 pm
ayeni spoke some truths but the negativity, lack of objectivity and the clear anti-Abuja bias rubbed the article of its shine. from my own research the album was disappointing but “four years” is at least another certified hit in their stable.
they pulled “Iya basira” and “four years” off successfully but i pretty much thing they should stick with their normal script.