MADONNA AND SON SPREAD LOVE IN PARIS

I have always loved and admired Madonna from my childhood. For me, she will always remain that strong ‘material girl’ and  ‘papa don’t preach’ lady in my mind’s eye with her crazy band.  She is one great pop artist and energetic performer who has just refused to grow old.  At 57, the lady still knows how to work her crowd whenever and wherever.

She is still very relevant and there is every indication that her fan base is also growing by the day as she is still having sold-out concerts. If you think otherwise, how would you describe a situation whereby all she had to do was send out a tweet to her fans inviting them for a show and to everyone’s amazement, there was a good turn out which of course was a pleasant surprise for the ‘La Isla Bonita’ crooner.

Though the impromptu event was at the memorial site of the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris in honour of the victims, the crowd was nevertheless excited to see Madonna who was accompanied by her son David and a guitarist as they did some of her songs such as 'like a prayer' as well as John Lennon's 'Imagine' even as the fans swung and took pictures with obvious joy. Even though Madonna invited her fans to this event immediately after a sold-out show at an Arena also in Paris, she still gave the people the feeling of "I'm so glad I came" as that was the expression on the faces of all those present 

According to reports, the singer was quoted to have said “Everybody knows why we’re here. We just want to sing a few songs about peace, just to spread love and joy, and to pay our honour and respect to the people who died almost four weeks ago. And to spread light. We all need it.”

Sure we all need light. There is no gainsaying the fact that MADONNA still rocks for a lot of us and from the look of things, she is going to keep rocking for a long time.

                                                                                     All she did as soon as she finished her sold-out concert was this simple tweet “I'm singing some songs in place de la republique, Meet me there now.” How many people can beat that? Not many, if you ask me.                                                          

           Go girl! You still rock!!

Nutty Olamide 'Badoo' Unleashes Beast Mode

Nutty 'badoo' guy Olamide has made plans to shut down Lagos come December 27th 2015 with the 2nd edition of his Olamide-live-in-concert tagged OLIC 2: Beast Mode Unleashed at the Eko Convention Centre, Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos.

Whenever I see this young hyper active fella who's fast becoming a man by the day, I see in him a child that wants to break lose if given the chance, he'll explode. Olamide strikes one as though he never sleeps rather he keeps awake all night looking for the next line to drop the next day. I love to hate this talented individual but most times I end up waiting to hear what he's dished out to the public again and again even though I wouldn't let my wards sing the songs.

Adetoro Suleiman who is the CEO of Right Entertainment, said Olamide  is a rare artist who is very consistent and committed to his art and arguably currently the biggest contemporary Nigerian artist with this year 2015 as the biggest proof of his hardwork. He also added that OLIC2 "promises to be one of the biggest nights of the year and I personally am looking forward to seeing the show live.”

I kind of agree with Adetoro to an extent and if you ask me, the guy, Olamide no doubts is very good at turning very 'stupid' slangs into songs which has now made him a highly accepted artist by a lot of people especially the active youths.

Thanks to social media platforms, even when his songs get banned by the Nigerian Broadsacting Commission (NBC), the teeming youths know where to find his songs as though he's truly the best thing that has happened to the Nigerian Music Industry even as a lot of lovers of good music complain about the trend of meaningless or 'kpakulumo' songs in the Industry.

On a lighter note at the same time seriously speaking, while wishing Olamide a good outing on his OLIC2, I hope he does not really 'Unleash' any 'Beast' *laughs* as Nigerians have had enough unleashed beasts in the form of insurgencies, non-payment of salaries, no light, bad roads, fuel scarcity and many more.  

BABYFACE BOUNCES BACK WITH 'RETURN OF THE TENDER LOVER'

Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds  the 56 year old American RnB singer, producer and songwriter who reigned greatly in the 90s is still very much around and waxing stronger as he debuts his new album 'Return of The Tender Lover' tomorrow the 4th of December 2015, thereby proving again that a great and born talented songbird never retires. *winks*

If it's the same Babyface who today has eleven grammy awards to his name and rocked our world with GREAT songs back-in-da-days, then expect our lives and homes to once again be filled with lovely songs and away from the 'kpakulumo' and silly songs that have become the trend in our society.

A lot of us (fans of Babyface) would definitely remember his 'Tender Lover' hit of the late 80s/early 90s. I doubt if there's any of his fans who can ever forget any of his songs because they all MADE SENSE.

A couple of months ago, while watching a musical on TV, I was trying to get over Aloe Blacc's 'I'm the man' when I heard the duo of Babyface and his 'forever' friend Toni Braxton come on with the 'Hurt You' track from their 'love, divorce and marriage' album. Phew! Was I blown away? Yes I was soooo blown away that I had to go listen to the rest of the tracks and I was not dissappointed one bit.

Babyface and Toni must have loads of wonderful moments/memories together as I can never forget how lovely they both looked together in the video of "give you my heart" back then under Babyface's Laface label. I envied seeing them together despite the fact I was so young yet I could detect that bond/chemistry between them. Again, they did a beautiful job together with 'love. marriage and divorce' in 2014. 

Enough said, because I know that nearly everything that has Babyface's touch turns to gold, I sincerely believe that Babyface's comeback with this his latest and first solo album after seven years will be a huge RETURN for all lovers of no-nonsense RnB songs. We've had enough of trashy songs hence it is time to be saved!

BRING IT ON BABYFACE!