Something fresh, Please

Is it not absurd how some of our gospel artistes take us for granted? All they care about is to just do the old songs we know, mess them up in the name of repackaging, and spew them into our ears. Even if you want to record a cover of an old tune, why don’t you just make it new in terms of arrangements, without messing them up? Skuulfo and Nacy did a good job on ‘M’aye Yie’. Vinepraise so far has done well in its covers of songs in terms of arrangements and selection of songs to go into a Long Play (LP). Other gospel artistes, the least said about them….

 It’s true, the Holy Bible is the main reference for gospel songs, but when an artiste creates a song from it, he or she becomes the rights owner of the song, unless such rights are relinquished to another individual or group. You can’t just pick up someone’s work and mess it up.

And come to think of it, do gospel artistes realize gospel songs are in categories as far as theme is concerned? The fact that a song is in a slow tempo does not necessarily mean it is worship. It could be thanksgiving, prayer, inspirational…. And a fast tempo song could also be praise, inspirational, prayer… If you think there is no prayer song in fast tempo, then listen again to Christiana Love’s (now Obaapa Christy) ‘Ahokyere ny3 d3’.

But on a more serious not, if you feel lazy to write a new song, how difficult should it be for you to research carefully old songs you wish to record cover on before hitting the studios to work on them?