I wonder what comes into the minds of this new breed of gospel artistes when they set their feet into the studios to record their songs. The fact that the songs seem to bear no new message is not as hurtful as the fact that these artistes just do not mind breaking our ear drums. They literally scream their lungs out as though we cannot hear them when they sing like normal people do. I do not want to sound offensive, but this has gone on for a long time now, and even when listeners tend to complain, the artistes just do not seem to care; they simply can’t be bothered.
The
likes of Daughters of Glorious Jesus (particularly Cynthia Appiadu), Tagoe
Sisters, Pastor Joe Beecham, Rev. Thomas Yawson, Nana Yaw Asare, Cindy
Thompson, Bernice Offei, Stella Seal, Mary Ghansah, have proven beyond all
reasonable doubt that you do not need to be good at ‘screaming’ to hit your
notes and get your audience to appreciate you.
Well,
maybe this unfortunate occurrences stem from the fact that the artistes fail to
realize that the main purpose of doing gospel music is for the message, and not
necessarily for entertainment. It could also be that the sound producers are
not helping the artistes to nurture their talents; so at the end of the day, we
have lazy artistes going into the studios to compete with beats produced from
high tech sound machines. I am not bothered when I hear some secular artistes
screaming on top of their voices. They are known to make noise, and thus is no
news. For the gospel artiste, lots of things need to be taken into consideration
before making a song. The rise and fall of the music should be accompanied by
the intended passion and emotion. You can’t just make it loud for loudness
sake… Girl, boy, tone down a bit, for we really want to hear what you have to
say to us… if you do not want to be bothered, then just do not bother us with
your so called messages.
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