Social media causing laziness among musicians – VVIP
Zeal and Prodigal of hiplife group VVIP have suggested that due to
the use of social media, there is increased laxity among Ghanaian
musicians.
The famous music group, in an interview with Happy FM’s DJ Advicer
disclosed: ”for now we will blame the internet because anybody can be a
musician, anybody can just get up to do music”.
“Before it was talent and to put your music out there, it needs to
have an impact to the public where if somebody is to invest in you
he/she will get profit. But now, if you play music and put it on the
internet and by mistake it catches the public’s attention, then you
automatically become a musician.
But before, it wasn’t like that –you
need to play your songs at parties, go to National Theatre, Conference
Center, and underground shows for people to see you perform well.”
They further stated: “at our time, we used to send CD’s to Tamale
just for people to hear our songs but for now due to social media, our
musicians have become very lazy, making the kind of system we are in now
very easy but it has become a problem because investors now
concentrating on the number of follows instead of good talent.”
‘‘There are talented musicians, but instead of they looking for them,
they will check on social media and it’s making we the musicians lazy
to survive,” they added.
A multiple-award -winning group, VVIP consists Reggie Rockstone
(Reginald Ossei), Prodigal (Joseph Nana Ofori), and Zeal, (Abdul Hamid
Ibrahim).
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