Nigerian singer and half of the defunct P-Square duo, Paul Okoye, aka Rudeboy, has claimed that social media has lowered the status and worth fans hooked up to musicians as a result of mystique that artistes had earlier than the period of social media.
Speaking in a current interview with Lun Lifestyle TV, Rudeboy argued that social media, regardless of all its advantages, has shattered the phantasm of artistes being mysterious and godlike.
This he stated has lowered the excitement artistes beforehand loved each time their fans received the chance to see them whether or not bodily or visually.
The ‘Reason With Me’ crooner defined that as a result of artistes are no longer mysterious, fans are no longer keen to look at them in music movies.
He claimed that taking pictures music movies is now a waste of cash.
Rudeboy stated, “Music movies one way or the other now, due to this technology, is a waste of cash. I’m sorry to say this. But do you bear in mind us [P-Square] earlier than? You do not see us wherever. You simply watch music movies, you see us and that is it, or we come to your nation, you see us.
“The motive you do not see folks faint for artistes anymore is as a result of they see them on TikTok day-after-day dancing and selling your music. If Michael Jackson was alive now and doing promotional content material on social media, no one would see him and faint.
“Unfortunately, it is too late for us to deliver again the period of artistes being mystiques. How are you able to advise an artiste to submit day-after-day? How? Post what? You needn’t.
“Social media introduced constructive change to the trade but it surely additionally led to ‘see-end.’ Artistes at the moment are too uncovered. Fans see how they eat, cry. Before when artistes go to membership, they keep in restricted VIP areas, however now when they’re clubbing, everyone seems to be filming.”
