‘Why fans no longer faint for musicians’ – Paul Okoye

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 mentioned has lowered the thrill artistes beforehand loved every time their fans obtained 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 observe them in music movies.

He claimed that taking pictures music movies is now a waste of cash.

Rudeboy mentioned, “Music movies in some way now, due to this era, is a waste of cash. I’m sorry to say this. But do you keep 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 by day dancing and selling your music. If Michael Jackson was alive now and doing promotional content material on social media, no person would see him and faint.

“Unfortunately, it is too late for us to carry again the period of artistes being mystiques. How are you able to advise an artiste to put up day by day? How? Post what? You need not.

“Social media introduced optimistic change to the trade however it 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.”