The first time I ever remember of rivalry over one
particular song is when Annie Matumbi did collaboration with Nelson Katsache to
hit back at Peter Mawanga who did a track called Amakhala ku Blantyre as Peter Paine.
Apparently Peter sang that people just claim to
live a city life in Blantyre when they are suffering some undignified lives of
penury and homelessness. In turn Matumbi and Nelson sang back by claiming
people in Blantyre live a high life where living is not as bad as depicted in
Mawanga’s song.
As the story had it, Peter sought redress from
Cosoma which ended up banning the other track as it was adjudged to breach some
copyrights tenets.
Now the twin duo of Wiza and Westa whose showbiz ID
is W-Twice joined forces with Nepman to do a track called ‘Wadutsa Pompa’ which is found
in their Afana Chimodzimodzi Mixtape of
2015.
In turn five girls – Fortune who featured Danish,
Kwin Bee, Enweezy and Ewe did a ‘Wadutsa
Pompa’ remix which they called ‘Ndadutsa
Pompo’ which is a similar attempt to discredit the earlier works of W-Twice
and Nepman as was the case with the Mawanga-Matumbi act.
Just like Matumbi and Kasatche lacked in delivery
in terms of creativeness and refinement, the same is way too present in the
track by the five ladies.
The original track – both the audio and the video – stands out as it is presented
with more finesse and measured jaunt befittingly ensconced in an accompanying
‘Manganje’ beat that sustains its taste. It is very clear that it was planned
and this is why it is coherent and organised work while the girls rushed with
their ‘corresponding’ track.
The girls’ track bordered on a tasteless beef aimed at showing the side
of female folks that feeds into stereotypes that women are fond of shooting
their mouths off. Listening to the track you will appreciate that there is too
much voluble anger and raucous noise to compete with a piece of art where
Nepman was at his usual best as the twins weaved their way through perfectly
well.
Without trying to take it away from the girls, they are talented lot yes
but they should have taken their time to ensure that the remix cover was as
artistically tight as it was attractively appealing. The reason it has become
famous across the ghettos is because of people’s love of ‘conflict’ and ‘chaos’.
Even down the market street when a woman is shouting at a man, people
will flock to the spot, as houseflies do to a rotten carcass, just to enjoy the
unfolding drama. No way would such a rowdy woman lay claim that she is loved by
such a curious crowd that pander to scandal and escapism.
For the sake of entertainment as it is the case
elsewhere with vibrant entertainment economies, a remix on a controversial song
is serious business. It calls for more innovation as it is taken like a special
project.
If you are watching me, I have not touched on the
copyright matter because I believe Fortune might have sorted out copyright
issues with W-Twice as she also featured in another track in this mix tape
called ‘Bulangete’ which is another
cover of one of Malawi’s oldies, meaning she is a buddy to the twins.
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