Highlife legend Gyedu-Blay Ambolley has shared his thoughts on why songs by current crop of artists do not last.
In an interview on eTV, he made careful analysis of our current musicians and their style of music, and drew his conclusion.
He stated that today’s music dies with time unlike those from back in the days done by himself and other legendary highlife artists.
Ambolley explained that producers of today’s music do not invest time into putting together the instrumentals according to the rudiments of music.
“Today’s music has been a sharp sharp style of music because the younger ones just get a computer and work on fruity loops to create rhythms. Some of the rappers even go to the studio, the engineer plays different beats and then they just choose one that they like.
Our time, it wasn’t like that. Our time, it’s not somebody who’s going to create it for you. You create it because we learnt what is called music; the rudiments of music, the cadences of music and all that. The younger ones these days don’t know about the rudiments and the cadences of it so sharp things also die out sharp sharp”, he explained.
Ambolley also said that the lyrical composition of artists these days is poor and doesn’t allow songs to last.
