Sauti Sol Under ‘Siekeeee’: Here Are Four Reasons Why Kenyans Forgot About The Controversial ‘Nerea’ Song So Quickly

Yesterday as I was enjoying my daily dose of Samosa, I came across a post that Nameless had shared on Instagram. He was haranguing a nation media journalist for belittling Sauti Sol (The pride of Kenya). The headline of the article that angered Nameless so much was ‘Sauti Sol Fail To Impress At Continental Awards Again.’

In it the journalist had launched into an impassioned and ultimately scathing critique of Sauti Sol’s display at the continental stage. I later learnt that several other Kenyan celebrities had hopped into the vitriol bandwagon of Nameless and vented their fury in a manner unseen before

But in the words of Dej Loaf, let’s just be honest……let’s be real……

I have been a Sauti Sol fan since Lazizi. I always find them extremely polite, friendly and utterly lacking in the absurd pretension of so many celebrities. But in as much as I love their music, there are things I feel they don’t do right.

After dropping Sura Yako, they could have gone on a roll with monster track after monster track featuring other top artistes. But what did they do instead? They got into a Grandpa records track with talentless artistes such as Kenrazy. Tell me if a judge at BET won’t watch that and get pissed. Then they collaborated with Amos and Josh in one of the most controversial but boring tracks ever.

There’s a reason people forgot about Nerea so quickly and here are but some of them

The message was way too unrealistic

Majority of men are secret advocates of abortion. Let’s not even lie to each other about that. Men want to smash raw and all but no man is comfortable with getting a woman pregnant. No man wants to raise a child by himself. All the nappy wrapping and poop wiping is too much work. So when a chic actually want s to have an abortion, a man will definitely agree to it.

It was offensive to women

The reason why the song was dubbed controversial is because it was offensive to women, Females felt they were unfairly portrayed in the lyrics. Why? Because the male gender is clearly the one that’s reputed for suggesting abortion in cases of pregnancy. At first, critics were divided about it but in the end they all hated it.

It wasn’t club friendly

‘Nerea’ was like a high school music festival kind of song. It was no club banger. Kenyans wanted another Sura Yako but they got the opposite – a somber narration of reproduction tales. The best use of this song would be as a lullaby for Kindergarten kids who are sobbing instead of snoring. Whenever I saw someone enjoying the track I couldn’t help but stare at them in blank bemusement topped by that ‘Gerrarahere’ look.. Sauti Sol can do better

Melancholy

The song evoked feelings of sadness and negativity. You see……Kenyans have too many problems already. They don’t want any more sadness. The dollar is at 102 shillings, grocery prices are up and jobs are hard to find. Add ‘Nerea’ to that mix and life becomes completely unbearable. So it’s just normal that Kenyans didn’t want to endure the torture of a sad song for more than a month.