Music Review: Reekado Banks puts out unimpressive remix to hit song, ‘Rora’

One of the major reasons for a remix is to improve a song from its original state by altering, adding, removing or changing the elements of a song.

These terms were not considered properly by Nigerian award-winning artist, Reekado Banks, in his newly released single remix ‘Rora’.

Having said that, a remixed song should be refurbished to improve and replenish the original song so that it does not fade out easily.q A good example is the Naira Marley ‘Is a Goal’ remix he released last year, which was well appreciated by his fans due to the increased energy in the song and unique vibe the artist added to the song through the artist he featured.

It is no doubt that the Afropop singer, Reekado has remained consistent in the music industry ever since he released his first single ‘Turn it up’ under his former record label Mavin Records back in 2014, but his consistency might not be relevant if he continues putting out lagging songs.

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The newly released single ‘Rora’ remix features a British female singer, Estelle Lavaud, making the song an embodiment of Afrobeats and jazz sounds. The original song is considered a hit record by his fans who took to their various social media handles to commend the singer after its release. However, the remix is not receiving much of the accolades expected.

Music is an artwork which involves creativity but it seems Reekado Banks did not acknowledge that. The newly released remix features the same lyrics, rhythm, sound and production on the side of the singer except for the second verse which is done by the featured artiste, Lavaud.

Although the UK based singer Lavaud put her unique vibe into the song, the remix sounds too dry as every lyric by Reekado Banks, on the original version of the song is repeated. Thus the featured artist is not able to upgrade the song as expected.

On the newly released song, the singer is trying to express admiration for a lady which is well accepted but using words like “baby this your yansh na shitor if you gree me mo ma la tan”, sounds too vulgar especially considering the fact that the lyrics might not be censored and the audience are both old and young.

Admittedly, Reekado has always been a multi-talented musician, loved for his voice and rhyme.

He might not have done well with the remix of ‘Rora’ which has little or no improvement. All hope is not yet lost as his fans look forward to his forthcoming studio album titled “Uncmn” expected to drop soon.

(NAN)