So Psquare’s ‘Alingo’ video was banned? I wasn’t aware, not until I saw
what one of the brothers said something about it, “We heard about the ban. But when
they ban a particular song, they are indeed helping to promote that song. By the
way, if they ban a song from being broadcast in Nigeria stations, will they
stop MTV, Channel O, Soundcity and other cable networks from playing the same
song? It’s not possible”, said peter Okoye, one of the brothers that formed
Psquare.
He is actually right, trust Nigerians, as they've banned the video,
Nigerians will continue to watch it to their full. But, I don’t get it, why did
they ban it in the first place???
He later explained why they did a dance video out of the song ‘Alingo’, “Psquare
for the past five years hasn’t done any dance video and our fans expected to
see something of that nature from us. So, ‘Alingo’ was just the first song we
had even before the ‘Invasion’ album came out. We didn’t take the song
seriously until when our fans started loving it. And before we knew what was
happening, it caught fire. We had no choice than to give our fans a video,”
He continued, “When the song started picking up, we thought it is
important to give our fans something they have never gotten from Psquare in the
past five years. The last time we did something similar to this, ‘Roll it’ was
over five years ago. It took us a lot of time and energy to produce the album.
Our
senior brother, Jude who is also our manager shot the video. Interestingly,
most people didn’t know that the video was shot in Nigeria. We went to an
abandoned warehouse situated some ten minutes away from our Lagos residence to
shoot the video.”
Peter also spoke about Akon, Konvict Musik record label and their love
for Africa,
“Our relationship with Akon is great. We have known Akon for over six
years but we were not looking forward to working with him until last two years
when he attended our concert in London. After watching us perform on stage, he
developed interest in working with us
Then he was planning to open a branch of his Konvict Musik record label
in Africa and he was in need of business partners who would help him coordinate
the business. That was how we teamed up with him to establish Konvict Musik in
Nigeria. We are representing Akon in Africa just as he is representing in
America. That’s the whole idea.”
Peter also addressed the rumour that Psquare owns a private jet....
“There was nothing like that. I guess because it was included in our
list that whenever we are going for a specific show, the organisers must
provide us with a private jet. We had a deal with a private Jet Company which always
hire their private jet to us whenever we are in need of it. It’s like we have a
private jet at our disposal. I remember, I once tweeted that a private jet has
been included in our list.
That was how people started speculating that Psquare has bought a
private jet. But we always travel with the jet all the time. To be honest with
you, the way things are going, we are planning to buy one, and it’s not because
of the cost implication of hiring a private jet, but the fact that we want to
meet up with our concerts.”
Kudos to them........
I can see why they would! After being on a few private jet rentals myself I can say that it really is the best way to travel
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