OPEN LETTER TO MR PRESIDENT CONCERNING SOME LOCAL MUSICIANS WHOS MUSIC IS 99% IMMORALITY AND DISGRACE TO OUR SOCIETY
RE: 100Million to Artists
I want to take this golden opportunity to thank you for having taken into consideration the psychological and mental aspect that this global pandemic has to the citizens in Kenya, the team that had advised you on boosting the morale of artists did not misguided you at any cost.
But dear your excellency, my concern as a parent is the nature of artists and the type of music to entertain us at home that raises the eyebrows of both my wife and I.
On the 3rd of April in the wake of your address and reward to artists, a video of a young girl dancing to a popular genre tune "utawezana" went viral under the hashtag #utaeezana challenge. meaning, are you able? the contents of the song and its assumptions are a story of another day that I wish those near you to share more what it means.
Mr president, just as Chrisitine Mungai put it as usual, the moral panic was swift and shrill – the head-shaking and finger-wagging, the familiar lament watoto wa siku hizi (kids these days), plus the rather grand where are we heading as a society.
Mr , president, it is in line with the latest hit song and many more similar to the "utawezana", that made me to write this open letter to you asking you to exclude such artists from the 100million package lest our society is going nowhere.
The Internet has been very significant in boosting this new genre which is being referred to as Odi-pop or Gengetone music which doesn't seem to rhyme well with the support granted to this nature of musicians.
It is against this backdrop that we now must consider the chants of wamlambez, wamnyonyez. If we steady our gaze on the nihilism and purposelessness that our young people have been forced – by the older generation – to inhabit, then their lewd chants and booty-shaking becomes less an indictment on their morals and more on our own, I think Christine Mungai can help explain further on this. It is, in fact, appropriate to regretfully mutter wazazi wa siku hizi ( Today’s parents). And it is not like every generation doesn’t have its own lustful excesses – many of today’s horrified parents did the same, or worse, at Jam Sessions or Safari Sevens. They sang along to "Nampenda John" and "Manyake", all sizes. The only difference is that there were no camera phones like now.
Mr president going by the current circumstances, the only morality our society cares about is the sexual one, yet the rest of our existence is incredibly immoral. The young people of today are gleefully forcing that hypocrisy to collapse on itself, by intentionally being as ratchet as possible – so over-the-top and outrageous that they becomes impossible to ignore. Because really, what’s the worst that could happen? “Shame and embarrassment is not the worst thing. We’ve experienced the worst, Supporting such acts from such musicians could make it even worse especially at this period when we have had the opportunity to sit with our sons and daughters.
Dear your excellence, I will be so happy if such matter is addressed as we continue to fight this pandemic and a solution sought as to the nature of how the 100Million will be used to support our artists.
I hope my request will reach your formidable attention.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Yours sincerely
Goeffrey Mosiria.
Well put
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