Admittedly, I am a Bobi Wine fan. I find his persona so rich and unparalleled. His music speaks to the core of my being. He has lyrical maturity up his sleeves, but I must say, admittedly too, his Dembe song is total gibberish. An audio claptrap. A nonsensical song that was uncalled for. I understand he wants to stay relevant, he had strayed for a while, but his comeback is a mere failure. It holds no water. It is a camel’s fart in the wind. It’s a waste of time, air, power, MBs and ears. It is nothing but an audio of nonsense.
Musically, the producer struggled to get Bobi Wine a new style, a new voice that is completely different from what the Ghetto President is fond of. But boy, he falls flat on his keyboard, trying to create a beat that will reinvigorate Bobi Wine’s career and motion it to a new path. The outcome is an attempt at production, but it went all wrong. Yes, you may say it sounds great, but that’s you. It sounds horrible. The beat, at some point, is catchy, but it continuously pounds on like a stay-home Muzigo woman quarreling with a neighbor.
The lyrics are nonsensical, honestly. If Bobi Wine feels peeved to the bone, he should quit music and join politics. He should pick a struggle, pick nomination papers and get knees-deep in the dirty world of politics. There, he will remain as relevant as the rest of the politicians (yawn).
But here, in the cutthroat business of music, as others are churning out song-after-song with pricey videos, the lad from Kamwokya is in studio, silhouetted in the smokescreen of his former self writing a political song that, for him, might breathe life back into his ailing musical career. It’s a total fib. This doesn’t work. This won’t work. Bobi Wine knows it. And we, the consumers of his music, are taken for granted in the process.
Dembe didn’t work for me, musically (yes, musically). It’s a waste of time. It’s a pointless piece of music. He came off as nothing, but an opposition folk stuck in a musical skin. He should stick to his love hits, the ones with Nubian Li.
Listen to Dembe here.
Staff Writer