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MUSIC REVIEW: PSquare’s ‘Bank Alert’ is a good jam, but it means no love for poor folks
Following a messy fight that led to separation and a single each, Nigerian superstars twin music duo, Psquare has dropped a new banger, Bank Alert as a team.
Released on Thursday – with a promise that the video will be dropped on Friday – Bank Alert is made in the typical PSqaure style with highly danceable beat.
Like the duo’s 2014 hit Shekini, the musicians created the new ‘Bank Alert‘ to elicit dance right from the first second of the 4.13-minute jam.
After the brief intro, the music transits to its hook in which PSquare resurrects, Onyeka Onwenu’s 1992 pop rendition of Iyogogo, an Igbo love-themed folk song.
In the first verse, the group brought back the idea from its 2011 hit, Chop my money in which May D was featured, saying “To prove my loving you must chop my money eh,”
The very short verse 1, transits smoothly to the killer chorus with a lot of soukous/ makossa guitar flavour.
“Cos my bank alert na gbagam, my cheque no dey bounce
My mansion all na padam, baby take a look around
my bank alert na gbagam, my cheque no dey bounce
My mansion all na padam, baby take a look around.”
A longer verse 2 follows, where PSquare begs the lady in question to ‘say something’ so both of them can ‘do something’. Of course that’s an innuendo and I wouldn’t venture into its meaning. The folk song hook comes again, followed by the chorus that brags of a lot of material possession – money, mansion – with which the musician seeks to induce the girl into loving him.
The song has a full potential of staying on top of the music chart and DeeJays’ playlist for a long time.
However methinks if love was all about bank alerts, cheques and mansions as was subtly preached in the song, even many of PSquare’s fans will never find love. Listen to the song below.
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