Afrobeats singer Oxlade has urged Nigerian artistes to make their songs longer, rather than keeping them short.
He made the appeal through a post on his social media account, writing: “Bring Back 5 Minutes Songs.”
The post generated various reactions from fans, who shared their opinions in the comment section.
Artu Samak wrote: “Tbh, I grew up thinking a song should be 4 minutes long. Until dem Davido and Wizkid came. Then Mayorkun, kizz Daniel and co na reduce everything to 2-3 minutes 🤦🏾♂️”
Jaranjh added: “I & my sis still had this conversation recently. Dem era of 2face, Sound sultan Dbanj, Wande coal p-square, Asa weird mc, style plus Olu maintain Those era was crazily good bro.. I won’t lie. But these days, Marge two songs together E go still hard before e reach 5mins.”
Chevko commented: “Nobody stop you from singing a full album in one track ooo” Woley DM said: “Finally speaking up. Na soso 2 minutes songs these days. OGs like Dbanj, 2baba, Psquare did not sing like that so where all of una learn am from?”
Oreofe Oluwa wrote: “Please, bring it back. All these short songs that lacks substance is frustrating asf” Soundzofficial added: “Everybody dey find replay value, 2mins songs, no head or tail,zero substance, sad.” UrchIce said: “I swear man, you could go for a 30 minutes run listening to about 8-10 songs now for a 30 minutes run you could listen to over 15 – 20 songs.”
