AFROBEAT WILL TAKE OVER POP MUSIC

Afrobeat taking over from pop music, to rule over the music industry, as the most listed genre

Afrobeat is the new genre of music that will soon take over the pop culture by storm. Pop music has been there since 50s while the new Afro beat that is about taking over from the pop culture, is barely 25 years old. Popular music, widely known as pop music, is over seventy years old, while the new afro beat now is getting to its twenty five years. Yet moving with the speed of light. Afro beat is the brand of music from the western part of Africa precisely Nigeria, southern part of the country. Just pop music, Afro beat is also the music of the young people and the younger generation, embraced the culture, 99% of the people that are into pop and Afro beat are young people, from 50 years downwards. Today’s Afro beats is structured and arranged like the pop music, its duration lasts from 2 to seven minutes. It has a repeated chorous with two or more verses. Afro beats goes with collaboration just like Pop and other music genre. It shares a lot of similarity in terms of rhythm, Afro beat is rhythmic; accompanied with dancing vibes. Most afro beats are dance music. They were created for parties and night club. One place that Afro beat deviated from the Pop was in the terms of the message it passes along, it initially stood as a weapon for fighting the bad government. Meanwhile, Pop music, dominantly, centered its core message on relationships, the sweet, the bitter, the sour, and about enjoying life. But Afro beat was invented as the music that was used to fight the bad government. And later on the younger generation refurbished it into somewhat that looked like pop in terms of massage/lyrics about love it now carries. Today Afrobeats is getting more and more international recognition and acceptance. The rest of the world never wanted to identify with the music from Africa. They were formally seen as people with lower grade music inclination, who can only sing folk songs and traditional music. But the influx of their music brand in the international market, has proved otherwise. With the help some incredible artistes like, Wizkid, Davido, Burnaboy, Tuface, Timaya, Fireboy, Tiwa Savage, Simi, Adekunle Gold, Techno, Tems, Yemi Alade, Kiss Daniel, Olamide, Flavour, Falz, Psquare, and many more.