Even your Boo get a Boo
First and foremost I don’t like the word ‘boo’ and ‘bae’ at all!! sam sam (pidgin English for at all at all; which I think is another pidgin English). Then as if that isn’t enough, I can’t seem to move a mile without this song blasting from one speaker to another, all I hear is a boo a boo.
I woke up this morning and the lady with whom I share a fence with seems to have taken it upon herself to be a Dj, blasting different songs, some I care for, some I do not. Such noise pollution at early hours of the morning! She usually starts with a particular song which of course I think is a Christian song and then she slowly graduates to the other songs. Yes! I know her playlist well. I have come to know the songs on her tiny device, imagine if she now uses a speaker while doing her laundry. Phew!
I have been tempted to act as tho I stay in a face-me-I-slap-you and scream just like Eddie Murphy in Coming to America, only this time instead of saying “Good Morning America” I don’t mind waking up in America, I would be screaming “Gerriahere”. This is a time where I am grateful to Nigerians for having formed that sort of slang. How glorious/gangster it would be if I screamed that from my window. That day would surely be the end of civilization. I am sure the primitive me may have enough courage to be that razz.
Not that I had been able to curtail my anger just yet, this song was the next song on her playlist; even your boo has a boo! Why is this song following me everywhere I go!? So I thought to myself I can as well vent for the song since I can’t for the lady. Maybe after this, I may just throw the link of this article over the fence and make for myself a fri-nemy, buhahaha. Maybe I should buy her a strap and an earpiece. Really, I don’t get the concept of ‘boo’, I thought ‘boo’ is used to address boyfriends (okay, the dictionary claims its a unisex name, yeah right!). Well, then I still don’t know why I should start prophesying that kin tin. Such rough play!
On a serious note though, I think our songs are sometimes a pointer to the decay in the society or to our ideology as individuals. I can’t just phantom how we choose to sing ‘some’ lyrical jargon just for the sake of enjoyment. I asked a few people their take on this song and they were quick to tell me how true the song is and how supposedly every guy has a side boo. Side boo is a gist for another day. Well, the ladies may be quick to accept that but according to statistics, most women (can’t remember the precise percentage, if you know, share with us), have a guy on standby as an option. Hmm, Okay! I have no comment, that isn’t the reason for this post.
I just can’t take the part of ‘even your boo has a boo’. Yeah, I know you say it is just a song, I should not take things that personal! Okay, thank you. You can let people sing things that you don’t really want for yourself all in the name of ‘it is just a song’ but as for me I won’t.
I am outta here!
You can now ‘hurl’ you comments at me *covers eye*
Very true and correct bt not in totality. It simply. Should be generalised – even ur boo has a boo. Nice write-up mercy. And as for ur DJ neighbour, lool… I feel ur vent my dear. It is that bad that u will not even now when u r sing or even dancing to d song later in day, lool. Don’t know if i’m d only one it happens to.
Haha, true at the dance part, you are not alone! Thanks, I am glad you liked it.
So sorry, meant it should not be generalised
Thanks for commenting Dubem
Okay I don’t know the song. I’m curious…anyway I do agree with you that the recent songs are testimony to the moral decline in the society. I don’t expect my boo to have a boo o.
If people knew how much influence what they allow in has, they’ll be much more selective. On the surface it’s harmless listening to a song like that, but really those kinds of songs make us start compromising in our relationship. We won’t know when it happens, just that somehow we’re beginning to accept new ways of thinking that we used to despise.
Someone taught me yesterday that every song I listen to has an influence on me. I just hope that people will be more deliberate with their choices, even songs.
You have said it all Kehinde. We have to be very selective!