Why COVID Was a Blessing, Let Me Explain - Waje

For millions of people all over the world, COVID-19 and the COVID-19 pandemic was a horror. So many people lost their jobs, people got displaced, and at the worst of it, a whole lot of people lost their lives and the lives of loved ones.

But, for Nigerian singer and songwriter, it wasn't all bad. If anything, she says that COVID in her eyes was a blessing, especially for Afrobeats music. She made the revelation known during her appearance on Plus TV Africa's Tea Time show. Here is exactly what Waje said and why she believes that COVID was a blessing.

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During the interview, Waje was asked how she thinks the music industry has changed post-COVID 19. She said:

It's been a blessing to be honest with you. Cuz I think what happened with COVID seeing that everyone was home, first of all, tempo slowed down. [Prior to that], everybody was on a fast pace, like if it's not a fast song, it's not working. Because people were not going out anymore, people wanted to [stay home and] enjoy. So stuff that I grew up listening to, it was like it was being replicated. People started staying home again and listening to music. You're cleaning, you want a playlist on. So you started having like mid-tempos and things like that. The Tems of this generation suddenly had like a foot in which was so great. And it also gave room for Afro R&B to really come back and find it's footing in our stations, in our airwaves.

So COVID was a blessing, outside the sickness which was horrible.

It was a blessing because it also helped with social media. Just one day, you can bring out a track and the next day, you're the sensation. So it just shows you you never know. There are no rules anymore. There are no boxes. Yeah, people say carve a niche, all that is great, but just be consistent. I think that's the one thing I've learnt in my nineteen years as a musician. Just stay consistent and the day the ceiling go break for you, e go break.

I guess if one is to look for any silver lining at all from COVID-19 and the pandemic, then this is one we can look at. She's not wrong in saying that the pandemic definitely led to a rise in popularity of artistes like Tems and Omah Lay who make mid-tempo music and had already been on the scene for quite some time. If not for the pandemic, I truly do not know if the careers of acts like that would have blown up as much as they did.

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