Yeah you’re spot on with everything you stated Archos. I had a feeling that might be the case. Werrason might be cutting himself short, I’m sure there’s a low supply of soloist that are good and charismatic looks wise. He’s already wasted a lot of them over the decades. He should’ve learned his lesson a long time ago
What’s wrong with the current guy? I know he’s not as good as Makaba but he seemed to be improving and was better than the other guys that were initially tested. Though this guy seems good too
What are they saying here? Are they hating on Ferre and Koffi? I see that lady a lot at the Werrason repetitions so I’m sure they’re not about about it.
Exactly! All it takes is something new to change the genre once again. It took Karmapa’s album to change the landscape back then. Now it has to happen again at some point. Why can’t fally or Ferre take that initiative? I just think they don’t want to take that risk and are complacent about where they are. They’re not thinking for the long term
To be honest, he was just not that good. I’m sure he wanted to be the main solo guy after Makaba, but that wasn’t going to work. The current guy they have, though not as good as Makaba, is a lot better than this guy
SYMPLICITY And Archos, you guys are completely spot on. I however think Archos is more correct. I think the reason why rhumba is more popular than sebene now is because they promote it waay more than they would a sebene/generique song. The rhumba wave feels more forced and artificial, and now the crowd/market has accepted it as the main standard in the genre. This all started because guys like Koffi started to force more rhumba in the albums in the mid 2000s.
SYMPLICITY, I do agree that it may be hard to go back to the generique/seben route, but what if they really tried? What if they took it seriously and released fire? Like Archos said, we haven’t seen a fire generique from Fally since Libre Parcour 2 which was almost 10 years ago. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to try in this landscape. You never know, it could change this current market.
I thought about this the other day and after listening to Heritier’s new Chemin album, I have to say this. I really think guys like Fally or Ferre could save this genre if they really wanted to. If you know me, you know exactly where I’m going with this but hear me out.
Fally and Ferre are the ones that are at the top right now and everybody follows suit. Whatever they do, the rest of the artists and bands follow them. So right now, they both create 1 or 2 generiques, and the rest are rhumbas mostly for their albums. That’s the standard format for the last 20 years almost and albums like Droit Chemin solidified it. By the mid 2010s, it kind of changed a little bit. When Fally released power 001 in 2013. It had like 3 or 4 generiques. Then you saw artists release numerous generiques for their albums and it was a great time during that period. Even guys like werra and Koffi released a good number of generiques and even seben songs in their albums in those years.
By the time Ecole releases in 2018, the format goes back to 1-2 generiques, the rest rhumba. The rest of the genre follows suit and it has been downhill from there. Now here we are today.
Now, Fally or Ferre have the power to change things. They could just aim for their next album to have fully generiques and seben, very little rhumba. Not just plain seben songs. Really strong seben songs, with strong animations and partitions that are on the level of the golden days, and to top it off with a new modern and innovative approach. If they did that, I bet everyone would follow suit too. Guys like werra and Koffi would definitely go back to that format too. Then the genre is saved, and fally or Ferre would truly be the GOATS.
The donors.. yes the donors. I think if fally/ferre really wanted to do a seben album, they could convince the donors. The fact that fally/ferre and the other artist don’t see the value in seben is what led to the donors to believe that as well. Now I know they wouldn’t take this risk because they would rather play it safe, that’s why I’m so disappointed in this generation. They have the power, but they just don’t use it the right way. Time will pass them by and they will lose this opportunity. Just like with the last generation in the late 2000s(werra,Koffi,JB). They don’t have the same power now that they did 20 years ago. The same thing will happen to Fally/Ferre.
Let me know what you guys think. I know I might be ridiculous here but I wanted to throw this out there and hear your thoughts on this.
Only one replayable song which is just the generique which is okay I guess. I’m not surprised with the rhumba format once again, but I’m just wondering is it ever going to change? It just seems to be getting worse-all the songs sound the same. I still think his first album was his best
Am I the only that think this is a better venue? La zamba was bigger and it has history, but this at least has better sound and a little more professional
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