I've always wondered this. As far as the lyricism in Congolese rumba, when the singer is taking the perspective of his own or as man vs the perspective as a woman?Like to they go back and forth switching perspectives? I've noticed that Franco used to sing from the perspective of a woman sometimes too.
As the title says they are just praise songs nothing else .
Quote from: Mirobexx on January 31, 2019, 05:41As the title says they are just praise songs nothing else .are the romantic phrases directed at these donors by male singers in the context of praise music also? Is this a cultural phenomena specific to and contextual to Congolese culture and expressed in the rumba musical style? I can understand a praise song that lists the accomplishes and masculine traits of a man in his society and community but not the man in question addressed in a romantic manner by the male singer. What role are these male singers taking in the love songs? A female lover to the male donor? In some songs it is clear especially in the songs that the footballers buy for their wives like in "One Love" where it is clear that he addresses the wife of Alex Song as the wife of Alex Song. But who are the male singers addressing the male donors directly as in the songs? Or are they just singing in an impersonal role to these male donors? That is, there is no context to their singing. They are singing love songs to these men and this is normal in Congolese society as expressed in the rumba music. These are the questions I want more detail and context in.
sometimes its done on purpose from a man perspective to a woman or vice versa, and more and more these days musicians just buy or steal a song from writers which they find nice then insert the name of the guy who came with the biggest cash or who completed money agreed the quickest regardless of the text and whether it matchs his life or not