Imagine a robber stops your car on the road, puts the fear of God in you first, then kneels down to beg you to hand over your phones and other valuables, all the while aiming a gun to your head. That sounds so confusing. Aramide has a voice sweet enough to pull a passionate robbery off but she doesn’t want anybody else’s money, all she wants is to have hers back.
As a follow up to “Love Me” which peaked at an impressive #3 on the PlayData charts, Aramide has switched things up on her latest single to show her less serious side. “FunMi Lowo” is a little left field coming from a singer we are more accustomed to hearing sing about love, but its welcome. Just how unserious is “FunMi Lowo”? There’s a part towards the end when someone yells that someone else in the studio should go and put off the generator. The record is that lighthearted and chirpy, but every good joke has some truth to it.
Aramide started off as a saxophonist but last year, she took home a Headie for Best Vocal Performance (Female). The Afro-soul singer and the evasive Sir Dauda use “FunMi Lowo” to describe their musical journeys and to pass a subtle message to all concerned that whatever they used to accept when they first started music, they wouldn’t be accepting any longer.
I work, work, work, I don dey tire /
I don hustle this music pass yoghurt and gala
The song adopts Rihanna’s “B!tch, Better Have My Money” but the extremely polite version – the caustic “b!tch” is replaced with the courteous “please” and Rihanna’s snarl is replaced with all the butter in Aramide’s kitchen.
Please do us a favor and press play on this breezy number and also vote for Aramide as the Alternative Artist of the Year at the Nigeria Entertainment Awards.