I love the Lord with all my heart then, JD.
Love is sweet and of course intoxicating. I met love at sixteen and of course ended sour. But before then, it drove me to places my parents could never imagined. The obvious is that love comes differently and yes, it comes with time so the need to constantly tell family and friends how much you love them and how important they mean to you if indeed you love them.
One person that does that beautifully better musically is Johnny Drille, a love maestro. John Ighodaro (JD) is not your regular artiste, he is a prophet of love, harbinger of love-centered music and has been able to successfully preach to the world the need to colour this crazy world with love through his genre of music. And really, isn’t here crazy?
In ‘Romeo and Juliet’, JD asserts that love is a beautiful thing and yes, simply indescribable and most beautiful when you tell it to people while alive. Make people know how loved they are while on earth, it doesn’t have to be at the graveside only.
Have you taken out time to listen to the song JD dedicates to IFIOK, a band member who died of stage 4 cancer. How can I forget in a hurry also how cancer took away my sister last year? Though the scar is still fresh, the joy sometimes is that I got the chance to repeatedly tell her how much I loved her.
However, what fascinates one beyond the loving lines of JD that are lovingly, lyrically laid is the impeccable rhythmic delivery that accompanies them and the excellent coordination of musical instruments which makes his music irresistible to the ears. Those band guys are not ordinary. Have you listened to ‘Anytime, Jumoke or Halleluya that has the scintillating angelic voice of Simi on it?
If you listen with an open mind, perhaps minding your business with a chilled bottle of your favourite drink on a weather-friendly day, it will be easier to also share in my sentiment (lols) that JD is one of the most talented sensational Nigerian singer (the current best actually for me), having gifted us many globally loved tracks like ‘How are you, my friend?, my kind of brown, setting soul, I found a love that never dies, etc.
In short, ‘Bad Dancer’ simply teaches lovers to cherish each other that it isn’t a sin to constantly profess love to each other and informs the public that reminding family and friends how special they are is a task that comes with time which death could end anytime.
Hear JD here:
‘…I’ve been a better man since I got you, girl, in my life
You’re so much more than I asked God for
How did I get you girl in my life
How happy you make me feel babe
You fit perfectly with me baby
You have my heart, you keep it safe…’
Expressing your sincere love for people gives you rest of mind and invariably makes you safe.
It’s another week. Tell someone how special he/she is to you.
Busayo Fakunle
Phonics instructor | Poet | Book and Song Reviewer | Children’s Author | Broadcast journalist | Publisher|
