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MY VGMA 2014 OBSERVATIONS.

TIME(Duration)

The event for me dragged for an awards night. The red carpet bit took roughly over 2hours from 8pm to 10:15pm and then came the main event which also lasted for 6hrs from 10:15pm to 3:00am so in all for one award event we spent 8hrs which for me was ridiculous and simply not healthy. Clearly the performances were way too many and hopefully whoever the planners are will factor in some of these concerns next time.

THE RED CARPET BIT AND EMCEES INTRODUCTION.

Amanda Jisseh and Blackboy did quite well getting people and asking them all the necessary and unnecessary questions. They wasted quite a lot of time but can we blame them that is what the planners of the event asked them to and they did just that. By the way Amanda has to watch what she wears, for a lady with a tummy that dress was inappropriate. She looked like a mum and a widow on the night but for her job she did it well. Blackboy was on point too but then came a part where some other lady Bella had to come introduce the MCs which was totally needless and a waste of time.

PERFORMANCES

Honestly whoever arranged the order of performance need a lot of learning to do because what we observed clearly shows he or she deserves some lashes. One moment we were singing gospel then right after we have a hiplife performance and back to gospel. That was a no no.At one point it was as if it was a gospel awards show. OJ and Sonny Badu for me raised the bar for gospel music and hopefully the hotel flower holding gospel artiste will learn something and impove.
The live band performances were on point but we can do better. Inyanya the Nigerian foreign artiste clearly didnt live up to the bill though he had so much energy, I don’t know if Ghanaians simply showed solidarity with Yvonne Nelson or something with Yvonne Okoro also seen kinda snubbing him. Well that is just the ‘Yesiyesi’ bit.
Sarkodie on the night showed why he is still Ghana’s finest, his energy, microphone technique were on point and he got the place charged and proved a point that the local artiste are worth the same treat and fee if they can electrify the place as well, a point Shatta Wale tried proving but as usual he always does it wrongly. Joey B was over excited for being up there on his own for the first time so he was also seen shouting into the microphone like he was performing at one of those beach parties. Desmond Blackmore you got work to do on him.
Oh Bisa Kdei, ok clearly dude doesn’t know what to do with a stage when given one. Great songs but he simply can’t perform,No energy.
Davido, well I think he took a cue from Inyanya’s performance so he came to silently mime his songs, jumped around on stage and bam edon finish. Not bad.
Samini well, I think if you have watched him perform over the years you will be getting fed up with the repeated performance and tracks. For Jupiter and Stonebuoy I will advice them to go watch their performance and see if it is worth it. Our live band is not there yet for the dancehall kinda music.

AWARDS

I think this year’s awards were less controversial. Most of the recipients deserved the awards because they worked hard for it. I felt Apae from Manifest could have won the album of the year compared to Sarkodie’s Sarkology but hey the votes matter and Ghana decides not me. Congratulations to Shatta Wale for winning the overall best artiste of the year, Most Popular song and Reggae/Dancehall artiste of the year but his absence even though was to revolt against the much huge amounts paid to foreign artiste compared to the local artiste was misplaced and disrespectful to his fans. He could have graced the occasion and still refused to perform and he would have still gotten his point across. I think the VGMA has to be taken serious and organizers moving forward will find a way of giving the award to the next artiste present. Overall best and it is not as he was sick but just an ego crap. Sometimes I wonder if he has a manager and how different he is from him. The korle-gono man simply has to sit up if he really wants to go places.

EMCEES

Last year I felt Eazzy aka Mildred Wevelley-Ashong did quiet well with a few diction issues here and there but it was just okay and worth a second chance though artiste(arteeeest) was being pronounced artist but they are two different things here. On a good day her make up artiste should be given quite some lashes and her hairstyle too was simply ‘someway bi’. I simply didn’t feel her this year like I did last year.
Kofi Okyere Darkoh(KOD) was simply boring, not creative and not funny. That selfie bit after watching a Grammy or Oscars and seeing Ellen do it was just not on. He really has to start thinking and come out with his own style and stop giving us Ghanaian versions of what has been done on the world stage already.
The two simply had the DOME in their hands to make or unmake the show and they made it boring. And oh the Polikem bit looked romantic though Dumelo’s act was finer.

All in all, the show for me was better than the previous one and that clearly shows we are getting somewhere and improving.

Thanks to Vodafone Ghana, Charter house and thanks to the GhOne crew for giving some of us couch commentators and Ghanaians the opportunity to witness yet another music awards but can you do something about the lights?

#myopinion