Music can mean the world to people but still have different meanings. Just like music is a combination of sounds that can make you move your body, it can also be spiritual. For me, it is a form of art that helps connect with the inner self.
Due to this diversity in how we perceive music, it is possible to see different music and be able to relate to it differently. Sometimes, we want to get lost in the rhythm and just be left alone, while on other days, we want to connect with the beat and dance away.
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.” – Edward Bulwer Lytton
Every day of my life, I relate to music. I write about it, listen to it, and allow my soul to connect with the ones I like. Simply put, I am on a path that makes my interaction with music inevitable.
Today, I came across a song, and I will like you to go on this journey with me as I look into it, hoping that it will be one more added to my playlist.
Move Your Body by TMP Offisial
TMP Offisial is a Nigerian singer and songwriter whose genre is primarily in the Afrofusion category. He has a couple of songs in his name, including his EP Astro Vibez. After recording success with the EP, he went ahead on a couple of features, one with Bella Shmurda titled Kizo, and another with DJ Powerplay titled Location.
Move Your Body is his new song, and the title is self-explanatory. It is a party song aimed at making people dance during the festive period.
Zoning out the lyrics to see if the beat alone can make me dance, I was surprised at the combination of drums, jingles, and piano. That alone earned the song an eight on the vibe check. Rexxie did magic on that one.
Moving on from my evaluation of the beat, I synced the lyrics back with the beat, trying to make meaning of the song.
Although, I didn’t feel anything at the first listen – that’s how I feel about almost every song – I started to enjoy the song after the first three listens.
TMP was able to fuse the somewhat-fuji-sounding tone into the beat, making an incredible delivery. Coming from songs he had when he started to Move Your Body, he has improved a whole lot with his delivery, his command, and aligning with the beat. With the use of street slang, and words only people familiar with Fuji will understand, he was able to pass his message clearly which is to tell his audience to ‘move their body.’
Nonetheless, it is important to state that not everybody will understand the Fuji reference like when he mentioned ‘Bolaji Basia.’ On that note, I will give the lyrics a seven. That also makes the song pass the vibe check.
Now, to the overall production of the song. I might not know much about music production, but listening to songs with no background noise or songs with minimal activities going on in the background does it all for me. This song was able to do just that. The tempo was not too fast or too slow, just as the voice of the artist was not too high such that the beat is lost and vice versa.
The backup in the background is in sync with the song. Time was put into the production to make sure the voice was not off, so much that it matches the dominant voice.
I don’t see anything wrong with the production, so it can get a ten.
Overall Vibe Check
This song was released today and I can boldly say I have listened to it more than twenty times today alone. For me, most songs don’t go past the ten times listen before I get tired of it. But I’m still here trying to find the fault in either the lyrics, the beat, or the production but I haven’t found any. In fact, I might be getting addicted to the song which is a rare thing for me.
Overall, if I’m to score the song on a vibe check, I’ll score it an eight which means go and listen to it.