
Rema embodies the monoculture in Nigerian modern society becoming post-tribal where boundaries are disintegrating extendeding to other genres.
1. HEIS

2. Are You There?

3. Addicted

Which even showcases the import of music in Nigeria such as the blues, jazz, rock and in Rema's case Rave music.
A place where desire lets loose in the deafening walls of sound.
A performance of art in a technical sense that disintegrates into a semiotic machine that produces feelings associated with subjectivities.
Rema encompasses all of that while sounding larger than life.
That chill friend that knows how to rile up the squad, tiring you with the way he talks about his babe making you a bit jealous.
He exudes an especially sonically intoxicating energy that becomes a Disney land (where desire flows reaching nirvana) becoming what is capable to create ironic distance to the real.
An Interpassivity juxtaposed to energetic instrumentation that genuinely puts you in a grove to a good mood.
It presents a realism that can't be changed even when it's resisted, the system society operates on, is reinstated by a false symbolic law that is betrayed through the monopoly of violence.
What do you guys like about Rema?
Got any favourite song?
Also I thought of this video essay as I wrote this
Gonna watch it again
You can check it out if it interests you

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