{"id":17433,"date":"2018-10-22T12:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T10:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=17433"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:37:04","slug":"burna-boy-gbona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/burna-boy-gbona\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Moment: \u2018Gbona\u2019 by Burna Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content pam-featured-content\"  ><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h7WfPHHXCAY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/h4>\n<h4>Released towards the end of last month, Burna Boy\u2019s soul-hefting jam, &#8220;Gbona&#8221; is the best we have heard in recent times. &#8220;Gbona&#8221; follows the trail of Burna Boy\u2019s globally celebrated anthem, &#8220;Ye&#8221; by consciously tapping into Fela\u2019s Afrobeat aura.<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The song thrives on Kelp Amba\u2019s harmonious fusion of a static sound of the past with an infectious dance vibe from the present. It is amidst this melody that Burna Boy\u2019s smooth and apolitical delivery reigns. Unlike Fela, Burna Boy\u2019s Afrobeat aims to be groovy, not political, and progressively, &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gbona&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reminds that Afrobeat is a dance genre. \u201cAs I dey sing, they feel the bounce\/Make all the people jump around\u201d, He sings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Clarence Peters video released a day after the song confirms Fela\u2019s influence on Burna Boy\u2019s aesthetics. &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gbona&#8221;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">upbeat atmosphere is vibrantly captured alongside the performance of the Kalukata influenced female dancers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Find &#8220;Gbona&#8221; in our Afrobeats playlist on <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/panafricanmusic\/playlist\/5fzbLUbqLiEvriBPMlLNbf?si=Pj8v-NF6T7usGNwt3KyCiQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Watch next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/new-video-r2bees-boys-kasa\/\">R2Bees \u2013 Boys Kasa<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17434\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Burna-Boy-Gbona.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Burna-Boy-Gbona.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Burna-Boy-Gbona-759x427.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Burna-Boy-Gbona-1010x568.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Burna-Boy-Gbona-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Burna-Boy-Gbona-661x372.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Burna-Boy-Gbona-465x262.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Burna-Boy-Gbona-375x211.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released towards the end of last month, Burna Boy\u2019s soul-hefting jam, &#8220;Gbona&#8221; is the best we have heard in recent times. &#8220;Gbona&#8221; follows the trail of Burna Boy\u2019s globally celebrated anthem, &#8220;Ye&#8221; by consciously tapping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":17434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17433"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=17433"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}