{"id":41846,"date":"2019-04-05T16:09:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T15:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/why-you-should-anticipate-simis-omo-charlie-champagne-album-2\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T22:06:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T21:06:53","slug":"simi-omo-charlie-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/simi-omo-charlie-champagne\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should anticipate Simi&#8217;s Omo Charlie Champagne album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23499 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simi-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simi-1-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simi-1-1-759x531.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simi-1-1-661x463.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simi-1-1-465x326.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simi-1-1-375x263.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><b><\/b><span style=\"color: #2d9cdb;\"><b>The evidence is on display all over the Chemistry album with friend and frequent collaborator Falz. Going back further, one finds the Simisola album, glorious in its class.<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LAGOS, NIGERIA \u2013 It is November, and the Davido Music Worldwide act Mayorkun has an album slated for release. Somehow, an Internet brag leads to another and a celebrity FIFA match on a PlayStation 4 console was set. His challenger? Simi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That game was perhaps more than just a FIFA game. It was PR, yes, for the forthcoming Mayor of Lagos album. But also, more importantly, it was a collaboration prospect. We all thought they both had a song in the bag (they still might). After all, \u00a0Mayorkun had proven himself to be a strong songwriter, a master of the pun. And Simi? Across all genres, she stands as an artiste with an incredible pen game. The evidence is on display all over the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chemistry<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0album with friend and frequent collaborator Falz. Going back further, one finds the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simisola<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0album, glorious in its class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since then, the act, signed to Steve Babaeko\u2019s X3M Music has followed up with a number of singles of which some have hit wondrous heights. In between these, are two events still fresh in the minds of everyone who saw it happen: the Simi Live in December and her marriage sometime this year to heartthrob Adekunle Gold. Well, the second didn\u2019t play out before many eyes but with the Promise video, we get an idea into the love Simi and Adekunle Gold gets to share. In a way, this is an exceptional roll out for the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omo Charlie Champagne<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0album whose release date (19<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0April 2019) she announced a week ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gT69SMs486c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her music does not exist in a void like some of her contemporaries. Alongside an impressive lineup of which Asa is a team captain, she has been able to sell music as a female in a male-dominated industry without an overblown sexual persona as the pitch. This would mean that naturally, her unique experiences since the release of her last album would be manifest in\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omo Charlie Champagne<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The stories won\u2019t exclusively be hers but one thing is sure, they\u2019ll be stories. And there\u2019ll be laughter and joy and they\u2019ll be a melancholic piano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Such is the nature of the previous and though I\u2019m all for artistic growth, the core of what makes an artiste can seldom be changed. The\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simisola<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0album has done what few albums in recent Nigerian music history has not been able to do: \u00a0all fourteen songs have been \u2018break out stars\u2019, even though put together, they make a compelling case as a collective of subtle contextual purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Songs like \u2018Gone For Good\u2019 and \u2018Take Me Back\u2019, two songs apart, find Simi on opposite ends of a relationship. On the former, she laments the return of a lover and on the latter, she pleads to be let back into his life. At this point, Adekunle Gold does deliver a remarkable verse, with both their voices melding into vocal bliss towards the end of the song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23497\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simi-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simi-1-759x505.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simi-1-1010x672.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simi-1-661x440.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simi-1-465x310.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Simi-1-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the identification of purpose, \u2018Remind Me\u2019 and \u2018Original Baby\u2019 works. While the latter (which got a 2Baba feature on the deluxe edition) might seem a treatise on the preservation of self, it is also in tandem with the opener, in which Simi sings about how differently she reacts to the need of different people. It is human nature but it also begs the question: do we stay ourselves even then? These are questions Simisola doesn\u2019t ask directly but in the course of listening and living through the album, her philosophies become one with you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A dominant philosophy in her music is play: fun Simi is best Simi, it seems. Even in her day to day life, on her social media accounts, she presents vignettes into the humour of her real-life person. Fun Simi gets the largest share on her Simisola: \u2018Aimasiko\u2019, \u2018One Kain\u2019, \u2018O Wa N\u2019be\u2019, \u2018Angelina\u2019 and \u2018Hip-hop Hurray\u2019 are all so infectiously fun you might find yourself grinning or laughing wildly at any of the stories which you\u2019ve seen or lived through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a song like \u2018Love Don\u2019t Care\u2019, she takes on the Nollywood esque theme of forbidden love and turns it to ballad, her voice touching places within the listener only the best of orators can achieve. Smile for me, too, is defiance. Over rolling drums and soft piano notes, she asks: \u201cwould you fight for me, even if na Hulk Hogan?\u201d That\u2019s the essence of love which Simi personifies and emboldens. She wants you to dare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This critical appreciation also comes with the commercial goods for\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simisola<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with its win in the prestigious Album of the Year category at the Headies. Also, some months before the album\u2019s one year anniversary Boomplay announced it as the first album by a Nigerian to reach one million downloads. This really should be the hook for the new album: we did it before, we\u2019ll do it again. However, should Simi opt for a quieter rollout, (unlike Mayorkun\u2019s) the Simisola album simply is enough genius on the discography to earn our ears on the 19th \u00a0of April.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #2d9cdb;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2d9cdb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/love-is-contagious-wurld\/\">Love Is Contagious, and so is WurlD\u2019s music<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evidence is on display all over the Chemistry album with friend and frequent collaborator Falz. Going back further, one finds the Simisola album, glorious in its class. 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