Together with a good number of other music videos, Inde symbolizes a brave new world for Tanzanian artistes -- who play second fiddle to no one. They are a veritable energy source: Swahili, the language in which they sing, is predominantly theirs (and as 'pure' as you want it delivered). The genre, Bongo Flava, is theirs. The threads? The sky's the limit to how they can put them all together. Fine threads, then, and fine tunes reveal both good taste and conscious grooming.
Their fan-base, which devours all this, is large and devoted and getting larger, and always has been. It gives them strength and drive. And, whatever the explanation, they seem more successful in their talent-related entrepreneurial pursuits than their Kenyan and South African counterparts. Indeed, more so than their own country seems to be still in the eyes of many observers, given its lingering socialistic past.
Overall, then, Inde is a winning song. The set is neat. The singers' and dancers' stage-presence is truly attractive. I see fine, attention-grabbing moves that really add flavor to the whole thing. This almost masks a consistently jarring noise in the background -- emanating, it might seem, from a tone-deaf source. But it's almost certain that this vexation is computer-generated percussion gone awry. One does frequently encounter this tendency to generate instrumental sounds in that way among musicians looking to cut stifling production costs. All that said, Inde definitely deserves a place among Africa's Top 40 Pop Songs of 2016.
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