Music. How much I love music. I believe everyone around me knows my love for music because it’s not something I’m shy of making known. I’m the kind of person that as long as you’re singing my jam, I would sing along. Even if you and I are having issues. After all, you’re the one I have issues with, not the sweet song.
There are people who will just prefer to nod their heads and seal their lips tight because they don’t want to sing along. They might really want to take part, but for one reason or the other, they’ll prefer not to join in. How boring!
Besides books and movies, my top love is music. That is one piece of art that will always take my soul away. And thankfully, my interests are not limited to one specific type of music. Depending on my mood, I can listen to afrobeat, RnB, fuji, highlife, gospel… whatever it is I want.
Music always helps me relax, and when I want to think or get creative, music helps me get into the mood. This especially works for me with songs in foreign languages. It could be Japanese or Korean songs, or even Spanish songs, although most of the songs I know in these languages, I learned of them through movies. But with these songs, I’m able to think while they play in the background. I simply enjoy them and let my mind do all the work. It’s always so riveting. Hehe…
So, when it comes to Christmas, you can bet that I have songs that really help to put me in the mood. I enjoy listening to them to the point that I can have them on replay until I get tired of listening. That’s just how riveted I can be to good music.
The one I love the most is not even a specific song, but an event that happens annually in my church. It’s called the Nine Lessons and Carols, I so much love that program because it’s a night dedicated to singing Christmas songs, all around us everywhere is decorated in Christmas colors, and we’re all dressed nicely and singing along.
The choir don’t sing one song, they pick their songs from a catalog and every year it could be different. Personally, I don’t care what they sing. As long as it’s Nine Lessons and Carols, you can bet that whatever it is they sing in there, I would love it and sing along until the very end.
Anyway, coming to the songs I’m fond of, I can say anything by Boney M. I grew up listening to them and many of them are stuck in my head to this day. Back when I was a child, I can remember during the holidays like this, my father would put their songs on replay. The entire album would play, run out and he would start it all over again. Back then, the only thing that stopped the music was when power was interrupted.
And now, I still love them. They did good music and despite how much time has passed, I still enjoy them. Also, when I listen to them these days, I’m taken back down memory lane to my childhood. Back then, Christmas was always loud, memorable, and immensely enjoyable. When I think of those days, I realize that we’ve come too far to go back to who we used to be. And I don’t just mean as an individual, but as a people and nation at large.
The Nigeria of those years is very different from the Nigeria of today. So, Boney M’s music reminds me of what life used to be like and what we lost. I see it as a reminder to let me know to enjoy every moment I have because just like that, it could be gone. And there will be nothing I can do to change that.
So, that’s my favorite holiday music, anything with Boney M’s name on it!
