Over the past few days, I have been overdosing myself on Naija music for a change. Maybe it has something to do with my sojourn to the south west for abit earlier in the month and all the fun I had. Who knows, who cares? Anyway, I was reading around, and I stumbled on a post on http://ayenithegreat.wordpress.com about Styl Plus, and I could not agree more.

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... The boys not only remained stubbornly in Abuja, the headquarters of politics; they started churning out badly conceptualised, badly directed videos that did little to enhance their status (months after the songs had damped down from the radio charts)... STYL Plus remained unreachable, unavailable and high- up- there. With ... no banging new music to speak for them, the once-upon-a-time R&B saviours soon went into relegation, taking the reserve seat while the likes of Psquare, Faze, 2face, and 9ice reigned supreme.

Now, just like Eedris Abdulkareem, the boys appear to be realising their folly, and are making efforts to return to the centre stage. Unfortunately, a new album- their third- has come out nothing but a woeful attempt, and a painful embarrassment to the reputation they have struggled hard to build.

For the full article, click here.

Right from when I saw the CD cover of their new album, It struck a sore note in my mind. What the *&*@? Maybe 5 years ago, that would have been okay for a Boney M come back! Honestly, I don't know what went wrong. Styl Plus emerged on the Nigerian entertainment scene at a time when there was NO ONE doing what they were capable of. It was a time when if you wanted to instantly 'burn you cable' with a girl you were getting fresh with, tell her you don't like the boy band. I remember when they had a show in my University, which is actually the only real show I attended in the University, the girls went beserk while me and my guys were fully beefing. (School days oh!) And even though I was a very bitter critic of Nigerian music then, I could not help being impressed by their musical creativity, even if they soaked up their vocals in autotunes.

Now, several years down the line, it simply hurts me that they seem to have missed the mark at a time they should be strengthening their rein on the Nigerian R&B scene. Oh well, lets see what happens next.