And who said every girl should have a “little black dress” in her closet? “Little black dress” what??? It’s time to shove that to the back burner and unearthed the very fashion or should I say the “VERY PRINT” that a chunk of us wouldn’t have been caught dead in it.
Lately it’s actually “au contraire!” I’m sure I’ve a lot of you wondering what this lunatic is ranting and raving about. AND YES!!! I’M RAVING ABOUT THIS!! READY???? BRACE YOURSELVES, AFRICAN PRINTS!!!! TADAA!!
Must I say lately our African designers have stepped it up a notch, naaah scratch that! A 100 notches with their innovativeness, ingeniousness, creativity and flair.
I’m gushing over what I’ve been spotting people wear lately. Did y’all see Amber Rose African inspired genius “ness” of an ensemble she wore back in Ghana? This is just an example of the new CRAZE in town. JUST FAB FAB FAB!!!
The much publicized second edition of the Vodafone 020 Live Concert could not live up to the level of the biggest party of the year, like the organizers promised patrons of the event during the publicity campaign.
In spite of challenges right from the planning stages, the organizers managed to make it happen inside the Dome at the Accra International Conference Centre, last Tuesday September 20, 2011. If the standard set by Vodafone and Roster 2000, with last year’s maiden event where Nigerian twin singers P-Square headlined, is anything to go by, then comparatively last Saturday’s show was a flop.
The over 4000 capacity auditorium was fully packed with a very wide stage set up with six large projected screens (two left, two right)projecting what was going on to the crowd, and two other projected effects in Vodafone colours as well as pictures and names of artistes performing.
The 020 Live logo was designed in a sizeable round shape decorated with red lights, on the background of the stage. Lights, sound, microphones and the general technical stage set up were professionally done, but the artistes especially the Ghanaian artistes who were supposed to use the stage to entertain the crowd, flopped shamefully with the exception of VIP, and to some extent R2Bees.
As usual, the show which was supposed to start at 7pm, started some minutes to 9pm. Before the main show started, Nii Aryee Tagoe, DJ for the night had a big party with the crowd who danced the night away with both old and new songs. “Muge baya boys” 5Five, kick started the night with their normal appearance, with all three of them in an all white out fits. Apart from dancing “Azonto” to their own popular songs, the Adabraka based Hiplife group had nothing extraordinary to show on stage.
The flat performance by Vodafone Icons winners RnM’s added nothing to the show that could remind the audience of their performance. Amber Rose who only came to showcase her dresses and the beauty of her body was almost non-existent on stage. Her inclusion as an MC for the show seemed absolutely unnecessary as co-MC Eddy Blay single handedly took control of the show.
I will not waste my time bashing Vodafone Ghana for importing such a cheap person-Amber Rose into Ghana to host their concert. After all, I am not a shareholder and I do not or ever intend to become a Vodafone customer because of reasons like going to give the money they will make from me to folks like Amber Rose. But I think shareholders should thoroughly question whoever hired this ill informed Amber Rose.
What I will not accept as a Ghanaian/African is for uninformed Amber Rose with little or no knowledge about Ghanaians to come and put out false statements as made in the video interview below. At least Vodafone Ghana or whoever hired her could have educated her a bit on facts about Ghana.
Did I hear Amber Rose say there are no middle class people in Ghana? And it is either people are extremely rich or extremely poor? I am a living testimony and s true proof that, she is totally uninformed about Ghanaians.
I am not extremely rich and neither am I extremely poor to be living in gutters or dirt as she puts it. I am a middle class Ghanaian and my family has always been middle class. There are several middle class Ghanaians out there living comfortably and not in dirt.
After almost eight hours of music by the various artistes lined up for this year’s ‘020 Live Concert’ organized by Telecom Giant Vodafone, expectant fans were somewhat disappointed – not at the performance but the organisation of the concert.
The Dome of the International Conference Centre was filled to overflowing with lots of people standing outside, hoping they could come in to catch a glimpse of what was happening or maybe ‘not happening’ in the over 3,000 seater capacity Dome.
The hype ahead of the concert drew the numbers but show could not live up to expectation with patrons expressing their frustration every now and then at what could only be described as ‘being taken for granted’.
The likes of D-Cryme, VIP, and 5Five moved the dormant audience a bit when they were called on stage to perform but music lovers who gathered at the Dome are yet to be told what happened to the likes of R2Bees, D’Banj and lead artiste Trey Songs when it was their turn to come and entertain the audience.
The privileged few (Amber, Trey, Uche and D'banj) enjoying the red carpet as Lazy of VIP tries to eat into their glory
When will this stop? This is utterly disgusting and the earlier something is done about it, the better. It seems these corporate giants are not only taking the ordinary Ghanaian for granted, they are also stretching their ill treatments to the media and the various local artistes in Ghana…
Sometimes, I do not understand some of these media men in Ghana, if event organizers cannot accord you guys with the minimal respect deserved, why bother and help them to promote and sell their shows?
It is time our local artistes start to also add value to themselves and DEMAND that, at least certain fundamental respect and honor be given to their talents…
From the photos above & below, how come Amber Rose is ‘poshly’ sitting on some Red carpet with Trey Songz and D’banj whiles our Ghanaian talented and much respected musicians like V.I.P and co have been pushed to the back as if they are some goddam rotten groundnuts.
If the show was all about the stripper Amber Rose, Trey Songz and D’banj, why then did Vodafone bother to bill the local artistes?I am beginning to get tired of how disrespectful these concert organizers treat our Ghanaian celebrities…
Mobile Telecommunication Giant, Vodafone, left a sour taste in the mouth of some journalists when it openly discriminated against Ghanaian artistes billed to perform at the 020 Live Concert alongside International acts Trey Songz and “Kokomaster” D’banj from Nigeria.
Vodafone deliberately treated Ghanaian local stars as though they were nobody and worshiped the foreign artistes like thin gods.
At the pre-event launch on Tuesday September 20, 2011, at the Golden Tulip Hotel ahead of tonight’s big show, Vodafone officials clearly exhibited their disregard for Ghanaian musicians. The sitting arrangement at Golden Tulip’s Upper Terrace said it all, with the three foreign stars -Trey Songz, Dbanj, Amber Rose- and a Vodafone official fully decorated and branded with Vodafone colours. The four sat on confortable red seats, with a 020 backdrop limited to just the four of them and a red carpet just for the four of them.
