Stay Alive (The Ghost
Act/Kennedy Tareotu) Review
Composed and written by – Kennedy Tareotu
Produced by – Kennedy Tareotu
Back ups – Kennedy Tareotu
INSTRUMENTATION
It sounded like a movie soundtrack, there! Even from the
start. But what people didn’t understand is that it was passing a message.
Let’s get that message hidden in the instrumentation.
‘The night played its normal sound, the crickets chirping.
Two lads enter a car to drive off, a bomb hit just around, and gun shots next,
and the job is done. The lads are dead and the cops chasing the culprits while
the ambulance drives to the crime scene’
That is the message in the start of this song, and this
message was passed with Sounds alone, before the bringing in of an opera
oriented back up and a piano play afterwards.
The instrumentation was austere with few instrumentals.
SINGING SENSATION
At the first stanza of the chorus, I felt it came in too
sharp and left us with a lot of Pro Active feel (the ability of an act to
intentionally be solemn/ subtle or calm in a song to give it an emotional
quotient and to make it look professional). The first stanza seemed empty, only
one voice and then a second chorus came in adding a shallow back up.
The second verse got the song going. The lyrics was strong
and convincing, it was the reason to listen, then afterwards we had a little
climaxed chorus, with a shallow back up. I felt the singer nearly crying in
this verse, most especially when we sang ‘Stay Alive your mama said, stay where
you are’. That’s what his singing sensation gave.
The singer felt the need to be emotional and to pass a
message than to sing, even at the end of the song doing few scales and taking
little adlibs, I felt the holding back.
LYRICAL CONTENT
‘Stay Alive, Stay Alive.
You wake up in the morning; silently you wake your son.
You have him by your side; surely you are the one he
watches.
You get yourself a wife; a beautiful woman.
You leave her side to do wrongs; they are the once you would
make cry.
Stay Alive, Stay Alive
Stay where you are.
You may be just a young boy; riding his life to nowhere.
You fight for a woman or something small; with crack (dope)
in your eyes.
You feel on top of the world, like you cannot be dropped
(killed).
You’ve done so many wrongs, now it is time to run.
Stay Alive your mama said, stay where you are’.
This lyric is emotional enough, it passes two messages
telling a man doing so many wrongs to look back to his family and think if he
wants them to cry. He should live a life that would keep him alive.
The next topic fell on a young boy who lives his life not up
to expectations, he was disobedient and wayward, and he has done so many wrong
now he runs for his life. They are both dead in the song, that’s why the singer
was giving an end adlib that sounded like he was mourning or complaining or
crying.
Listen to the end and the sounds the singer makes, they
sounded painful, grieved and emotional.
COMPOSITION
This is a song which everything was done by just one act, I
have no idea why.
Composing a song like this might seem easy, but what made it
a complex song is the hidden messages and the profound lyric. The hidden
message in every chirp of the cricket to tell you it is night, to the sounds
and soprano of the opera.
The Composition is good, done by one head from start to
finish is scary, maybe it would have been better if they were more heads on it.
OVERALL REMARK
The greatest gift of Kennedy Tareotu is to write a song with
a superb message. That is what I see here, a strong message to everyone doing
something wrong that is life threatening, and all it said was Stay Alive for
your loved once.
A great sense of Touch.
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