Mavin - Adaobi song Review

Mavin – Adaobi (Don Jazzy, Reekado Banks, Korede Bello, Di’ja) a Kennedy Tareotu Review.

INSTRUMENTATION

Taking a vast note on the instrumentation that I would tag Afro-high life, has to stick to a pattern, one that rejuvenates African style and provides great African rhythmic stance.

In this beat we got half of both, half of a great Afro sound springing out from African percussion and a great shallow mixture of high life from the progression of rhythm.  

The drum line and percussion were the great effects on this song, but an acoustic play was significant and a quiet bass that you could hear once in a while. This instrumentation is key to the song success.

SINGING SENSATION

‘Do you understand the formula’, might be the first sentence you hear on this song, but what makes this song extraordinary is the combination of quite some vocalist. But how would I grade them all?

Number 1. Dija was fantastic from the start, giving way for Don Jazzy to play with the song a little with chants I feel that was unnecessary.

Number 2. Don jazzy has never failed with his voice, his emotional quotient is always high and once again I heard that swift steady emotion of a great voice springing in the chorus, making the chorus the best part of the song, from lead to back up.

Number 3.

Do you know…
The way you dancing….Adaobi
The way you shaking your body dey make me go crazy
Do you know….
How you dancing….Adaobi
How you shaking your body dey make me go crazy
Girl I want the formula….Adaobi
Sweety baby ya na na na na….Adaobi
Girl you pass the formula….Adaobi
Olomi ya na na na na….Adaobi
I know you get the formula
Sweety baby ya na na na na….Adaobi
Baby pass the formula
Olomi ya na na na….Adaobi.

This verse was the first, was averagely felt.

You’re looking for the formula
From here down to south africa
You know I got the formula
I know you like the formula
You’re looking for the formula
From here down to south africa
You know I got the formula….Adaobi
I know you like the formula….Adaobi

This bridge by Dija was abit convincing from the start, until it seemed like she was short of words and touch. She couldn’t use her octave properly and could have gone up and change the rhythm when singing exactly the same thing. The word formula came too many times without well presentation, but she was the only female in this song, her voice made way for a brighter and a needed side filled with men, it brought the song a great mixture.

Verse
Almighty formula
Baby girl see I love your formula
Them say Reeky Banks you popular
No be lie you dey burst my medula, my medula….on a regular
I go like to give on a regular
I no mind make I burst your circular
That thing wey dey burst my medula, my medula eh
Quadratic equation ma re o
Baby girl you scatter my brain o
I’m loving the way that you shake o
My lady, my lady
Quadratic equation ma re o
Baby girl you scatter my brain o
Am loving the way that you shake o
My lady o, my lady o

This verse is the best verse in this song, that’s simply because it was totally different from every other verse. It was a rap-sing, with great arrangement of syllables of words and sounds, and he didn’t ever repeat a vocal progression. But let’s take one lyrical issue here. ‘No be lie you dey burst my medulla’. I have over heard this sentence, and I always wondered what it meant, who made the words out. This phrase usually means ‘You make me run crazy, or let me say you burst my brain, make me mad’, unfortunately the Medulla oblongata is a very small part of the brain stem linking the brain and the spinal cord, it cannot burst, but it can get cut or detached, and if it does get pierced or bust or tampered with, it wont get you crazy, t wont turn you to a psycho, because it controls involuntary actions like breathing, heart rate and blood pressure. so let’s assume your medulla was busted, you won’t be able to breath, you aint going crazy that way, you are heading to the grave. So this term might be off point, but we understand what he was trying to say.

Verse
Ada Ada Ada
O sweety Ada….Ada
Omo see me see Ada….Ada
Baby okwu Ada….Ada o
I teach the formula o
Doro fine girl
You are a doro fine girl
You are a ah
Abi be ko o
Ah, be no ni o
Ada fine gan o
Ah, fine no ni o
Abi be ko o
Ah, be no ni o
Ada fine gan o
Ah, fine no ni o

This verse is also a splendid one, it is the next big verse after the last, because it followed the same lane the last did, as he changed progression thrice, making his part not predictable.

This song had good vocalists in it, and I have to commend that the mixture and performances is spectacular even besides each shallow mistakes, but Don Jazzy’s chorus still took the best phase of the song.