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  • I Endured Tacha & Omashola’s “Chiwawa” Music Video So You Don’t Have To

    In my opinion, Big Brother Naija Season 4, AKA Pepper Dem 2019, was the most dramatic of them all. 

    At the peak of the chaos, Tacha and Omashola had their famous fight in Biggie’s house, and viral music producer and content creator, Lord Sky, flipped the video clip to audio, laid it on an Ogene beat and turned into a banging mp3.

    In 2020, Omashola, Tacha and Lord Sky brought some more housemates and friends together to do a music video for what Lord Sky had made. Money that could’ve been spent on COVID-19 palliatives for the poor was lavished on an abuse fest movie.

    https://twitter.com/TheLenny_/status/1694628390626545777?t=I6tfZpC5qhrduw-_D1bsrQ&s=19

    Lord Sky owned the song; Omashola and Tacha were just sample characters on the beat. So how did it get credited asOmashola’s song featuring others?

    P.S: “Chiwawa” is the song title and it’s just Nigerian for “Chihuahua”.

    Anyway.

    If you didn’t already know you shouldn’t take this song seriously, you’d know from the beginning of the video.

    Do I even need to say why?

    I can’t tell if this is a high court or a circus. But they’re in a court of law. Are the balls on the judge’s table there to signify that “the ball is in his court” regardless of who’s actually guilty?

    Instead of a mock dock, maybe Omashola should be in an actual court to answer for all the ridiculous outfits and photo shoots he litters his socials with.

    Don’t even get me started on the fake Navy officer who can’t tell a court setting from the air force. Or this restless court clerk.

    Then comes Lord Sky. We know he was the producer, but why is he cooking in a court? He even brought his piano and Yamaha H8 studio monitors along. Why?

    The song finally starts playing as Omashola and Tacha take their oaths. And we see that the video casts Nasty Black as a lawyer, only he’s holding a goat.

    I’m not really surprised to see a goat in court because only stubborn people get dragged there anyway. 

    Next, someone strolls a Chihuahua dog to the front. Confusion gets me for two seconds, then it becomes clear. Remember the animals Omashola and Tacha called each other during their classic fight back then? They’re about to have a refight through an actual goat AKA Lil Sholzy, and Chihuahua AKA Little P Bites.

    Little P Bites can fight.

    The court audience is shouting, but it’s not clear if they’re rooting for any of these fighters.

    Tacha, a defendant in the dock, is quietly thinking what in the fooling is going on. Omashola, a co-defendant obviously not conforming to court rules, is the one taking centre stage and causing drama. 

    Screams of “Barking dog, Chihuahua, nkiti, nzobu and anofia” mix smoothly with Lord Sky’s beat banging in the background.

    A human fight breaks out finally as lawyer Nasty Black puts his finger in the presiding judge’s eyes while his client, Lil Sholzy, sprays documents in the air. 

    Tacha’s calmness ends, and “She-goat, Chihuahua, anofia” is thrown left and right.

    Some of the audience are only there for the entertainment and are getting what they come for. While others focus on their female counterparts, ignoring the foolery around them.

    In the midst of the chaos, a dance talent show breaks out. Three guys in shine-shine clothing do a funny routine. Nasty Black and the reigning face of misogyny, Seyi Awolowo, join in.

    Female dancers aren’t left out.

    The judge joins the circus.

    Lord Skye knows the abuse fest won’t end until he calls his guys to set-up to entertain with music.

    When Lord Skye begins playing, the spirit of unity falls on everybody. Fight ceases, and they all become cordial.

    Lil Sholzy finally escapes and Nasty Black runs after it.

    Tacha and Omashola give each other a hi-five and become best friends forever.

    The video ends with a message on the screen as Omashola admonishes Little P Bites to stop tensioning Lil Sholzy.

    I want to use this medium to thank Lord Skye for being an incredible pacifier, even though he cooked the video clips into a viral hit in the first place.

    Thanks to the fighters, Tacha and Omashola, too. Finally, the two adults can rest from calling the names of animals in English and local tongues.

    Okay, enough reaching for today.

  • I became a Big Brother Naija fan in 2017, avidly following the show and live tweeting my hot takes on all the drama. It was even more interesting to me because a lover and I were watching it as a sort of shared activity, something we could always discuss and watch “together” even when we were not in the same city. 

    Last year, it formed an anchor in my life where all else seemed pretty shaky. This year, however, the show has failed to grab me even though I had been impatiently waiting for it to begin since last year. 

    Here are my hot takes as to why this is:

    1. Who do 2019 housemates remind you of from previous seasons?

    The housemates this year seem to have been painstakingly selected to fit certain roles created by previous housemates of the last two seasons of the show. For instance, Omashola this year fills the slot of “real and down to earth” Season 2 winner, Efe.

    We even have our token married man, Mike, representing Thin Tall Tony in 2017 and Dee One in 2018. Tacha seems to be the 2019 equivalent of the controversial CeCe from last year’s edition. 

    I feel like if the right type of pressure is applied to these characters, the ensuing drama would generate even more publicity since the previous season was such a huge success. These similarities in personality are actually interesting resources that could work to the advantage of the viewer ratings, but alas

    2. Fake evictions, surprise housemates…

    An all too familiar script: The script seems too familiar, with Tacha and Seyi held in a separate room just like Bisola and Bally were fake evicted in 2017, and Khloe and Anto in 2018. “Surprise” additional housemates were brought in – Debie Rise and Bassey, Ese and Jon in 2017, and now Venita, Elozonam, Joe, Cindy and Enkay this season. What’s with the formula, guys? 

    3. I don’t have a problem with recycling but…

    The Friday night games seem to be poorly recycled versions of themselves. In the 2nd season of the show, the Friday night games used to be exciting, competitive and engaging to watch. In the 3rd season, the games didn’t seem as interesting, but if you generally enjoyed watching the show, you would find the challenges fairly interesting to watch. This season, the games seem to carry on for very long because they lack that extra edge of an adrenaline rush.

    4. It’s a small world, but that doesn’t mean the house has to be.

    The house is TINY (I may be exaggerating here, but bear with me) compared to the one in South Africa that was used in the last two seasons. Let’s just say that the beds are pretty much all touching, the arena door is BESIDE THE REFRIGERATOR, and the kitchen is a colourful narrow hallway with a sink at the end. 

    5. I WANT MORE BROMANCE AND SOME HATERS

    There do not seem to be as many organic relationship dynamics as there should be. 2017 gave us an instant gang formed by Efe, Bisola, Bally, Marvis and Thin Tall Tony as well as an interesting attraction between Miyonse and T-Boss. Last year, we were blessed with the incredibly sweet bromance between Miracle and Tobi, and the Alex-Cece rivalry. This year, none of the Khafi-Gedoni, Seyi-Nelson, Mercy-Ike connections are as remarkable as those of the past years.

    6. All these Ads

    The ad breaks are super long. Some of the ads also do not look like they belong on the show – more like a simple promotion on Instagram for two weeks would have sufficed. 

    7. One last one…

    The housemates are not being pushed as much. Where are the psychology and sociology experts? The creative writers who have studied reality TV shows from all over the world? They should be watching the show and coming up with scenarios that would stimulate the behaviours of these people trapped in the same house together.

    These housemates seem to be relaxed with nothing new and different challenging them. 

    Does that mean I’m gon’ stop watching it? Never

    All that slander out of the way though, I love big brother; and I am still watching the show especially with Don Jazzy tweeting about it like an obsessed person. I find the idea of the show extremely interesting from a behavioural psychology angle.


    Guest post by Joy Mamudu