#sho madjozi
Text
SHO MADJOZI - "CHALE"
youtube
With David, we revisit an old favorite...
[8.33]
Will Adams: Immensely fun, from the ensemble cast of sound effects -- mad scientist lightning zaps! big fat FM bass! gym class whistles -- to the call-and-response hook. Like any good party, it makes you lose track of time, and you don't even notice you've been grooving to the same song for six minutes.
[8]
Crystal Leww: Where Tyla felt like a showcase for amapiano's potential to showcase something sexy, "Chale" is Sho Madjozi's showcase for the genre to show energy. This feels faster than amapiano really is -- I'm really struck by the fight atmosphere created during the chant of "You wasn't there when we was shooting in the gyyyyyyyym!" So much more charming coming from Sho than Fucking Drake.
[6]
Frank Kogan: Sho Madjozi and the rest of the music are lifting each other (as opposed to back on "John Cena," when she and the beats were more in combat). The lyrics seem ambivalent about fame -- an ambivalence that was all over her last video, "Toro" -- but in this vid she's totally at ease with the fans, inviting them and their selfies into the dance. The sound of gqom/amapiano is a suspense-film buildup, rising tension yet a groove you can relax in forever, "Chalé" doing it about as well as it can be done.
[9]
Nortey Dowuona: TBOY Daflame opens the song with an ominous synth riff, then punctuates it with bouncy log drums Sho rides expertly. When they take over the mix and even slide off key, Sho slips out, and as a soccer whistle enters the mix, tinny and shrill, it takes the center. The drums drop out except for the hihats, and Sho pops back up, her chorus bigger and prouder, a sharp aphorism from the Friggin Canadian suddenly alive and a gleeful taunt. "Chale" blurs until it becomes a brick, hard, solid, frozen in the mind.
[10]
Tim de Reuse: Under the horror-show drone of a single hazy supersaw, she flexes, relaxes, paces, and chants, but only just enough, lest she appear to try too hard; her own voice is a sparse, percussive element, the rest of the space filled with a meaty, developing beat. An excellent strategy to self-celebration: make the party do the work. There's no other way you could get away with a track like this being six minutes. I could listen to a loop of that shuffling, syncopated bass-breakdown for sixteen.
[8]
Micha Cavaseno: Nearly every Sho Madjozi single feels like the synths have to be close to as playful as her own rhymes while also seeming like they're lurking in an unwelcome manner. It's kind of astonishing as to how many songs a person can make that sound close to tricksy without the artist coming off as anything more than bright and sunshiney. Somehow you don't even think Tboy Daflame's freakout breakdown of subs and whines is anything more than fun & games in spite of its industrial calamity. Can't begin to describe how confounded that makes me, and how fun it is to be so taken aback. Maybe that's the point!
[7]
Joshua Minsoo Kim: Something I didn't know I needed: an amapiano track that functions as a contemporary American jock jam.
[9]
Brad Shoup: I know it's provincial, but I keep trying to figure how the WNBA can put this into a commercial while ignoring the original Kobe joke. I love how Sho's blithe and kinetic, and how you can hear Tboy Daflame mashing the pads.
[7]
Ian Mathers: There are a lot of different little sonic flourishes I love here, but the mad scientist electricity sound might be my favourite. Then there's the bits where it keeps sounding like a Squarepusher song is about to break out, and how good both the title refrain and the "shooting in the gym" bits are every time they come back. I was genuinely shocked to finally notice it's over six minutes long -- the whole thing practically flies by. You pull a salt and pepper diner on me with this one, and I wouldn't notice for a good long time.
[9]
Katherine St Asaph: Infectious joy in a generous portion.
[9]
Alfred Soto: The walls of this single keep expanding with each second, and the combination of ruminative, brassy, and mysterious that I love in good Neneh Cherry and Rosalía doesn't quit. When it yields to beeps and chirps, it reaches peak sublimity. No, I wasn't there when she was shooting in the gyyyyyyym.
[8]
David Moore: 2023 was the year I managed to drag myself out of a nasty little pit I'd been growing uncomfortably accustomed to, and subsequently I started listening to and writing about music again. My lodestar was Sho Madjozi, an artist I had brief but serendipitous encounters with in the past through the Jukebox and then Tom Ewing's People's Pop Polls. On "Chale," she augmented the deluge of amapiano that I was starting to understand at a technical level with an infectious pop call-and-response chorus, inviting the whole world to the party with a personalized golden ticket. And there was Sho Madjozi herself in the center, incandescent, always on the verge of bursting out in laughter, and you could feel yourself breaking, too, like you're sharing an inside joke. I carried the "shooting in the gym" line like a talisman guarding me against the hundred leaden Drake songs I would encounter later, hiding like sneaky little fungus trolls in my playlists. The song came out and February, and I never stopped listening to it all year, beaming, hardly believing my luck: I was finally open to something wonderful, and this was the gift I received.
[10]
[Read, comment and vote on The Singles Jukebox ]
#sho madjozi#music#pop music#music writing#music reviews#music criticism#the singles jukebox#Youtube
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
youtube
2023 Loosies: Sho Madjozi — "Chale"
Sometimes you hear a song from someone you've never heard of before and it's just instantly a juggernaut. The mad scientist zaps! The bit where they're eating icecream mid-dance! The Drake interpolation I enjoy more than any Drake song I've ever heard! The bits where people want to get a photo with her! How much fun it is to shout "Chale!" along with them! It's practically an imperial phase compressed into a song.
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
Notes on amapiano
Here's everything I've written about amapiano this year, with lots of embeds of songs I've liked so far (the first few songs are from 2022). Come for the tunes, stay for the hilarious anecdote Robert Altman shares about a conversation with Stanley Kubrick.
1/25/23
youtube
I've been underwhelmed with the avalanche of amapiano I've heard in the past few years after falling in love with the sound in 2020. I keep feeling like I'm intruding in the middle of a party and don't understand how to join in the dance. But now and then a standalone track gets its hooks in, and there's something about the synth hook and percussion accents on "Nazoke" that gives it a live jam quality. This is practically the opposite of what I love about other amapiano, whose more synthesized sounds approximate something close and warm without fully moving into the realm of the acoustic (my standard-bearer in the genre is still Semi Tee's 2020 LP release I'm Only Tweenty One, which I don't think exists in a physical copy, but I went ahead and made a CD of it, album art and everything).
Amapiano builds on a deceptively simple template: the foundation is almost always a shaker playing sixteenth notes at about 112 BPM (though the accent of the pattern can vary, the shaker is usually steady and omnipresent), and each song then layers in its own palette of sounds and voices, everything in percussive service of the groove. That standardized base and consistent tempo lets you click different songs together like LEGOs, though amapiano is also known for relatively long song lengths.
Amapiano is in some ways the flipside of baile funk, which isolates strange rhythms and sounds and timbres and ideas and forces you to reckon with what the fuck they're doing in relation to each other in sequence -- it's Eisensteinian montage. By contrast amapiano is more like pointillism: you're not thinking closely about any single point, and from a distance everything takes on a dreamy texture that it would lose if you inspected too closely.
Amapiano artists will often take warm acoustic percussion and pretty, playful vocals -- all of them bringing a soft swing feel, somewhere between dancing and swaying -- and pit them directly against much harder four-on-the-floor house elements (synth blares, jagged squelchy bass hits) put off at a seeming distance, like the distant echo of a car alarm going off way down the street that happens to be in the same key as the song you're listening to in your headphones. The palettes artists use and the way they layer everything in vary from song to song and artist to artist, but because the foundation is so similar across the songs, changes in the genre over time can be subtle enough that it almost feels like you're watching evolution at the individual genetic mutation level.
youtube
And there are tons of cool vocals in amapiano, hard posturing and playful posing becoming indistinguishable (as they are on this song -- or, if not indistinguishable, a kind of multiple perspective game where you can see it both ways) as it all washes out in the sound bath along with everything else. And heck, sometimes you get a no-foolin' xylophone, too, not even the thing most people think is a xylophone but is actually a glockenspiel. Or you get a synth that sounds like a vuvuzela. Why not?
2/3/23
youtube
The first 2023 amapiano track I enjoyed, this one entirely in English, and maybe not coincidentally one of the rare amapiano vocals I've heard that threatens to grab a spotlight for itself instead of sharing equal space with, say, those synth samba whistles -- a tone that drives me crazy when my kids play it on the keyboard, here mixed to evoke birdcalls in a rainforest.
2/8/23
youtube
Utter joy. Sho Madjozi has been on my radar for a few years: was covered rapturously at the Singles Jukebox and had shone in the People's Pop 4-Letter-Word tournament with "Huku." This jumped out immediately as a frontrunner for song of the year so far. (Maybe a bit early to call it.) The style is interesting -- seems to be finding a midpoint between the harder house beats of gqom and the limpid immersion of amapiano. A party. Should be huge.
2/15/23
Rihanna should make an amapiano album.
2/24/23
youtube
Upbeat amapiano featuring one of the titular "2 peers" on my favorite amapiano album of 2021, Semi Tee & MDU aka TRP's Tales of the 2 Peers.
3/15/23
youtube
youtube
Two amapiano tracks that go for a lush, blissed-out sound that I associate with Sun-El Musician—more cinematic, fewer surprises buried in the mix. Joshua Minsoo-Kim calls “Kwelinye” the amapiano song of the year so far, and Mellow & Sleazy the most important amapiano artist right now. The second part might well be true — everything I’ve heard is great — but I’ll admit I have a hard time making distinctions when the music is aiming so squarely for beauty (it’s something that keeps me at a distance from Sun-El Musician’s work, which I admire more than I love).
3/22/23
youtube
Picking representative amapiano on a weekly basis is becoming a daunting task, as I could easily make a whole mix of the stuff each time. (Doesn’t help that I can’t seem to tell the difference between the stuff no one is listening to and the stuff everyone is listening to.)
This one stood out, both its distinctive shuffle and the singer’s mellow rasp: as the hummed hook intensified (“mm-mm, mm-mm”), from the backseat my youngest asked “what are the kinds of noises they’re making in this song, and why would someone make those noises?” I think he was taking notes; I didn’t have an answer.
3/28/23
youtube
Lots of music scenes are almost impossible to follow on Spotify, as the current stuff is uploaded first to YouTube, so Spotify is a, er, spotty indicator of popularity. Amapiano is a big exception, as playlists with variations on the phrase “Amapiano Grooves” have almost everything I’ve found in other places online. This is my requisite amapiano of the week: some millennial R&B girl group vibes in the interplay of the singers.
The amapiano track I was most surprised by this week was Major Lazer’s attempt to get in on the sound.
youtube
They get it wrong in telling ways. They build a spotlight for the singer, changing focus right and left to direct our attention. What you end up with is overwrought production with a melody line that sounds weak instead of diffuse; it can’t handle the spotlight.
Amapiano’s strength is in letting everything cohabitate in surprising ways. It’s like a Robert Altman film—he’ll let everyone play together in a series of long shots; your attention has to find its own resting point. It all seems intentional, but you can’t feel Altman guiding your attention. There’s a great interview where Altman describes trying to explain to Stanley Kubrick how he got an incredible shot, in the opening scene of McCabe and Mrs. Miller, of Warren Beatty lighting a cigar in the dim murk of the evening—a shot Altman had filmed personally while his cinematographer was away.
Altman: “He [Kubrick] said, ‘but how’d you know you got it?’ I said, ‘I just assumed we did.’ And he had a hard time understanding, because Stanley really liked to be very precise about everything, and he wanted to be exactly proper.”
I doubt Stanley Kubrick could ever make anything like a Robert Altman film for the same reason I doubt Major Lazer could ever make a good amapiano song. They figure you must have to do something to get it.
#amapiano#music writing#music criticism#sho madjozi#kabza de small#major lazer#robert altman#2023 music#Youtube
7 notes
·
View notes
Video
youtube
💖🌟🌸🍿 Dumi Hi Phone (Official video) - Sho Madjozi & PSc/p>
#youtube#Sho Madjozi#Dumi Hi Phone#music#culture#dance#sa#rsa#artist#artists on tumblr#artists#traditional dance#traditional attire#africa#energy from the southern hemisphere#africa to the world
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
#Justice Mukheli#Sho Madjozi#African artists#South African#African women in music#African photographers#African Music
7 notes
·
View notes
Video
youtube
Sho Madjozi - Chale
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
Nigeria Independence Day Celebration Mix Live mix by Teck-Zilla AFRO BEATS @ Club 183 Independence Day Party Hosted by DJ Moti Cakes Powered by ROG Music Africa
5 notes
·
View notes
Text
Sho Madjozi!!!
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
Sho Madjozi - Toro Ft DDG (Prod by Tboy DaFlame)
Sho Madjozi – Toro Ft DDG mp3
Sho Madjozi is out with this brand new 2022 audio mp3 song tagged “Toro” featuring DDG. Toro by Sho Madjozi is a production from Tboy DaFlame. Check it out below and kindly share.
Also Download: Mxrcus – Barcadi (Amapiano Download MP3 2022)
Enjoy this track below and kindly add it to your favorite amapiano music playlist.
View On WordPress
1 note
·
View note
Text
Nandy ft. Sho Madjozi - Kunjani MP3 DOWNLOAD
#Nandy ft. #ShoMadjozi - Kunjani MP3 DOWNLOAD
The Tanzanian music sensation, Nandy steps in front of the thousands of people in the music room with a brand new smash song labeled “Kunjani”
Apparently, the song features the South African serial hitmaker known by her stage name, Sho Madjozi whose verse completes the song.
Furthermore, the song is released for your enjoyment. It doesn’t matter you are a fan or not. If you are a fan of good…
View On WordPress
1 note
·
View note
Text
"Huku niambia kwamba wewe unanipenda" 💔
1 note
·
View note
Text
instagram
0 notes
Text
[People Profile] All We Know About Makhadzi Biography, Career, Boyfriend, Networth, Scandals, Age
[People Profile] All We Know About Makhadzi Biography, Career, Boyfriend, Networth, Scandals, Age
Makhadzi Biography, Career, Boyfriend, Networth, Scandals, Age
Makhadzi is an artist and recording artist of South Africa whose music career has been on a upward path due to her persistence and dedication to improving her skills on a regular basis. The combination of these strategies has put Makhadzi among the top South African artist lists and the accolades that go with her. When she was a…
View On WordPress
#and Mampintsha.#Charma Girl#Gigi Lamayne#Jah Prayzah Mr. Brown#Jerusalema#Makhadzi#Mayten#Prince Benza#Sho Madjozi Moonchild Sanelly#The Team Mosha
0 notes
Note
the coach for John Cena ❤️
ꨄ ᴅᴀɪʟʏ ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴅᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴄᴏᴀᴄʜᴇs ꨄ
"𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘢."
Requested by: anonymous ❤
If anyone wants me to add a specific coach/es or map, feel free to ask, I will add them one by one <33
#just dance#just dance 2024#just dance 2024 edition#games#just dance 2023#just dance 2023 edition#spotify#for you page#for you#just dance fandom#just dance time#daily just dance coaches#dailygaming#daily gaming#daily post#dance#dancing#just dance edit#just dance coach#just dance coaches#just dance 2021#jd21#jdu#season 3 festival!#just dance unlimited#jd2021#jd+
19 notes
·
View notes
Text
Tagged by @spacesweepers (thank you!), shuffle your repeat playlist and post the first ten songs, then tag people!
My playlist needs serious updating so a few of these I actually haven't really listened to in a while because I skip them as soon as they come up but
1. The Hell of It - Paul Williams
2. The Sun - The Naked And Famous
3. Pursuit of Happiness - Kid Cudi, MGMT, Ratatat
4. A Quiet Life - Teho Teardo, Blixa Bargeld
5. The Beautiful Ones - Prince
6. Chale - Sho Madjozi
7. Nancy Boy - Placebo
8. Sans contrefaçon - Mylène Farmer
9. Work - Charlotte Day Wilson
10. King Kunta - Kendrick Lamar
(I just realised this post said to shuffle the repeat playlist instead of your personal playlist, maybe it would have been more accurate had I done that but too late)
I tag with no pressure @firewalkwithmedvd @swabianhotpocket @magical-my-ass
8 notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
kirsextein
khai
zucchinihutjr
This is It
ryleeswhitebriefs
Rylee's Tighty Whities
argosinthevoidzz
kevin fanperson (she/they)