Music review: Fik Fameika is tedious on Sikiwa
His lyricism is childish, and I feel like I am going through a potent IQ lull listening to him.
Fik Fameika. Courtesy photo
Music Review – Sikiwa – Fik Fameika
I often have debates with one or two people about Fik Fameika’s music.
These two people happen to be girls and they are both violently opposed to my views on Fik Fameika’s music. My views? I find him frightfully tedious.
His lyricism is childish, and I feel like I am going through a potent IQ lull listening to him. He mostly sells vibes. You really have to be struggling in life if that is all you like about a song.
I like to think myself neutral as a reviewer, so every time I get the opportunity to, I give a musician a whirl.
I gave one of the latest tracks from Fameika, a song called Sikiwa, a listen. I listened as neutrally as possible, and I can be really neutral, friends – I used to listen to Sweet Kid’s music without leaving the room, after all.
Sikiwa is…I think the word I should use is ‘interesting’. The lyricism is still useless – Fameika writes his music like he is the cool kid in S3 that is in the bad books of all school prefects.
He is also still pushing vibes, which I find tedious.
But I will give Sikiwa one thing: damn, that’s a good beat. I haven’t heard a beat this good in yonks! The production approach gives the track a legitimate street anthem energy that works pretty effectively.
It also makes it easier to ignore Fik Fameika’s lyrics, which is probably the safer option if you still want to have brain cells in the long term.
I found myself bopping to this beat at 10am on a Monday.
Heck, the bed even has a brass section on it. Synthesized, yes, but still, a nice touch.
Fameika spends most of the track dropping gems of wisdom like ‘Only the strong survive.’, and ‘Don’t kill my vibe’, and you obviously have to bear with him and wince through that garbage. But all things considered, it’s a great beat.
Is this what I have been missing? I haven’t been focusing on the beat, when it comes to Fik’s music? Fik Fameika mostly appeals to the youth (I am, thinking 15 – 19-year-olds) and I imagine they may not be the most decerning fans out there. I can see them bopping to a beat from him if it was this sick.