‘I don’t think he does enough name dropping?’
Sam Bant is a Drama and Theatre student at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Without knowing anything:
I guess I can find it in myself to appreciate the message and video that comes with the music. The music itself doesn’t appeal to me, but the video… The video I would actually describe as a work of art. If grime could be a video, it would be this. It’s rough around the edges but that’s what it’s supposed to be and it’s completely accepting of that. I really enjoy the combination of pictures and videos from both modern and older contexts because it becomes a message that’s timeless. I particularly like at the end of the video where clocks and time become integrated in with the overall message because it could have so many different meanings: time is running out to change, there is always time to change or the message is timeless. All of these ideas can be applied to the video. Sorry, I got distracted with the video… But I feel as though the video tells a different story to the music although they sometimes entwine.
After being informed:
I’ve heard the name Akala, he’s a well-known Grime artist in England so I would have thought his music would have had more than a few hundred thousand views, but I suppose that’s the price of being in a niche genre. The politically driven song is so fast paced that the overall message is easy to miss, I’m glad that the overall message can also be found in the video. Sorry to talk about the video so much, but I think everything that Akala stands for is portrayed not only in the song but culminates in the video itself. My one criticism is this: I don’t think he does enough name dropping?