When I saw the video of Grammy Award winner Burna Boy’s last performance in Lagos and the vitriol he passed on to his fans, my mind went back to an article I read a couple of years back.
They suggest that gaining social status makes people less interested in others. “You can think of attention as a knob that you can turn up and turn down. And when you are low in status, you turn that knob all the way up. You’re paying attention to everybody and trying to learn about them. If you are high status, then your knob is turned down low because it doesn’t really matter- you do whatever you want. It just makes you more aloof.
Here is an artiste whose performance thousands of Nigerians paid to come and watch. These people defied considerable odds. Money is not only scarce, but getting fuel into your car is a herculean venture. That is not to speak about the risk of insecurity in the country. People disregarded these to be at your show, but you cannot even be grateful.
He rained down invectives on people who may have nothing to do with his grouses about claims that he shot someone at a nightclub or that his mother danced in Fela’s band, as if this was a crime. He even invited the divine to ‘punish’ those who paid to watch his show! It was the height of any conceit. Then, this young man was so self-absorbed, he could no longer feel anyone’s pains.
Not that the image of the artiste is not important, it is only to affirm that the interest of a considerate artiste could align with the people at this point.
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