Why I Wrote Ashawo and Who It's Really About - Fireboy DML

 Fireboy opens up about controversial track

   

Fireboy DML just recently released his album Playboy and there is one song that is causing quite a bit of conversation, it's called Ashawo.

The lyrics of the song say:

Mutumina / Wetin dey prah? / Wetin dey sup oh, I want to yarn / You too dey prah, you too dey form / Shey make I chop oh, before e sha

No be my fault oh, na shayo / Na all of us be ashawo / If I cheat on you I'm sorry / And if you cheat on me no worry

I apologize / Say I do anything for your back, baby / When I no dey mad / I go sharparly go and come back / No be my fault say I famous oh / Make I no cast for lagos oh / If the girls dey call my name I go gbe body oh

No be my fault oh, na shayo / Na all of us be ashawo / If I cheat on you I'm sorry / And if you cheat on me no worry

Well, Fireboy DML is talking more about the song now and in a new sit-down with Apple Music, he opened up about what inspired the song, what the song is about, and who the song is about. Here is what Fireboy DML said.

Speaking about the song Ashawo with Apple Music, Fireboy DML said about it:

Basically, it’s not an excuse for men to cheat, but it’s also the realistic point of view explaining why men in Lagos or people in general, people in relationships, cheat on their partners. It’s just me saying, ‘It’s not my fault. It was the alcohol.’ I think it’s just something that I know that a lot of men in Lagos are going to relate to because the dating scene in Lagos, at the moment, is a big mess. Everyone has gone crazy. I think COVID kind of really messed everyone up. So, it’s the perfect song for the perfect Lagos or Nigerian young couple. Like, I’d say, the realistic way to look at things. I’m singing this song purely out of the mindset of an honest young man who’s really true to himself.

 So the ashawo Fireboy is talking about in the song is men and Fireboy is saying that men are ashawos because of the alcohol that they consume so women should not vex. Hmm. What do you think about that? Do you agree? Because personally I don't know if the "realistic point of view" is that most men cheat purely because of alcohol. There are many men out there who cheat but don't even drink so will we also blame it on the shayo for those ones? I don't know.

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Gist Source: vocal.media