Maxy condemns bonyatsi, abuse in relationships

Chippa Legodimo | Wednesday December 10, 2014 14:22

 

The seasoned musician in her trademark silky voice lures the listener to her song that delivers a sensible message of reform in the track Bonyatsi. The opening lyrics of the track suggest, “A re latlheng bonyatsi wee / Ke lerato la diphifi / Ke ditiro tsa bobaba /Ka re bonyatsi bo botlhoko”.

Then the voluble musician shouts these words in the second verse, “Ka re nkile ka nna nyatsi.  Ke dira bohephela botlhe”.

Maxy goes on to demonstrate how often youngsters get excited when approached by elderly married men only to get frustrated when they return to their wives.

To emphasise the pain that ‘small houses’ put themselves through after choosing to be side dishes, Maxy added these lyrics, “Ke ne ke lala ke lela bosigo/ Ke robetse ka mangole/ Ke gopotse banna ba batho basadi ba bone ba tsile”. This song is not only rich in motivational lyrics, it also has inviting instrumentation of a dominant marimba keyboard, a roaring bass and a combination of snare drum and percussions. But Bonyatsi is not the only track with an inciting effect.  

The musician addresses a similar problem in the song Mma Nku in which a woman decries the fact that another woman (Mma Nku) is causing trouble in her marriage.

In a feat of fury, the betrayed woman calls her husband’s concubine all sorts degrading names. 

The various relationship problems are also addressed in the track Solly in which an abusive man stabs and beats his girlfriend and comes back to apologise for his behaviour, but the girlfriend is steadfast and rejects him right away. Then she cools the pace with some jazzy tunes and poetry in the track Mayibuye Africa, but still maintains the tswana cultural music style of clapping. With 10 albums under her belt and a career spanning 13 years, Maxy remains evergreen as demonstrated in the track Kelegetla in which she sounds like the teenager who broke records with the popular track Uwe a decade ago.