Renowned Afrobeat artist, Asake, popularly known as Ololade Mr Money, faces severe backlash for perceived disrespect towards Christianity in his newly released song's video.
Shortly after unveiling the visuals for his song 'Only Me,' the Christian community expressed displeasure over certain depictions in the music video.
In the video, Asake, along with backup singers and dancers, portrayed themselves as priests conducting a mass in a Catholic church, adorned with angelic rings on their heads.
Renowned relationship adviser, Solomon Buchi, and numerous Nigerians took to social media to criticize Asake's choice of props.
Buchi labeled Asake's actions as "disrespectful" and questioned why Christians continued to support his music. In his words:
“Asake keeps disrespecting the Christian faith in his music videos. Dramatizing giving the Eucharist, robed up in priestly regalia for a music video that has no connection with Christianity is disrespectful.
In his Bandana video, he depicts black goats trooping into the church, with cloven tongues of fire above weird men. Asake, I think, is a Muslim. Why doesn’t he go above and beyond to embarrass his Muslim faith in this same way?
Why do Christians even listen to these musicians who bluntly disrespect Christianity?”
Additional reactions towards the new song, ‘Only Me’ by Asake and its disrespect to Christianity
Pearlpelay1 said: “Christianity is the most disrespected religion especially in Nigeria. Asake is not even a Christian. He can’t try with his own religion.”
etzsylva stated: “This is actually disrespectful to the Catholic Church. Christianity is so disrespected 🤦🏾♂️.”
Bidal4Life opined: “Y'all are hypocritical. The same people telling Davido not to Fold that time are the ones getting riled up now🤣. Life comes at you so fast.”
MrChimaobikanu added: “Christianity has suffered! Christians need to start being more radical like their Muslim counterparts.”
temiszn stated: “These are the issues.”
Watch the video below …
Asake – only me 💵 pic.twitter.com/UnMVyyr42E
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