Selmor Mtukudzi refused to leave with new song “Kugara Namainini” – Nehanda Radio

Selmor Mtukudzi refused to go away when he released his new song “Kugara Namainini” which immediately divided the internet. A Zimbabwean woman should normally “know her place” and keep her mouth shut. But Selmor is singing about “Staying with the Stepmother.”

Some sections of the male constituency immediately suffered from constipation as second marriages again came under an uncomfortable spotlight. On the contrary, other sections licked it.

Mtukudzi who is married to Tendai Manatsa, son of the legendary Zex Manatsa, is an actor and musician.

Everything Selmor is touching right now is turning to gold. Or powder It depends on who you ask. But the numbers don’t lie.

The video reached 88,726 views in 11 hours. The video was directed by @NaxoFilms with the audio recorded at Manatsa Music Studio. At hour 12 it has reached 92,201 views before 24 hours.

Selmor sings that “My parents were divorced when I was little. I stayed with mom for a while. Mom and Dad split up when I was little. The father later said, “Let me take care of my children. I want to stay with them. That’s when I realized there was a stepmother.

“I had a torrid time staying with my stepmom. I was really having it. Dad was always working on the road. He left us with my stepmom. Life got really ugly. I’d sweep. I’d do the dishes. I’d wash the family clothes The other children were sitting.

“They had rice and chicken. I shared thick porridge with the dog. His children had rooms. I slept with maids in his room. Their children had a holiday. They left us behind. If something was missing, I was the prime suspect.”

If Studio 263 was Zimbabwe’s first soap opera, ‘Keeping up with the Mtukudzis’ is the next best thing. Daisy and Selmor’s relationship surely reached an all-time low. There are those who already knew. But now it is all but confirmed.

It was also the same week that Daisy Mtukudzi’s new Toyota Fortuner 2024 had an untimely accident at Warren Park Roundabout D. She escaped unscathed but the timing was jarring.

The scene was just a few hundred meters from where his son Sam Mtukudzi died almost 15 years ago. The haters couldn’t resist laughing at the old people.

Zimbabwean critics love to sing the cause of “disappointing” songs and albums where perhaps their silence should be golden. Songs take time to gain a following. Critics sometimes speak too soon.

Selmor has performed in many countries. And you don’t do that without the ability. A critic only needs to know that he doesn’t like some songs and that’s how the world turns.

Musicians usually have a vault of unreleased music. Selmor may have simply found the right time to release his music. It is also possible for a song and music video to be recorded in record time.

It has been said ‘If life gives you lemons, make lemonade’. Or simply “making the best of a bad situation”.

Increased attention is something all Mtukudzis (and Manatsas) live with. One of the girls has worked at TM before and people still talk mostly about Oliver Mtukudzi’s undoubted commercial success.

Their embarrassment of riches can be embarrassing in contrast to the modest but praiseworthy efforts of their children.

Some are okay with taking advantage of the attention to achieve their own ends. To silence Selmor is to silence the voices of stepchildren who face daily torment. Not all of them. But some Why are we so uncomfortable with this topic?

What Zex Manatsa lacked in riches (in later life) he made up for in paternal love. The singer of the greatest hits of the 70s and 90s successfully integrated into normal life after a breakthrough music career, no easy feat. He was not an absent parent.

There are videos of Manatsa hugging his sons and daughter all the time.

His son Tendai has not held back from showing love for his wife and talking about marriage and family. So transparent is the household that even strangers know their children by name, Ben, Hannah and Troy.

No subject is more boring to separated parents than talking about your own children, and no subject is more exciting to devotees. Selmor and Tendai have created an audience ready for family life in 2024.

Sometimes it can be monotonous or seem superficial at times to romanticize family life. I mean, we all love a stepmom family drama; for other people. Even the best marriages have their sad moments and pressures. For the Manatsas it has become an obsession.

But the unresolved issues that eventually occurred with the ‘Oliver Mtukudzi International Festival 2024’ gave Tendai an opportunity to show leadership in his own way.

He kept his lawyer in the midst of the drama and maintained his dignified silence, though he must have been offended by the grudgingly warm welcome from his second mother-in-law and Pakare Paye.

For some men, these insults will be carried to the grave. Tendai has a wicked sense of humor. In public he kept his mouth shut.

‘Rina Manyanga hariputirwi’ says the Zimbabwean Shona. Hide a problem long enough and it will rear its ugly head. Daisy Mtukudzi’s unanswered insinuations directed at her stepdaughters finally elicited a response.

Selmor and Sandra went to open up on DJ Ollah’s podcast. And now this!

Critics have invoked her inner devil and said, “Selmor only sings her father’s songs. Sing yours.” And the 40-year-old mature elephant matriarch (Samanyanga) has added to her own repertoire (that old songs now get bigger and wider airplay than before) with 2 songs in 10 days.

The first “Washinga Here” quickly reached almost 100,000 views. I wish there was a bridge for the songs. This part was the song that shoots up before the final chorus.

no I don’t agree with the critics who say “Selmor can’t sing”, the other review. Even the greatest of musicians has underwhelming songs and underwhelming albums. And that includes his father. Disappointing, from the point of view of some critics, that is.

“Wachinga here” played with the accepted role of women, kurambwa admits, (they accept divorce meekly.

The feisty ‘Kugara Namainini’ took critics by surprise. It’s okay to talk about other people’s family problems in private and even laugh. But it’s not good for the subject to know that you know.

Do Zimbabwean men normalize the abnormal? Many Zimbabwean men (and even women) enjoy ‘a mid-life crisis’ or as some call it ‘a mid-life betrayal’. That moment when they move in or move in with another woman or women.

It’s a twisted little world where the victims have to conform and live under the tyranny of a dictator or their new love. This, for some, has become “second nature”. Everyone else has to deal with it.

A good song resonates. A good song offends. “Kugara namainini” has been declared provocative. I never stayed with a stepmom, but the song has become an earworm.

If there’s any criticism, I think Selmor still hasn’t settled into the same keys that Oliver made her sing in the existing live videos. But it’s not a train wreck.

In itself it is proof of the lack of orientation of the situation of the step, just when it was most needed. Go to the figure. Perhaps mixing the producers regularly with their in-house producers and songwriters can increase the variety.

It’s an uncomfortable subject. Especially for some. The Mtukudzis constantly bring out our true colors, just like dad. Art imitates life. The best songwriters have to regularly answer the question “did this happen to you?”

Selmor has a perception problem with certain bearded people. His lyrics hit too close to home.

For children born into stepfamilies, the episodes have been particularly triggering. It’s like “it’s all coming back to me now,” as Celine Dion said.

The other camp operates with “ari kufukura hapwa”. Or “she’s revealing family secrets that are kept secret.”

Are we ready for a strong woman? Maybe not.