{"id":3708,"date":"2022-06-24T11:55:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T11:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:01:55","slug":"queendalyne-nigerias-bad-gyal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=3708","title":{"rendered":"Queendalyne, Nigeria\u2019s Bad Gyal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On<strong><em> \u2018Prayer\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, her previous song, Nigerian singer Queendalyne introduced a sound called Afro roots-reggae, which blends sounds from her country with Rastafarian rhythms. For <strong><em>\u2018Bad Gyal\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, her new single, she went for a dancehall feel.<\/p>\n<p>Like <strong><em>\u2018Prayer\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Bad Gyal\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is produced by Tuffgig Music Empire, a Nigerian company with offices in New York City.\u00a0 Queendalyne said she wanted to show her versatility on <strong><em>\u2018Bad Gyal\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will say that I have a variety of musical packages within me and that\u2019s because of my ability to digress to\u00a0different genres. However, I write songs based on how I feel, depending how the fans want it or based on the season,\u201d she explained. \u201cFor instance, if it\u2019s a dance season I\u2019m up for it, so that\u2019s basically how it goes. I\u2019m not a one sound artist. It\u2019s versatility for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With <strong><em>\u2018Bad Gyal\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, Queendalyne mixed traditional Nigerian beats with dancehall to give the song a cosmopolitan feel. It is a formula, top Jamaican producers and artists, like Sean Paul and Tarrus Riley have experimented with.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Prayer\u2019<\/em><\/strong> was a change in direction for Queendalyne. Most of her early songs were pop-oriented, similar to Rihanna, Beyonce and Nicki Minaj, her biggest musical influences.<\/p>\n<p>She is pleased with response to Afro roots-reggae. \u201cI was pretty satisfied, knowing it\u2019s my first with my record label, Tuffgig Music Empire. So, I received a lot of responses from people abroad, people within, it was overwhelming and quite positive,\u201d said Queendalyne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On \u2018Prayer\u2019, her previous song, Nigerian singer Queendalyne introduced a sound called Afro roots-reggae, which blends sounds from her country with Rastafarian rhythms. For \u2018Bad Gyal\u2019, her new single, she went for a dancehall feel. Like \u2018Prayer\u2019, \u2018Bad Gyal\u2019 is produced by Tuffgig Music Empire, a Nigerian company with offices in New York City.\u00a0 Queendalyne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3710,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}