To the best of my knowledge, gospel music is largely about hope–instilling hope in humans in otherwise hopeless situations. This is something good, and for quite obvious reasons: who doesn’t feed off hope? Hope is that one thing that, every single day of the working week, pushes oppressed workers of the world to look on the brighter side of things as they wake up each morning to return to their mundane jobs. You don’t know when and how, but somehow you know that one day, things will get better. Many people, haters of course, have tirelessly advised, sometimes even warned me to steer clear of gospel music in my music ambitions, arguing that not everybody is cut out for this thing; that if I insist, then I “will not reach far” in my music. But who says that anybody can claim monopoly over gospel? If anything, when Jesus says yes, who can say no? When Jesus says yes, nobody can say no. In fact, if Jesus says yes and you say no, then you are anti-Christ. Who is the anti-Christ? People whose bones will be used to barbecue other lesser sinners in hell when that time of reckoning eventually catches up with you. As you all may well be aware, a good song is all but the intro. When a song’s intro is that tight, it renders all the other aspects of the song absolutely useless, because the point would have been driven home. By now, those of you that might be familiar with my music prowess should know where this is all leading to–my all-time favorite music chorus, the one that defines what this thing out to look like: Let us be like a soldier and defend our area. Honestly, when you hear that intro, does it leave any doubt in your mind as to where the singer is headed with their song, what they intend to preach about? But this is not to say that When Jesus says yes, nobody can say no is not worth its salt as a song chorus. Of course it is. If it were not, how would I have even known that such a song exists in the first place? Another reason I’m cork sure that When Jesus says yes, nobody can say no is a super fly song chorus is because Ugandan comedian Anne Kubiryaba Kansiime lifted it word for word to describe her sold out Comedy Jam performance at the Kigali Serena Hotel the previous weekend. Which then begs the question; If Anne Kansiime can “steal” this line to describe her success on the comedy show, then who are you to deny the well-known fact that this chorus rocks? Stop living in denial. In conclusion, a powerful intro packed with messages of hope is all that I need to claim to have crafted a good gospel song: There is a land, far, far away Where there’s no night, there’s only dayLook into the book of life, and you will seeThat there’s a land, far, far away…
