SHOW OF CREATIVITY ON BIG BROTHER NAIJA
The task demanded that housemates create two separate shows: a dance drama and a mini music performance by four different groups. The dance drama was choreographed by TallThinTony who is a professional dancer. Everyone brought out their A-game to the delight of viewers and approval of Biggie. The songs were original and written by housemates.
The drama depicted the struggles when climbing the success ladder and the various challenges faced whether from family and the society. TBoss played the lead character and for a Business Development Officer, she gave a good account of herself. She played the role of a young talented artist who wanted to pursue her dreams of being the next Pablo Picasso but got a lot of resistance from her father, her friends and even her community.
Many years down the line, she came back home, a successful artist and everyone including her father who destroyed her first artwork, came out to celebrate her success.
For a show that has received so much mixed reaction, the task did a lot to improve the perception of housemates by viewers. Lately, social media has been buzzing with various negative commentaries on how the show promotes pornography and indecent behaviour calling house mates simpletons for being willing tools in the hands of Biggie. This view was heightened with housemates’ favourite games of ‘Truth or Dare’ or ‘Confession’. It does not help matters that they also enjoy the kissing festival, forcing viewers to think less of their professionalism and more of their romantic and emotional sides. The housemates are from diverse professional background and have displayed various forms of intelligence during the course of the show. It may not have been a deliberate plan by the organizers of the show but it seems all the housemates have one form of talent or the other for the entertainment industry including music, dance, stage play, movies and production. A quick search on the internet produced music videos released by Soma, Bisola, Debbie Rise and Jon. Debbie Rise’s Cunny Cunny has over 56,000 views and Jon’s Uncle Suru has made viewers call on Don Jazzy, the boss of Marvin Re- cords to sign him up as soon as he leaves
the Big Brother house. There are some people who swear that CoCoIce’s Emi lo mo na sounds like a reincarnation of one of the late DaGrin’s production, who was known and loved for his brand of vernacular rap.
Today, at least one housemate will be evicted from the house. The tension in the house is however in double douse because Biggie annulled the nomination votes this week. The fear factor was again heightened when Biggie dared housemates in a superstitions and phobia themed task. A twist to the task was for housemates to eat an ‘abnormally’ prepared food, failure of which one of their secrets will be revealed to the house. As is traditional with Biggie, this is yet another challenge which housemates will have to ‘swallow’ literarily in order to avoid certain secrets coming to light. Someone like Tripple T should be careful before his closely guarded secret comes to light.