Rapper Tinie Tempah fears the closure of nightclubs around the UK will not only kill dance music, it may ruin your love life. Young people no longer have a place to dance or flirt. He’s back with new song Energy hoping to get people moving again.
Tinie Tempah has gone back to 90s clubland to get a new generation moving and hopefully finding love.
New single Energy is a throwback to peak rave culture, at a worrying time when places to dance are closing at an alarming rate. It means people can no longer flirt or find their potential future partners like they used to.
Pass Out star Tinie told the Daily Star: “I’ve been thinking about the fact that we’re losing a lot of our nightlife in the UK.
“I get it, culture’s changing and society’s changing. However, as a father, I think of people’s social interactions. The night club was maybe where you had you first got flirty with somebody for the first time.
“And you learned how to kind of talk to someone and get someone’s number or deal with a bit of rejection and learn how to kind of bounce back from that, or just have confidence in what you were wearing or your appearance.
“So I wonder how how people are going to be affected by such a dramatic change moving forward.”
Club closures are also damaging the music itself says the rapper: “We were able to birth so many exciting genres out of these spaces and bring so many people from different backgrounds together, back in the day they’d have all these jungle and drum & bass raves, you’d see like white, black, Asian.
“In these kind of safe spaces, everyone would come together and have a drink and start hugging each other and rave into these records. And so when you think about the power of music and the power of these spaces, it’s a shame to be losing it, I’m trying to highlight that with new music.”
In recent times Tinie – who has seven UK No1s to his name – has moved into property, TV work and other ventures as an entrepreneur.
However, Energy is proof music remains his prime concern.
“I’m quite fortunate and blessed to have been in music for as long as I have and to have ventured into other things,” he reflected.
“And I still feel like there’s an important message in my music. I feel like there’s a frequency in my music, because ultimately, I do believe a lot in frequencies and elevating your frequency to the highest level and the fact that I’m able to play my music in front of hundreds, sometimes thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of people, and it makes them feel good and it brings joy to them. It’s something I never want to stop doing.”
However, he’s not fussed about giving Taylor Swift a run for her chart money: “ I’m no longer putting myself under the pressures of the traditional music industry. You know – you have to win you have to win this award or you have to be the most popular at this. No, I’m just a artist and I put out art and if you like it, you like it, if you don’t, you don’t and the cream rises to the top.”
Tinie Tempah is on tour: Glasgow (Nov 18), Birmingham (17), London (18) and Manchester (21).
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