Walshy Fires Take On The Reggae Genre

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Precluding the release of Major Lazer’s latest album Music Is The Weapon, group member Walshy Fire had a lot to say about the genre with sound points. One of them was a critique of how music (coming from Jamaica) is grouped as reggae. Which, to be fair, doesn’t sound like anything from the greats like Peter Tosh or Bob Marley. Walshy suggested for people to come up with another name for this brand of music. And to move away from calling it reggae.

“I have said it, maybe for the last two years now.  I think what the guys are doing now is not Reggae.  I already think that a new name is gonna come up.  I am encouraging everyone to find a new name for Reggae and a new name for Dancehall, for what they are doing.  And mainly because it doesn’t sound or feel the same and therefore, why bring it under the name of something if it’s sounding and feeling different?”

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