Desperation? … Darey shamelessly copies Timi Dakolo

If you listen to Timi Dakolo’s Wish Me Well and Darey’s Pray For Me, you’ll realize you don’t need to have the intelligence of a brain surgeon to realize that one song inspired the other, or to put it bluntly, one song copied the other. The two songs are about a guy who decides to leave his village for the big city in search of the Golden Fleece. While Darey has just released his own Pray For Me, Dakolo’s Wish Me Well has been out there for some time now so it’s obvious whom the copycat is here. Though musicians regularly copy themselves, those who copy don’t really do as well as the originators and copying also portends something more ominous: that the copycat is desperate to give his career a needed lift so will throw shame to the winds by copying. Though Darey is a popular brand that has been around for long, and his brand has been further helped by his father who was a respected entertainer, he cannot lay claim to having been as musically successful as small boys like Wizkid, Olamide, Davido, or even senior boys like 2face and D’Banj. He has tried his best, though, has kept at it and has been silent for some time now since the video of his Special Fever, despite co-starring Rita Dominic, didn’t do at all well. And like MI went back to the drawing board after the failure of his Chairman video and came back stronger, it seems Darey also did so, but his copying comeback cannot be compared to MI’s however. Funny enough, Dakolo, whose song has been copied, is not all the way up there musically, but now with artists copying his style, it’s obvious that he’s on track. And listening to the two songs, it’s painfully obvious that Darey’s is a very poor imitation of Dakolo’s own that’s very well-researched.