Afrobeats singer Ikuforiji Olaitan, popularly known as Oxlade, has called on Nigerian artistes to make their songs longer instead of keeping them short.
Naija News reports that he made the appeal on Thursday through a post on his 𝕏 account.
He wrote: “Bring Back 5 Minutes Songs.”
The post generated some reactions as fans took to the comment section to share their opinion.
Artu Samak: “Tbh, I grew up thinking a song should be 4 minutes long. Until dem Davido and Wizkid came. Then Mayorkun, kizz Daniel and co na reduce everything to 2-3 minutes 
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Jaranjh: “I & my sis still had this conversation recently. Dem era of 2face, Sound sultan Dbanj, Wande coal p-square, Asa weird mc, style plus Olu maintain Those era was crazily good bro.. I won’t lie. But these days, Marge two songs together E go still hard before e reach 5mins.”
Chevko: “Nobody stop you from singing a full album in one track ooo”
Woley DM: “Finally speaking up. Na soso 2 minutes songs these days. OGs like Dbanj, 2baba, Psquare did not sing like that so where all of una learn am from?”
Oreofe Oluwa: “Please, bring it back. All these short songs that lacks substance is frustrating asf”
Soundzofficial: “Everybody dey find replay value, 2mins songs, no head or tail,zero substance, sad.”
UrchIce: “I swear man, you could go for a 30 minutes run listening to about 8-10 songs now for a 30 minutes run you could listen to over 15 – 20 songs.”
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