Before you read please bear in mind that Kim K is not a porn star, she had sex with her boyfriend and the video became headlines, that is not a porn star.That said, below is an article by wale odunsi. i have no comment on it but please feel free to leave yoursThe Darey Concert: Paying Millions For The Presence Of A Porn Star - By Wale Odunsi
Okay, I hardly comment on
entertainment and showbiz news. I prefer to stay on the national
issues/political terrain which are my jurisdiction. However, I could not hold
back the temptation to do a piece on Darey’s ‘Love Like A Movie’
concert.
No doubt, the LLAM held in Lagos was
superb; star-studded, proper management, lights, sounds et al. In fact not a few
have adjudged the show the best of its type in recent years. The ovation and
positive review was not unexpected considering the artiste involved. Dude is
good-looking, knows his onions, greatly talented and business
oriented.
About
a week to the D-day, news went viral that renowned Reality TV girl, Kim
Kardashian, will be in the country as a co-host of the event. At 8:20pm of
Saturday, February 16, 2013, she flew in.
Trust
Nigerian blogs, before her arrival, no other news existed. Even major news
tabloids caught the bug. At least for three straight days, it was Kim this, Kim
that.
I
have no beef about that. I am certain the organizers splashed plenty six or
seven figures that sorta hype. And for the publicists, heavens once again beamed
a wide grin at them; they must have smiled to the banks, perhaps their closets,
depending on where they keep their monies.
After
every every, Kanye West's heartrob and baby-mama to be, left the shores of Naija
just when the concert was about to start. Initially I thought she developed flu
and had to quickly jet out. Soon after, I learnt she was actually invited to do
what I like to tag ‘Cameo’ (a short appearance by a popular figure in a music
video).
At
the Eko Hotels venue, the Kim simply posed for pictures with some of our local
and a few international champions who clearly were star-struck; you could see it
in their eyes and on their foreheads. I even spotted the wife of former Cross
River governor, Onari Duke with her
LLAM
number one guest was kind enough to open the show, spending a total forty
seconds on stage. That was it…Chikena! In all, she was there for three-quarter
of sixty minutes. By 10:20pm Sunday night, she was aboard a plane back
home.
The
major (if not only) flaw of that outing was the presence of Kim. If it is true
that she was paid hundreds of thousands of Benjamins (aka US Dollars), it would
indeed be appalling. We are talking about someone who shot her way to the
limelight via the now infamous sex-tape which anyone can still download on the
internet for free! So for the sake of money, we’ve sent our morals, decency and
integrity on vacation.
Just
few weeks ago, Miss Kardashian-West was paid $200,000 for a trip to Ivory Coast.
She then proceeded to donate a meager $2,000 to a local orphanage, an amount
less than one percent of her total financial terms (including flight, hotel and
security charge).
Obviously
Darey and his team wanted a name that would pull the crowd out of their homes.
Question: Was that the best they could come up with? Whatever happened to female
celebs known for their and hard work and larger than life persona: Alicia Keys,
India Arie, Adele among many others.
As
a humanitarian, it is sheer stupidity to think that a clique forming big boys
would dole out all that money for below-an-hour attendance of an actress whose
only movie to her credit is a pornographic motion picture. It would have made
more sense if she stayed throughout the event, to at least justify the huge
amount spend on her appearance.
Charles
Novia rightly noted and I wish to re-echo his statement: There was absolutely no
need for Kim Kardashian at Darey’s concert.
@WaleOdunsi
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