PM News
By Nehru Odeh
Love her or hate her, Tiwa Savage is indubitably the queen of scandals. Not only does she assail our sensibilities with one raunchy video/photo or the other whenever she likes, she does so with panache, unapologetically.
Welcome to the life of Tiwa Savage, aka, Mama Jam Jam, aka Queen of Afrobeats, who set the internet on fire recently with her leaked sex video. The video elicited wild criticisms from the public, yet many celebrities also rallied around her.
Still, Savage’s salacious video is one of many that have fed our curiosities lately. However, the interesting thing about these lewd visuals is that not only do they trend on social media but have also become the trend.
The trend? Sure. The Isale-Eko-born, British-trained singer is leading the pack of a new class of celebrities, “sexebrities” or nudist forming before our very eyes.
Celebrities who don’t give a damn if their nudes are in the public space; if their privates are in the public. Celebrities who go all out to make sure that their nudes are out there.
Celebrities who post their nudes themselves because they have a morbid desire to trend. And if your sex video or raunchy photo has not gone viral, then you haven’t arrived.
And everybody wants to arrive. Everybody wants to trend. That’s why they are celebrities. That’s what inflate their egos and sell their “market.”
However, one interesting thing about these videos is that the dramatis personae are unabashed about them. Not only do they put on bold faces, they put those videos right in our faces in a manner that connotes a nonchalant attitude.
Indeed, celebrities posting their video, whether willy-nilly or not, is now the vogue. At no time other than recently have they derived joy from seeing their raunchy videos or nudes in the public.
Sometimes they release the videos themselves, as a form of owning their stories, of rebellion, of not giving the blackmailers power over them. Sometimes, too, they say it is a simple mistake.
Celebrities that have offended the sensibilities of many and entertained others with their raunchy videos or photos are legion. They include, Angel Smith of the BBNaija Fame, Cross of the BBNaija fame, Etinosa Idemudia, Nollywood actress and social Influencer, Toke Makinwa, radio personality and television host, Nengi of the BBNaija fame, Tacha, also of the BBNaija fame and Queen Salawa Abeni…
