NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Lady Zamar Spreads Hope and Sunshine With Her Latest Single “World’s Gone Crazy”
Amid the chaos of the world and the overwhelming sense of despair from the hardships that exist, Tembisa-born dance and house vocalist Yamikani “Lady Zamar” Banda has been in the thick of it. After a long silence, punctuated by ‘All (I Want)’ in 2022, which wasn’t without criticism from the public, Zamar picked up the microphone once again and released her latest single, ‘World’s Gone Crazy’.
Running for almost five minutes, the SAMA-winning songstress’s newest offering is a cross-breed between dance music and R&B, glued togdether by percussions, airy guitars, and simmering bass thumping underneath. Light-hearted and groovy, the production grants Banda a license to build the thematic base around hope. From the theme of hope, Zamar constructs a love story damned by the inevitability of life problems and uncontrollable variables.
The first and the second verse narrates the story of a woman in love at a time when that is anything but conducive to the development of the relationship. Throughout the song, the singer croons reassurances, letting her love interest know that even in the hardest of times their love will still triumph.
With her soothing voice and her youthful vocal delivery, Zamar rolls back the hands of time and teleports to an earlier phase in reality when things were simpler. Back to the ‘Collide’ and ‘My Baby’ era. Her sound is rejuvenated as she extracts more formulaic ploys from her core sound: dance music. The result is an era-trapped song with a familiar texture. This, after all, is a standard Zamar song. However similar ‘World’s Gone Crazy’ is to her past works, the song isn’t derivative, and with the industry saturated with the sound of piano, the dance direction helps seal the freshness of Zamar’s artistry.
Although Zamar hasn’t been as active as in her prime years, ‘World’s Gone Crazy’ is a flare whose brightness denies any speculation that she might have lost her touch. Her understanding of her craft and the application of her soul to the sound are sharp as ever. If the world’s truly gone mad in her eyes, the calmness and joy in her spirit don’t let it show.
