I am become No_, destroyer of canons

god I'm really going to get flamed for this, and I may just be in one of my moods, but fucking hell, Fela Kuti really is the Bob Marley of African music - look, I used to think he mostly lived up to the hype and praise, that he was one of the most consistent artists ever, even if certain albums of his I didn't love the way I was "supposed" to, but I started to cool on him a few years ago, and started to prefer his 80s work, perhaps out of contrarianism, but I didn't have all of his albums readily available to sample and I still mostly conceded his worth. Now that I have like three dozen disks of his at my fingertips on Spotify, I'm so not impressed - I started with Expensive Shit, then moved on to my RYM friends' second favorite, Sorrow, Tears and Blood, and now I'm on MY old favorite, Shakara, and fucking hell, this shit is SOPORIFIC and SLUGGISH and LETHARGIC my god - it's not funky, never let anyone convince you that Afrika 70 were funky, and it's not "fiery" and it's not. really. that. good. I'm probably just being harsh because Fela is The Only Musician to Ever Come From the Entire Country of Africa Wait What Do You Mean Africa Is Not a Country? to so so many people, but I'm getting the vibe from his twelve-minute-long songs that I get from Morton Feldman's six-hour-long compositions: I guess I would like this more if I was sleep-deprived or on codeine. Also if something would happen. I know it's blasphemous, it really really is and maybe I'm just an uppity ignorant cracker, in fact, yeah I am that, but still, I Officially Do Not Get the Appeal of Fela Kuti and I'm Going To Throw Out the "O" Word in 3...2...1:OVERRATED. Phew. Glad to get that out of my system. Maybe afrobeat is just not my favorite African genre? Actually, it's certainly not, but I never realized how little I liked it compared to highlife or soukous or fuji or tizita. Even the 80s stuff sounds mostly unengaging now. Pity. At least it's not Zam-rock, though, 'mirite?