Shenseea to pursue pop genre after achieving five-year goal in dancehall

Racquel McKenzie

2 years ago

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Dancehall royalty Shenseea has pointed out that she will now pursue the genre of pop, now that her five-year goal in dancehall has reached its fruition.

This revelation was made during an Instagram live over the weekend where the ‘Lick’ artiste pointed out to her Shenyeng army that while she will not be leaving dancehall, it was never her intention to become dancehall queen.

“I told myself I’m gonna do dancehall for five years. I have given myself to dancehall. I’ve given y’all hits upon hits, upon hits, upon hits, for five years bro, and I am not leaving dancehall because I could never,” Shenseea noted.

“But I have such a bigger dream for myself ever since I was a child. I am going to achieve it because at the end of the day, it is my life and it is what I want, and it is what I’ve always dreamt of, and I’m gonna get that for myself,” she added.

She also pointed out that it is her intention to become an internationally acclaimed artiste that incorporates dancehall culture into pop music.

“By next year, I want to be international, and when I say that I don’t mean just as a dancehall artiste, but an international pop star who incorporates the dancehall culture and my accent while majoring in pop music because that is my first love,” she noted.

Shenseea further noted that dominating the dancehall sphere is a now ‘been there, done that’ thing and she is now on to bigger and greater ventures.

“Like my friends can tell you, everything that I have achieved, I tick them off because I said I was gonna achieve them. I’ve ticked that off. Now it’s time to go to the next level,” she said. “I’m never gonna be an artiste that you can say, “oh, I sound the same” because y’all do be killing female artistes especially, saying they have no style, they sound the same, they got the same flow… some sh*t to put dung woman rather than say, you know this person to excel at this. Instead, you say they can only do that so it doesn’t entertain you,” she exclaimed.

“Dats what you can’t say about Shenseea and you would never. So, please don’t even complain that I’m versatile,” she added.

So far, the artiste has achieved major accolades both on and off social media, including clocking over 2,000,000 followers on Instagram, becoming the first woman in dancehall to collaborate with Hip Hop hottie Megan Thee Stallion, for the hit single ‘Lick’ which garnered over 3.4 million views.