The ReggaeMania.com Top 10 Dancehall Songs of 2019

Song #9 from our ReggaeMania.com Awards ‘Top 10 Songs of 2019‘ dancehall-reggae chart goes to Jamaica’s beautiful Shenseea for her still warm 2018 release of ‘ShenYeng Anthem’. The interesting and colourful official video for this song sports over 6.4 million views, and the official Audio sports close to 7.5 million views on YouTube.

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Lyrically, Shenseea flows with her usual well-timed rhythmic patter, perfectly synced with its pulsating underlying riddim. Thematically, the story is not new or unique, we’ve heard it before, it’s just told differently, this time delivered with catchy, sexually confident and punctual style told exclusively from a Shenseea female perspective.

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‘ShenYeng Anthem’ has truly gone on to become an anthem, where the ladies in the dancehalls can often be heard shouting the lyrics of ‘ShenYeng’ louder than the audio system playing it. Ladies love this song because it’s comic relief and relationship reality, and they can relate to it; whether they’ve been the man-tief, or the victim of the latter, chances are if they live in accordance with a dancehall lifestyle, it’s something they can laugh about because they’ve either experienced it themselves or know somebody who has.

‘ShenYeng Anthem’ is also how our female dancehall artists can put on display their gangster sides, not by singjaying about or lyrically endorsing gun songs, but by coming out with a character or side that is cold and dispassionate, non apologetic about playing the role the ‘bad gyal’, one who is not afraid to shamelessly take another woman’s man, then keep him with a non-return policy.

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Shenseea has no problem with these women back-chatting her, but the physical fights and confrontations usually coming as a result of these actions are absent in her world, where a woman trying to test is unlikely. Because Shenseea’s ‘got it like that’, beauty, charm, youth, intelligence, talent, money, the competition has to humble themselves, look the other way, and ultimately, cant test!

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Shenseea’s international dancehall fan base will continue to grow as long as she continues to put out relatable songs like these for her mostly female fans. She has joined dancehall’s current elite league of female sexual-empowerment artists, with blatant, uncensored, relatable lyrics great for live performance, and music that allows women to understand, explore and be proud of their sexuality.

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Whatever Shenseea is doing seems to be working, because ‘ShenYeng Anthem’ has truly become that, an anthem for females to sing out loud in the dance, word by word, with smiling faces accompanying because the song is crafty and lyrics catchy. 

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The song is written ‘accurately’ because one of the passa-passa realities of our current and previous world dancehall culture, is that no relationship is safe or secure when you are a top-a-top living by a dancehall code. The lesson for ladies is – you gotta defend what you own, because it’s not a matter of ‘if’, instead, it’s a matter of ‘when’ somebody will try to ‘tek yuh man‘.

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Our ReggaeMania.com Award for the #9 spot on our ‘Top Songs of 2019’ reggae-dancehall chart goes to ‘ShenYeng Anthem’.  And guess what massive, she is one of only three artists with more than one song in our Top 10! Congrats Shenseea!