TREND WILL ALWAYS END

The last three alphabets have murdered it, buried it and celebrated its funeral ( Trend), indeed it will end one day, overtaken by another crafted modernised version, and it will mar the success of the former.

Every trending thing has come to stay for a while, and it will be built on because innovation is not stopping by to say hi, but to keep radiating over and over again. At a time, radio was known to be the type that used waves. The development began in 1893 with Nikolai Teslas and it was wireless radio communication which was given birth to at St. Louis Missouri. Subsequently,  it was recorded that Guglielmo Marconi was the one associated mainly with the emergence of radio and was awarded in 1986 by the British government. Radio came all the way from a modification that is not mobile to the one that can be carried about for instant message of the media. The same thing is applicable to television, where the former black and white television was without remote control gained a superficial freedom by Peter Goldmark who brought colour to it as a sign of innovation on the then black and white TV.

When I was younger, my father would show us his university days pictures, and I was always wondering why he was always carrying afro and with a trumpet trouser when he no longer leaves his hair to grow a bit now, they call it skin. But I got to know that afro was the trend in keeping their hair at that time. There was a time men were keeping afro, a time skin, a time punk, a time gallas the style associated to a footballer, now another way of keeping hair is trending for men.

Taking a keen look at the controversial beings that are liable to change at any trendy thing pose to them,  the women. Damask is a clothing material that was trending in the olden days, but it went down the hill, until a time it was resurrected and people especially women took to its invention before it eventually buried itself. Weaving was trending for women in the olden days,  as well as afro, but the idea of hair extensions emanated from the White men which the blacks welcomed with smile on their faces. Hair extensions were formerly made with a rubber like material until recently that brazillian,  peruvian, human hair and the likes gainfully took over the women's world, thereby calling any old made material in the trending weaves synthetic.

It is operation go natural now,  and it is trending, spreading like an inferno taking over a city. Ladies are seen mostly with no earrings and accessories,  case that was rare at a time. Most of the ladies now carry dreadlocks to grow their hair to become natural again, born again virgin hair (winks). Almost every trouser tip is seen rolled up now,  indeed it is still trend. The initiators are best being given credit to, but most fashion initiators are not mostly recognized because one person must have done such in the past, but it never gained recognition until the time a known personality initiates it once again. And to the truest means, people are often driven by their most respected icons, and whatever they do becomes style for their fans.

Let's take baking for example, there was an old way of baking cakes and the likes until the advent of oven. Woods came, charcoal visited, sawdust peeped in, then stove stayed for some time,  though still alive, and then gas cooker for our food to be made perishable. Though some use solar,  but it has not yet become a trending take for people. A kettle was used to boil water at a time,  now electrical appliances have taken over manual way of processing.

The Post office gained recognition in those days, your love letters, letters to loved ones were always taking time to get to its destination, thanks to it anyway because it helped a bit,  but technology has taken over. I have my phone which will get me any instant information that I want. My BBM, twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and other media have shown me that my lover will be best communicated to easily without having to sleep at the post office for the arrival of his or my letter.

Music is a reflection of mood,  and it is often sang to soothe the spirit. We have different musicians with different genres of music. Reggae was trending at a point, afro, jazz, blues,  hip hop and the likes. They all gained prominence at the time each was trending, but glaringly, hip hop has taken over all,  though some still in existence, but hip hop has taken the larger audience. Angelique kidjo reigned, yet still reigning but not like before, Fella Anikulapo reigned, Michael Jackson did with his voice and break dancing steps, but he has bid the world farewell, now the Justin Bieber, the Jason Derulos,  the Adeles, the wiz kids, the Mafikizolos are the musicians trending.

Every trend will end to give a new innovation to earn its recognition, and all trend extremists should beware of how they celebrate all trending things. My sister bought a whole lot of lacra clothing because It was trending then,  but to her surprise, jeans material took over few months to her shopping, she was confused of what to do, either to sell her lacra materials, or to keep them. ( Trend will always end,  so tread carefully).