We have no pressure to follow the new hip styles. When I was in Senegal recently, there was also a lot of criticism against this new style. People say that the style is only understood in Dakar. There is no international market for that kind of stuff. They say that Senegal will never be as big as, say, Zaire used to be in African music, if everybody just follows each others footsteps.
Pape tells also, that older style and values are coming back.
Even new stars are singing old classics, like Vivianne Ndour on his first hit Sa Ma Nene, which is a song written in 80's by El Hadji Faye, the beloved star vocalist of Etoile de Dakar. The news about El Hadji are leading Pape to memoir his own collaboration with the man in Africa 2000. But that is all another story.