Afrobeats songstress, Simi recently stirred reactions among Instagram users with her definition of peer pressure.
She explained it actually wasn’t about ‘following bad friends’ but being compelled to react adversely based on the actions of another not necessarily an associate, in a bid to avoid being tagged weak.
Simi illustrated her point exemplifying motorists on the highway where one, precisely a lady who’s been driving responsibly is suddenly overtaken by another.
At that point, the ‘overtaken responsible driver’, wanting to prove a point of not being a ‘weakling’ to the overtaker decides to do the ‘needful’.
“Do you know what peer pressure is? You think it’s following bad friends? No, that’s not it,” Simi stated.
Describing the term in her own words, the 35-year-old singer said: “Peer pressure is when you’re driving responsibly, within the speed limit, doing all the right things, you’re very sure your name is on the book of life.
“You’re sure your making the right decisions but then, somebody is now driving from the back, cing fast…coming fast…coming fast. They now passed you, now entered your front, now zoomed off (makes the speeding off sound).
“You feel lost and they’ve told you; you’ll never be the last, you’ll be the first. So, you too, you carry your leg, pressed your accelerator (makes the speeding off sound again). Because you don’t want them to look at you that you’re not a strong lady, that’s peer pressure.”
The viewers however, had varying opinions about Simi’s illustration of the term with some claiming she was trying to pass a message beyond cars and driving.
mariomakez said: “She isn’t really referring to car she is referring to the race of life.”
robyekpo wrote: “The story has absolutely nothing to do with cars If you know, you know.”
tochukwujoyce stated: “Simi is in a healthy union_.”
dayowrites commented: “It’s how you people cannot decode the message in the context she’s talking.”
kingoncie said: “This one na rich people peer pressure… for sapa nation peer pressure is waking up every day.”
wendy_adamma wrote: “The kin peer pressureeee no be for who get leggedisbenz.”
iam_krisjoe stated: “The way I love this girl ehnn, always full of wisdom and insight. If u feel she’s talking about cars, then u dnt think deep.”
hairess_gallery remarked: “When u get it … like… GET IT, it hits different.”
maryvenia said: “Very apt… no better way to explain it than this.”
classicgegstores wrote: “Dear lord forgive me Especially if it’s keke napep or Okada that did it to me. I will not gree oo.”
dunsyn stated: “This is not about car.. lol, nice.”
lord_finten commented: “Two cars ran a red light inside my street junction when I was trying to be civil. And there wasn’t no task force to catch them. Omo I press accelerator also. True true na peer pressure.”
