“Afrobeats”（非洲节拍）这一术语被应用于各种流派，将它们扁平化为一种。
The term Afrobeats is applied to all sorts of genres, flattening them into one.
艺术家、媒体和音乐产业必须做得更好，以展示非洲流行音乐的丰富性。
2024年，南非流行明星Tyla在MTV音乐录影带大奖上获得最佳非洲节拍奖。
Artists, media and the music industry must do better at showing off the richness of African pop In 2024, South African pop star Tyla won the best Afrobeats award at the MTV VMAs.
她身穿黄色礼服，面带微笑，以庆祝的语气开始了她的获奖感言：“这对非洲音乐来说是一个巨大的时刻。
《Water》——她的热门单曲——的全球影响力证明了非洲音乐可以是流行音乐。”
Beaming in a yellow dress, she began her acceptance speech in a celebratory tone. “This is such a big moment for African music. The global impact of Water,” – her hit single – “proves that African music can be pop music.”
但随着观众的欢呼声越来越大，她的语气变得沉重，形容这一刻是苦乐参半的。
But as the audience’s cheers swelled, she became more sombre, describing the moment as bittersweet.
“有一种趋势将所有非洲音乐归类为Afrobeats，”她继续说道。
“There’s a tendency to group all African music as Afrobeats,” she continued.
“尽管Afrobeats为我们打开了许多大门，但非洲音乐非常多样化。
我来自南非，我代表amapiano”，指的是该国那种流畅、性感舞蹈子流派。
“Even though Afrobeats has opened so many doors for us, African music is so diverse. I come from South Africa, I represent amapiano”, referring to the country’s rolling, sensual dance subgenre.
尽管她热情地呼吁，但几个月后，她再次在美国音乐奖（AMAs）的非洲节拍类别中获奖。
Her passionate entreaty notwithstanding, months later she’d reprise her win in the Afrobeats category of the American Music Awards.
Tyla绝非唯一对Afrobeats标签提出批评的非洲艺术家。
Tyla is hardly the only African artist to rail against the Afrobeats tag.
Tems拒绝使用这一术语，将她的音乐描述为“非洲、R&B、灵魂乐和另类元素的鸡尾酒”。
Tems has spurned the term, describing her music as a cocktail of “Afro, R&B, soul and alternative elements”.
同样，Burna Boy更喜欢称他的音乐为Afrofusion（非洲融合），这是对汇聚在他音乐中的各种声音的恰当描述。
Likewise, Burna Boy prefers to call his music Afrofusion, a fitting characterisation of the smorgasbord of sounds that converge in his music.
Wizkid、Ckay、King Promise和Davido也对Afrobeats这一术语感到不满，但它依然存在，并阻碍了非洲音乐的发展。
Wizkid, Ckay, King Promise and Davido have also chafed at the term Afrobeats, yet it persists and holds back African music.