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From Islandevents.com PRINT Loose Lips
Tribal warfare?
What was that “e-mail glitch” that had a popular artiste scrambling for masqueraders for his video last weekend? At face value, “the e-mail stopped working” sounded like a reasonable explanation – you know things happen. But, if you cannot contact your masqueraders who were promised for talent then it seems like basic manners to call the people and say something. Not so, and “yuh boy” and the producers had to wing it all night Friday night, calling all their friends and family to come with their 2006 costume. So, when the 40 or so masqueraders showed up, and all they had in common was the dream of seeing themselves on TV, it was like hell to open the gate on their performance. I hear “yuh boy” had to wuk the mic to make them jump! But the boy is a star in the making and I heard he ended up making the thing look good too bad. The talk is that the tribal war must have started with his decision to sing a song with fighting words about peoples sexual preferences. Town say the “e-mail glitch” which left him without the 200 promised masqueraders had to do with those of the tribe who are differently- oriented in their sexual choices. But I am really not meddling in that! Warring Diva So there is this ad on radio, right. Every time they call a performing artiste they play a clip of their hit song. Except on this occasion, right at the beginning when they announce the performance of this soca Diva, and nary a hint of a song! Not a line, not a verse, not even a hint of her music! Now you know how when you’re not looking for something how it could be right in your eyes? Well, I noticed it and said nothing. Is only when, on the weekend, friends began talking with friends about other friends and somebody just asked: “What she sing this year?” and all talk stopped. Full brakes like if we reach a cliff out by the Atlantic Ocean. Then people start picking on the girl. How she should spend less time squabbling with other divas and more time writing; and how maybe the big-time corporate contracts full up she pocket! And then, out ah the blue, somebody ask: “You see how she teeth riding in them ads? You think they paying her enough to get some braces?” It’s been a bad year so far... Sour grapes! They said he was too young to soca. Now they find she’s too young to sing a song about some man rubbing her head! How she was just in school and what she could tell big people about sugar! How the lyrics and melody real nice, but she should be singing some song to people her age not about the sweetness of man, but about the bitterness of unprotected sex and how HIV/AIDS could cut their sugared experience real short. And, about alcohol and how young people always feel they could drink and make it home safe. It must be the carnage on the road last weekend that set tongues wagging. © Copyright 2003 by Islandevents.com PRINT |