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Is Bad Trini Music - Trinidad, Tobago / Caribbean - Posted: 13th Jun, 2016 - 6:30pm
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Is It Bad Not To Like Trini Music?
This may sound like a silly question, but do many people living in Trinidad NOT like Trini music?
I just can't acquire a taste for soca. It's too repetitive and simplistic and [in my opinion] only good to dance to and not to listen to. I'm indifferent towards calypso, but it gets too political sometimes. Chutney is fine some of the time, but can be a bit repetitive like soca.
So, would people think "Eh eh, wha'happen to you?!" if a person says they don't like Trini music? 
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You can't just look at soca as "Trini music". There is a lot more music variety in Trinidad. Steel pan, rapson, calypso (not the same as soca), chutney, parang, etc. I like all kinds of music, some I can do without but generally I love my Trini music.
Is It Bad Not To Like Trini Music? Caribbean / Tobago & Trinidad
To get into soca you have to like the jammin kind of music. Soca is like an excuse to get on bad and just have fun I don't think anyone stops to think about the beat or what's being said.
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I do not like it and actually heard that argument from a Trini who came back from studying music in the UK. He was saying he could not understand the four beat concept with lyrics that had no real beginning or end. I think Soca music has its place for certain people, just not with me. As for other types of music in Trinidad… I like parang, but I do not know if we can really claim that as our music. I feel there needs to be a lot more development in the classical side of the talent of our people. Not everything is jump and wave.
Is It Bad Not To Like Trini Music?
I always find sickening how some singers defend their vulgar songs by blaming another artist or comparing their crap with another crap song. In this case, Bunji defends the double meaning of the song "Banana" after a lecturer described this song (And all soca) as "Musical pornography". Of course, the song is a hit and people are offended with the lecturer's definition.
QUOTE Ban "Banana".
That was the tongue in cheek response by Bunji Garlin (Ian Alvarez) yesterday to a Cipriani Labour College lecturer's definition of the popular soca hit as musical pornography during an interview on a Jamaican radio talk show on Wednesday.
Bunji, who was speaking during Bmobile's Soca in B Square lunchtime concert performance in Woodford Square, Port of Spain, told the audience that whenever a song was banned it immediately became a bigger hit than it was before.
With the crowd cheering him on, Bunji said he wondered how could his double entendre about a fruit be any more suggestive than songs such as "Mae Mae", "Drunk And Disorderly" and "Saltfish" by the Mighty Sparrow whom he respects highly.
"Saltfish and banana does go together," shouted his wife Fay-Ann Lyons sending the crowd wild as Bunji began to sing the now controversial song.
Soca artistes are angered over the statements made by Dr Kwame Nantambu, a lecturer at Cipriani Labour College and a specialist in Pan-African studies, who said that soca music is responsible for the moral decadence of the nation. In the Jamaica radio interview, he also said that soca should be banned not just in Jamaica, but also here in Trinidad and Tobago.
Calypsonian Chalkdust told the Express yesterday that he agrees that any song promoting vulgarity and violence should be banned, but strongly objected to the notion that all soca music was lewd and suggestive. "I support any ban on songs that are vulgar, but the idea that all soca is offensive, that's foolishness. There is a lot of very good soca music and also Jamaican (Reggae-dancehall) music so one can't make a blanket statement like that. There are also derogatory songs that need to be banned like those that preach violence," Chalkdust said.
Rapso artiste and secretary of the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation, Brother Resistance, said anyone making such pronouncements on soca needs first to examine other popular music on the airways. He also supported Bunji Garlin, saying the song "Banana" is a well crafted bit of double entendre that is in no way lewd and suggestive.
"People who condemn outright the quality of our music need to check themselves and assess other forms of popular music rather than just make a statement like that. Local composers have to pull together and defend the music we put out, not allowing anyone to create such mischief and get away with it....
That was the tongue in cheek response by Bunji Garlin (Ian Alvarez) yesterday to a Cipriani Labour College lecturer's definition of the popular soca hit as musical pornography during an interview on a Jamaican radio talk show on Wednesday.
Bunji, who was speaking during Bmobile's Soca in B Square lunchtime concert performance in Woodford Square, Port of Spain, told the audience that whenever a song was banned it immediately became a bigger hit than it was before.
With the crowd cheering him on, Bunji said he wondered how could his double entendre about a fruit be any more suggestive than songs such as "Mae Mae", "Drunk And Disorderly" and "Saltfish" by the Mighty Sparrow whom he respects highly.
"Saltfish and banana does go together," shouted his wife Fay-Ann Lyons sending the crowd wild as Bunji began to sing the now controversial song.
Soca artistes are angered over the statements made by Dr Kwame Nantambu, a lecturer at Cipriani Labour College and a specialist in Pan-African studies, who said that soca music is responsible for the moral decadence of the nation. In the Jamaica radio interview, he also said that soca should be banned not just in Jamaica, but also here in Trinidad and Tobago.
Calypsonian Chalkdust told the Express yesterday that he agrees that any song promoting vulgarity and violence should be banned, but strongly objected to the notion that all soca music was lewd and suggestive. "I support any ban on songs that are vulgar, but the idea that all soca is offensive, that's foolishness. There is a lot of very good soca music and also Jamaican (Reggae-dancehall) music so one can't make a blanket statement like that. There are also derogatory songs that need to be banned like those that preach violence," Chalkdust said.
Rapso artiste and secretary of the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation, Brother Resistance, said anyone making such pronouncements on soca needs first to examine other popular music on the airways. He also supported Bunji Garlin, saying the song "Banana" is a well crafted bit of double entendre that is in no way lewd and suggestive.
"People who condemn outright the quality of our music need to check themselves and assess other forms of popular music rather than just make a statement like that. Local composers have to pull together and defend the music we put out, not allowing anyone to create such mischief and get away with it....
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