On Raptors OVO Night March 16h 2017 these Dancers brought down the house with an Incredible set of Hip Hop and Soca featuring MORE LIFE new hit single FAKE LOVE, followed by OVO Sound artist Majid Jordan, Iconic Hotline Bling and topped it off to a nod to OVO Fest 2016 bringing SOCA to the Court with Machel Montano LIKE AH BOSS!! The Video has gone Viral on Social Media already reaching 1.4 MILLION Facebook Views, 20K Shares on reposts on Instagram and appeared on the News in Trinidad! YouTube Muted the Sound to this Video when we first uploaded it but recently put the Sound back. Thanks YouTube! Enjoy! Choreographed by Jade Jager Clark performed by Jade's Hip Hop Academy Performance Company Dancers ages 8 -18.
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SOCA got all the POTENTIAL IN THE WORLD. If the composers would just get brave and take the risk and write some more GLOBALLY NEUTRAL LYRICS we could get a real big piece of the music pie.
And notice that you don't have to WINE LIKE ANIMALS in the street to demonstrate the music!!!
don't know , Claude
Soca-like sounds are already out there , because it is all about tempo and there is little to the lyrics , unlike roots reggae.
So you can hear soca rhythms in commercials etc , just not soca from the Caribbean.
And the music can easily be synthesized to play in clubs etc. by DJs , and as a matter of fact has become very similar to Jamaican dancehall.
I think that the demand for up- tempo soca style music , though not overwhelming , is there and is being met , just not by Trinidadian artists.
Trinidadian soca artists with a few exceptions, haven't really done much to distinguish soca from other similar up-tempo world music genres.
So the beat goes on.