Earlier this week I went scanning the VIRTUAL SOCA CHUTNEY videos on YOUTUBE to see if i find anything that I like. In the process I ran in to "NEVA GONNA LEAVE". When ah see the VIDEO meh heart JUMP FOR JOY. Ah say LORD, dem TRINIDAD CHUTNEY MEN finally make ah GLOBAL QUALITY SOCA CHUTNEY. Ah take two drinks and ah smoke two CALIFORNIA SENSIMILLA and ah put the song on REPLAY.
But then ah start to read THE COMMENTS and a GREAT CULTURAL DEPRESSION took me when I saw all DEM GUYANESE celebrating the song and even PUTTING DOWN TRINIDAD CHUTNEY. Is then I realize that that THE ARTISTE is GUYANESE.
Now ah doh want anybody to get me wrong, eh. I am a BIG SUPPORTER of GUYANA and I have BIG DREAM for a CARIBBEAN UTOPIA in GUYANA. Ah even write that IFRAAN ALI government and offer some ideas for the DEVELOPMENT OF PAN IN GUYANA -- but that is beside the point. Leh meh get to the point.
I call myself a TRINIDAD NATIONALIST and A REAL TRINIDADIAN. My heart and my soul yearns for TRINIDADIANS to SHINE GLOBALLY in all they aspire. And I as like to say: ME EH COME TO TRINIDAD ON NO BOAT.
Now what THE DOCTOR recommended is that I go find some PIECE OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION from TRINIDAD that meets GLOBAL STANDARDS and listen to it THREE TIMES A DAY and my CULTURAL DEPRESSION will be cured. But this is a YANKEE DOCTOR and what he doh know is that such a CULTURAL PRODUCT from TRINIDAD does not exist in PAN, SOCA, CHUTNEY, OR FILM.
So I am destined TO DIE from THIS CULTURAL DEPRESSION.
In the mean time leh meh go back and listen to this GUYANA CROSSOVER CHUTNEY -- even though it needs a LOT OF WORK STILL to meet MY EXPECTATIONS. But it sure to reach TEN MILLION VIEWS.
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