What gave the song even more subliminal appeal to me was what I DID NOT HEAR in the song but projected in my own mind. There are many places in the song where I could imagine NAILAH hitting some pore-raising HIGH NOTES adding some more excitement and vocal skills to the production.
I understand the sentiment with the "IRON LOVE" but I don't think that this song was a good choice for the PANS. The combination of the arrangers NOT SEEING the potential and the PANS not having the tonality to deliver what I was expecting to hear.
This is the ONLY ARTISTE in TRINIDAD who I think has the potential to break a song on the GLOBAL MUSIC SCENE. But I think that (at her core) she is too wedded to the LOCAL EXPRESSION and desperately needs some OUTSIDE COACHING on how to deliver to an INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE.
NAILAH has all the ingredients I expect (she does still need some vocal coaching from the outside) from a BREAK OUT TRINIDAD STAR -- all that is missing right now is THE RIGHT MATERIAL.
Maybe a good trial experiment for her right now would be to take the basic "IRON LOVE" musical foundation and rewrite some GENERIC LYRICS over a spruced-up music track for some GLOBAL MARKETING. Re-release the song close to summer and SHOOT FOR THE STARS.
That was just TOO GOOD a MELODY to WASTE on PANORAMA!!!
Everybody tell me/ah taking on too much/but I say is only/who feel it know the TOUCH!!!
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ZANDA! by Dalton Narine
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Take Nailah Blackman’s Iron Love, for instance.
“The significance of the Iron,” Zanda says, “jump-started the song. “It’s a thing of beauty, because you’ve made it so right.”
“I always bring a fresh perspective at this time of year. Nailah is talking about a love for the iron. Ha, somebody go lose dey man, get it?”
Sure, hold on to your man during the Carnival. Any psychiatrist will drop that in a woman’s lap.
Zanda says Nailah spared no expense in getting her song to a top tier of the Panorama jammer, for the music is really jamming.
Is what’s happening this season heavy stuff, or what? “That’s right. The entire song is about iron. Lick de pan.”
“Women, too, have stories about pan. After all, you can find them pushing pan on the side. It’s like, come to me to get our story, the picture, our music.”
Lord Kitchener:
Hold on to your man if you love him
Don’t ask me why
Watch him in de band when he jumping
For you could cry
Nailah Blackman:
(Iron man oh he sweeter than
When he lick de pan, Jam iron
Woman does leave they man) x 2
(Ah bring it, ah bring it, ah bring it
Ah bring it, ah bring it, ah bring it,
Bring de iron love) x 2
Nailah in Tears After El Dorado Secondary Performs Iron Love
El Dorado East Secondary School's performance of "Iron Love" at this year's School's Panorama competition brought tears to Nailah Blackman's eyes. Nailah was at this year's School's Panorama competition since many primary and secondary school bands chose her song "Iron Love" for their panorama piece. This performance earned the school placed second place. Only one point separated them from the winning school steelband, Naparima Girls & Boys College.