A couple of weeks ago I went out with a few of my friends to a bashment club. Anyone ever heard of bashment music? It is sort of like reggae but a little more upbeat with a hip-hop twist to it. That's the best way I can describe it. Here is an example of bashment music:
So picture this: There are mostly older people in the club (late 20's to late 40's) and mostly Jamaican men with dreads. Somehow everyone knows every song verbatim and all the dances that go along with the songs. Then--out of nowhere--the DJ starts to play Leanne Rimes. Leanne Rimes in a bashment club! But that's not the shocking part. EVERYONE in there goes crazy and starts belting out "How Do I Live Without You" word for word!! I'm talking about grown, 35-40 year old Jamaican men with dreads all the way down to their butts swaying back and forth with their eyes closed singing Leanne Rimes. It was the funniest and strangest thing I have ever seen. For those of you unfamiliar with Leanne Rimes, here is the song they played in the club:
And you know how when the DJ plays a song that gets people hype, he will start the song and then stop it and start it over again to get people more hype? That's what he did with this song and people were just falling out with excitement. I was so confused. Don't get me wrong, I like Leanne Rimes and I actually knew all the words to this song too, but I am an American Black girl! I would have never expected some middle-aged Jamaican men to be fans of Leanne Rimes. I guess you learn something new everyday.
So picture this: There are mostly older people in the club (late 20's to late 40's) and mostly Jamaican men with dreads. Somehow everyone knows every song verbatim and all the dances that go along with the songs. Then--out of nowhere--the DJ starts to play Leanne Rimes. Leanne Rimes in a bashment club! But that's not the shocking part. EVERYONE in there goes crazy and starts belting out "How Do I Live Without You" word for word!! I'm talking about grown, 35-40 year old Jamaican men with dreads all the way down to their butts swaying back and forth with their eyes closed singing Leanne Rimes. It was the funniest and strangest thing I have ever seen. For those of you unfamiliar with Leanne Rimes, here is the song they played in the club:
And you know how when the DJ plays a song that gets people hype, he will start the song and then stop it and start it over again to get people more hype? That's what he did with this song and people were just falling out with excitement. I was so confused. Don't get me wrong, I like Leanne Rimes and I actually knew all the words to this song too, but I am an American Black girl! I would have never expected some middle-aged Jamaican men to be fans of Leanne Rimes. I guess you learn something new everyday.
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Ha ha, you made that up, right? No, I guess no one could make that up. When we went to St. Maarten last year, we went to a restaurant called Cheri's. At the table next to us, there was a big table of young island women. The restaurant was playing fast-paced island and world music. I didn't know any of the songs, so they all sounded the same to me. But when this one particular song came on, the whole table was like, "Yeeeaaahh!!!" like that was their jam. They got all excited and sang all the words, just like your Jamaican men. I couldn't tell the difference between that song and the rest of them. Just think, if we grew up in a different culture, who knows what kind of music we'd like?
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