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And I was wondering, was that tune banned? Or were any old calypsos banned?

* note to newbies...not it's not a Carnival 2K6 tune *

banned where? it still plays on dominican radio

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I mean, was it, or songs like it, ever banned

ah nevah eat ah white meat yet!

That tune is probably older than some people in this forum.

Sparrow performs that tune all over the place, I don't think it was banned at any point. The Soca/calypso pundits may know.

I know a couple of Crazy's tunes were banned, "Paul yuh mudda come" was one of them.

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My mother LOVES to hear that play in a fete. All yuh hear is 'clear de way' and she's on the dancefloor.

don't think it was banned.

the last calypsoca tune i could rememba being a big hoopla was when Iwer came w/ "Bottom In De Road" in 98.

i do rememba and still get told of the stories about Super's "Soca Baptist" getting banned.

salty

I love that tune. I have to find out from my father if that song was ever band.

no i dont tink it was evah banned before...but any minute now Vincy powa go come and clear dat up fuh us

We does play that on pan. "Never eat ah white meat, oh noooo no!"

there was no need to ban congo man and a host of other songs as they were classic double entendre and ‘private’ to adults in 'polite company'

in your youth, back then, the image you saw was of ‘natives and the cooking pot’. in your late teens it dawned on you what ‘eating a white meat’ really meant


only some recent songs have any degree of cleverness

lick down me nani

go right up in dey

drive it

carn go fuh cane / caroni close down

etc

candidates for restricted airing are simple ‘play on everyday words’ songs, understandable to a five year old and of no interest to the adult-minded

(iwer), yuh mudda can’t

paul yuh mudda come

for cough

ah cash it


punning and double entendre are no longer as potent as everyone is so 'grown-up and direct' and don’t waste time talking about threading needle

then and now, only if a song was deemed party political or slanderous - dem bald-head go ban it.


http://www.trinicenter.com/winford/2004/Jan/

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yeah i agree w/ neva-c.

politicians quicker 2 ban a tune w/ a political edginess than a smutty calypso it seems over the last 15-20 years. i also agree in terms of lack of wittiness in double-entendre's. some calypsoca tunes over last 5 years have been just str8 smut.

perfect example: Billy D'Kid horrible huck-choo-spit remake of Penguin's 'Soft Man' in 2005. the topic of remakes is a whole next issue, but in this song it's just a great example of smut calypso.....or soca in this case. tasteless and just a bad bad bad bad remake.

salty

p.s.
i actually like a few songs Billy did, but this was just unbeeweeveabull.