I'm listening to Mighty Sparrow right now - I'm not especially knowledgeable about calypso, but it seems to me like a lot of it is party/dancing/social music with words that are frequently about politics and current events, and nobody acts like it's any huge contradiction. Why aren't there songs about stuff that's in the newspaper anymore, especially in music that's purported to be "fun" (meaning not contemporary folk or Rage Against The Machine)?
― Patrick, Saturday, 26 May 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link