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Laziness (in soca music)

by Dave Harris
(Virginia Beach, VA, USA)

How much time does it take to "compose" this new soca? Three minutes per song? Jump and wave, wave ya rag....need I go on? Does anyone have real music and lyrics anymore? If the music is good, you won't have to tell people to "jump and wave". They will feel it. If you hear good pan, you won't have to tell people to move. Again, they will feel it.
Youth, go back to the "old school" and study. So far, musically, most of you are failing!
Yes, I am qualified to talk. I am a musician-not programmer or sampler, born in Brooklyn, NY, of Trinidadian parents (Mom from Belmont, Dad from Diego Martin). I grew up with Calypso and Pan.
Ras Shorty must be rolling in his grave hearing this noise people are calling music.
SHAME!

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Aug 13, 2008
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starstarstarstarstar 		Jump and wave soca music
by: soca artiste

If you think it's easy to compose this music think again. It may seem easy but it isn't? If it's so easy to write a jump and wave song that will move thousands even millions, go ahead and do it. After all it's easy, it won't take a lot of effort. Then post it here and prove your point.

In every era the older generation has criticized the music of the younger generation. Take Rock & Roll for example. So we can expect soca to be criticized just the same today. It's so easy to criticize.

If you have not written a jump and wave soca you don't qualify as an expert so you can't talk about how easy or difficult it is to write such a song.

Nobody is forced to love jump and wave soca. The masses embrace it so the artistes must be doing something right.
Oct 21, 2008
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starstarstarstarstar 		duuuude
by: Ms DJ Revz

I can totally give u a list of soca songs that have very "real" lyrics attached to them - and it is not all about Jump and Wave.

"Our Prayer" - Kes the Band (2007)
'Start this life anew/ jah will guide you through'

"Order" - Maximus Dan (2005)
'Guns are roaming free/ Polluting my city/ They call on man for help/ to murder someone else'

With regards to jumping and waving its important to look at WHAT the artist is saying:

'Is all about unity, togetherness
Carnival time we love de jamming
All ah we collectively
In de bacchanal time to start de fete'n'

Destra "FLY"

OR it can simply be reflecting on what we want to see happen in the world:

'I ask myself many questions and I got no answer
The world needs more affection, we got to dig deeper
Wash away your hatred with love and you'll feel better
Just walk away from your anger and you will live longer'

Rogeer George - "The World Needs More Love"

I COULD go on, but then I wouldnt get any work done LOL - but yea there is much much MUCH more to soca than Jumping and Waving - its just a matter of listening to the words. (And its super hard to write a track too....i tried, and i failed so shame on me!)

Ms DJ Revz!!!


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