Howzdat's Peerless League of Takeaway20 CricketTM
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Proceed with care! Topic under reconstruction. Falling debris likely!
Allyuh see dis announcement in de main forum, "
CPL Anthem Interprets the Vibe and Pulse Of Caribbean Cricket?". Only thing being that what
was the Anthem was not really the Anthem but the soundtrack to the CPL T20 promotional Video. We now have the Anthem, "
How We Play" by Konshens & Kes. Confused? I hope that I am beginning to see things clearly now.
How can anyone who knows anything about the caribbean come up with that mundane composition as a soundtrack to those clips and and claim seh dat it
too portrays "The Vibe and Pulse Of Caribbean Cricket", reflective of the region, its people, OUR cricket, OUR HISTORY, OUR ASPIRATIONS, OUR EXUBERANCE, OUR LOVE FOR THE GREAT GAME
Or am i mistaken?
There aint no way a single second of that soundtrack is gonna hit the decks during ANY season's
HPL t20TM as Sponsored by
FetchDat!TM. Did they pay for that?
Take a look at the Promotional Video
The soundtrack, which takes cue immediately after the bowlers grunt and the ball hitting the bat, opens up with the well measured sound of ivories being tinkered with, easy-listening style; then, out of nowhere rouses itself in a manner that evokes that Irish fella Paul David Hewson and his group over and over and over and over and over and over .... And then Chris "Don-A-GorGon" Gayle smacks ball, and by way of attempting more to grab our ears and send us soaring up, up and away down into a vortex - a la mode techno house, frantic bpm's over and over and over over and over and over again - eventually giving way once more to the ivories. tinkle & tinkle & tinkle they do and and then Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh they do so for the last time as the anthem silences itself, exhausted.
What was the brief? For this promotional video we'd like you to come up with a "Eurotrashy-Singalong-a-Dingaling-that-Coons-will be-shown-Getting Down-and-Shaking-Up-dem-Bambazam-to" sorta vibe
Result: Mission Accomplished.
More on my Interpretation of the soundtrack that accompanies the video depicting the Vibe and Pulse Of Caribbean Cricket, CPL stylee later, but before I go I just wanna set my stall out by borrowing a phrase uttered so eloquently by the late Amy Winehouse.
Winehouse & Ronson did not wrote:
I say "NO, NO, NO". And since I'll die black, there's no way I'll dance to that, I say "NO, NO, NO". Because there's nothing, Oh no nothing it reflects, that i can't learn about the Vibe and Pulse, of the Ca rib beeeeen by taking a long hard look back at my self, in the God damned mirror, and say "NO, NO, NO".
So since I'll die black and aint nowt's gonna change that, there is no need, no need at all, for you to trouble yourself, & try to re-caste me, into some mistaken figment, of your cor por ate ima gin ation ... I say "NO, NO, NO"..
Yeah, since I'm born black, you just ought to know, that there's no way my feet are gonna dance me to that and there's no way, NO, God damned way that I need to go for rehab, Oh yeah I say "NO, NO, NO" because Datz just NOT how we play in in this Peerless League, I say "NO, NO, NO" So I beg you, oh please do I beg you go reeeeeeewind and come again ...!
I say "NO, NO, NO". So since I'll die black and aint nowt's gonna change that,there is no need, ab so lutely no need at all, for you to trouble yourself, & try to re-caste me, into some mistaken figment, of your cor por ate ima gin ation ... I say "NO, NO, NO".
There's nothing, Oh no nothing you ever gonna teach me, that i can't learn about the Vibe and Pulse, of the Ca rib beeeeen by taking a long hard look back at my self, in the God damned mirror, and say "NO, NO, NO".
Oh, and I don't care who they gonna get to remix that soundtrack it still gonna be ill-fitting! ... unless of course you were told that, "for this promotional video you need to produce some musical accompaniment that conveys the impression that the coons done gone and got demselves pacified, bleached and tone deaf!
No sah, I aint gonna be wining down to dat Vibe or Pulse promotional soundtrack in the
HPL t20TM.
PS ... And now what is this that I hear Spragga Benz & Marlon, "Banking On IT"
PPS ... If the CPL had co-ordinated all of this properly then there would not have been any confusion. Nonetheless,
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Dear reader, You still are mindful that I am crazy; and that I have a disclaimer don't you? Good
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