Thursday, July 18, 2013

WHAT A MAS!

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4 comments:

elbeem2000 said...

Message to the Select Committee of Stakeholders for Carnival ... please BAN the importation of ready-made costumes to some St Lucian carnival bands.

St Lucia has a lot of talented people who can be enticed to create and produce (in mass production) carnival costumes. Yes, it can be done!!

There is a phenomenon called "workshops", where carnival bands (e.g. Red International), can host a "creativity costume" workshop, and use these same people who joined the workshop to assist the band to produce their carnival costumes ... right here in St Lucia!! There are also creative artists, with a carnival background, who can facilitate these workshops. This is not rocket science, my friends ...

I felt rather ashamed for my "creative" friends of Red International, and another carnival band portraying "a theme" (where? what?) in imported costumes - not fair at all to us creative artists who can design, and produce your costumes, right here in St Lucia!!

July 18, 2013 at 6:33 PM
Anonymous said...

What a mess! Children, even the very little ones going through the sex act in full view of the public, with their clothes on.

July 20, 2013 at 9:19 AM
DaProdigalSon said...

For me, the importation of costumes isn't as bad as the artistes who blatantly copy foreign artistes. It seems like these artistes and the St Lucian public, find no fault with this lack of originality. It's a sad state of affairs. Hardly anything from St Lucia seems original these days. Ambi was on stage shouting 'sparta', which is a Jamaican gang. Superman screams 'everybody', something made popular by a Jamaican selector and most of the other artistes seem to try to speak Jamaican, when addressing their audience. Can someone please tell them how STUPID they sound. I strongly believe that the importation of costumes should be a band's choice, as long as the designs are original and St Lucian. One can easily argue that if you need to import the fabric to make the costumes, then manufacturing can be done overseas too. Then again, there's the issue of whether or not costumes will be made on time, if manufactured locally. Our work ethic and professionalism can always answer this question. Having said that, there's no excuse for the rubbish that some of these artistes come out with. The rest of the world probably laughs at our music. Good lyrics are seriously lacking. We just seem happy and content to sing and dance along to the most 'coshornee' available.

July 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM
Anonymous said...

Your head line should read -

"WHAT A MESS"

July 23, 2013 at 7:36 AM

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