So another female dancehall artist has come out against same gender loving women activities in a track called "No Gyal To Mi Ting" (No Girls To My Thing)
[meaning vagina in this case as we sexualize nearly everything in Jamaica]
..... of course others to have done so were Lady Saw and Macka Diamond. One hardly hears songs like this from the female side of the dancehall music business but at least from listening to the track it has no recommendations of death or harm to come to the possible same gender loving woman if identified.
That designation could speak to the far greater tolerance level in Jamaican society and by extension the world of lesbianism as opposed to male homosexuality. Lesbian sex is even accepted in the adult entertainment night club arena where several spots across the island do offer servings of such to eager men and women too who seem to enjoy the shows with very little dissent in most cases.
Hear the song:
Other male acts that have hit out at lesbian life are Elephant Man, Mr. Lexx aka Lexxuss, Mr. G aka Goofie, Bounty Killa, Beenieman among others but the usual hit out is far softer when compared to the male same gender loving counterparts as the prescription is uisually some violence or death as the punishment.
Elephant Man (O'Neil Bryant) declares in one song, "When you hear a lesbian getting raped/ It's not our fault ... Two women in bed/ That's two Sodomites who should be dead." Reactions have been mixed from all quarters including some lesbians who proudly rebut the song even on the youtube channel where the song appears. The Spice track has been getting heavy rotation as a radio version has softened it somewhat, HITZ 92, IRIE FM and ZIP 103 FM sister station to IRIE have all been spinning it proudly maybe as a softer way to imply the anti homosexual message as the strict monitoring of the Broadcasting Commission prohibits openly suggestive songs of violence of any sort.
The lyrics suggest:
A wah do some gal? a gal a dem gal (what's up with some girls? its girls as their girl [lover])
No gyal to mi ting (No girls to my thing)
No gyal caan fingle mi tingalingaling (No girl can't touch my tinga ling [vagina]
Caan gimme ring or but mi bling bling (Can't give me a ring or buy me blings [jewelry])
No gyal caan ask fi mi BB pin (No girl cannot ask for my BB pin)
No gyal caan tell me fi wine (No girl can't tell me to whine [suggest Jamaican dance])
Str8 man alone wi always be mine (Strictly men alone will always be mine)
No gyal caan stand up inna mi line (No girl can't stand in my line [be in my life sexually])
No gyal caan show me the love me sign
No gyal caan see mi and pree mi u get mi? (no girl can't see me & view me you understand?)
When mi a wine a man alone can set mi (When I am dancing men alone can set me)
No female only male can get me
No gyal caan touch me up inna salon (No girl can't touch me in a salon) - suggesting hairdressers maybe involved in lesbian activity, a perception that is real out there.
So there you have a summary of the song placed here, strange enough Spice has a large LGBT following and when her songs are played at parties they are responded to quite well. Save and except for her duet with Vybz Kartel in "Ramping Shop" the opening lyric where she responds to Kartel's line "....man to man gal to gal dat wrong (men to men girls to girls that's wrong) she replies "scorn dem" (scorn them) so she may have a consistency building.
Peace and tolerance
H
1 comment:
Loved the article! Much truth inside.
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