Well, it wasn't too long after I got to PVAMU that I realized that i would have problems with more than the questions and ignorant statement. One other thing I have always loved and still love to this day is MUSIC!!! I know a lot of music of different genres and from the past couple decades even though sometimes I ask myself "Sabia where do you know this song from and why do you know ALL the words?" I thought that coming to Texas I would have quickly adjusted to the music and everything else but I was WRONG!!
Of course growing up in the Caribbean I always heard Soca, Danchall, Reggae, Calypso and as I got older I started listening to R&B, Hip Hop, Pop, Rock etc and my mom loves Jazz music so I know a lil summ summ!! my favourite genre of music has to be Soca but I have always been open to listening and hearing new things. Then I came to PV!!!
I went to the courtyard party for all the incoming freshman and I expected to hear a variety of music because when I lived in Antigua and even the year I lived in New York, any party or gathering I went to there was always a variety of music. However, this is what I heard (feel free to youtube theses songs):
Do the Ricky Bobby - B Hamp
HomeGurl - Bone
Walk With a Dip - Loui$iana Cash
Do Da Stanky Leg - G-Spot
Ice Cream Paint Job - Dorrough
Then as the years went on, the school artists songs started getting 'big".
Flex - Party Boyz
Twerk - Dj Chose & Brookgang Music
Yes there have been more but I think that I have mentally put up a block to them.
I never thought that I would be so homesick in my life. It's to the point now where I am not even interested in going to parties here anymore, well...pretty much after my freshman year I can count the number of parties that I have been to on ONE hand and it wouldn't pass my middle finger!!! Yes I understand that if I go to a Caribbean party I will hear mostly Caribbean music, but that is not my point. Even though I will hear MOSTLY Caribbean music that is not ALL that I would hear.
On the rare occasion that a DJ would play some other music, it would be really popular R&B, Hip Hop and Rap ummmm excuse me I don't know about Texans but you cannot efficiently dance to these types of music!! THIS IS MY BLOG YOU WILL HEAR MY OPINIONS. I have heard maybe three "reggae" songs played throughout my entire college career and they are Flex, Pon De River and Get Busy!!! Yea I know -_-.
Well I know everyone has their preferences and loves their own music and I am not knocking "TX Music" because there are some songs that I have grown to love because I do adapt to my environment. Call me a chameleon (even though I am extremely terrified of lizards but back to the topic at hand). TX does grow on you and I definitely have grown to love it but I don't think I will ever be fully entertained by this music.
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