Mikaela

ha.......I just found out something funny, and solved a long time mistery for me!
While I was researching about soca, reggae and the Carribean, this old song form grade 5 in

primary school suddenly came up my mind: Sweat (Inner Circle), it goes "a la la la la long,

a la la la la long long li long long long~" I checked up on google and it is actually

another reggae song!!

I remembered that it was a hit then, but we weren't encouraged to sing it at school coz

there's something about the lyrics that indicates sex..... but I really liked to dance to

it! Now I kinda know how to recognise reggae music: songs that have sexual implications and

are easy to dance along with!

I found some information about soca and reggae, it says that soca is reggae with a fast beat

and is easy to dance to. Here is another piece of information:

"Soca's still Caribbean music, but it's completely different from reggae. It's got more of a

dance beat. So I decided to put the two together for a show. It seems to attract the people

that aren't into reggae because it's 'too slow. 'And people who are into just soca have a

chance to listen to some reggae. It's a rare Caribbean mix."

Open this website and listen to one of my favorite soca/reggae music

http://www.reggaeontheriver.com/artist/rupee.htm

This moment, I really understood something: "You might not even know what your real interest

is." I mean, we might have an interest or likes that we "think" we've always been interested

in, but you never know what you are missing out on and what your "potetial" interests maybe

until you really find it.
Recently, my dance club offers a class for reggae dance. I went to the class once and

decided that I won't go again because I didn't like "that type" of music (I was actually

being quite subjective here, it could've been just that particular song, but I rejected the

whole style), and also because I've already missed out 4 classes so it's kinda a bit hard to

catch up.
I thought that was the end of it, until...................
At the pub last weekend, I heard two familiar songs which I have once heard at a pub in

Japan in 2004's summer. I really liked those songs when I was in Japan, however, for some

reason I couldn't find it by typing the fragmented lyrics on google. So it sanked into my

memories....then I heard it again last weekend and I was able to remember more of the lyrics

and enabled me to search it up on google. In my memories, these two songs were so similar

that I thought they were fragments of one song (in turned out that they are seperate songs).

However, to my surprise, when I typed in the artist of these two songs: Turn Me On (Kevin

Lyttle) and Tempted to Touch (Rupee), I was surprised to find that they are both reggae/soca

hits of 2004. (Turn Me On is obviously more popular, I actually liked this song more, the

chorus "turn me on, turn me on" couldn't get out of my head after hearing it at the pub)
Now, I began to think that maybe I am unconsciously attracted to reggae music only that I am

not aware of it!

Another thing that I discovered lately is when I was watching the movie "the Perez Family",

which is about Hispanic immigrants in the United States. I noticed the music in it and I

feel that I am fond of it too. (it naturally gets your body moving) As I know very little

about Hispanic, Latinic, reggae or soca music, I wonder what do they have in common that

really attract me?

I realized lately that all of my courses seem to be linked together. Today what we were talking about in American Literature (about sexual discourse) appeared in the Literary Theory text book which we use in Research Practicum. In Art History, the professor talked about Greek mythology which I learned in Western Literature in freshman. In Photography, the teaching materials are related and had been discussed in Art History and Art Management. There are more examples but I can’t remember all now. I really like this feeling that everything I am studying is related to each other, it helps me to rethink about things already learned and reinforces my impression.