Mel Cooke, Freelance Writer
Patrons have a ball at the Heineken Good Times Party, held at the Chinese Benevolent Association Headquarters, Old Hope Road on Saturday. - WINSTON SILL/FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER
IF SATURDAY night's 'Love Mi Lova Bad' edition of the 'Heineken Good Times' party series had been a lovemaking session, there would have been no complaints about lack of foreplay or fuming about the more climactic parts of the affair.
Madonna's Borderline took the party over the dividing line of the midnight hour into within 48 hours of Valentine's Day, the Material Girl's Like A Virgin emphasising the newness of familiar sensation at the Chinese Benevolent Association's (CBA) headquarters on Old Hope Road, St. Andrew.
The extended reggae foreplay began after the gloved wonder's rejection of the 'jacket', Dennis Brown's Here I Come causing a commotion, as did the beginning of the lover's rockers Wild World and Sarah. For the next hour the songs were played at length.
INCONSISTENT
The foreplay was sometimes inconsistent in its attentions, though, skipping back and forth from the shoulder muscles of reggae's body in Ballistic Affair, for which there was no reaction, to the much more sensitive areas of Tempted To Touch, for which the audience demanded 'touch me again'.
A bald, buff and very busy man took over the inner hollow, rhythmic chants of 'hey, hey, hey' urging him on as he flung hips to the Saddest Day of My Life and he would remain there through most of the night, dancing up a storm even as the area of loose space closed in.
At a few minutes past one How Could I Live was mixed into Long Time I No Deejay Inna Dance, the massive exploded and foreplay was officially over, as the selections started coming short and sharp. Buff, bald and busy pulled his shirt, and writhed his stomach muscles on Zunguzunguguzungguzeng and the party people howled.
The Love Mi Lova Bad sub-theme song hit at 1:30 a.m. and Position was spliced briefly into Twice My Age, to ear-shattering response. Rock and roll came shortly after.
THEME SONG
Love Mi Lova Bad went soul with Making Love Out of Nothing at All, buff and busy twirling and lifting a light, lithe partner. There were screams for Guilty and disco hit the turntables again with Oh What A Night and the theme song of the party series, Good Times. A four count brought up the soca of Dollar Wine after the disco of Deeper Love, Toro causing a charging frenzy.
The Jamaican dancehall currency proved stronger than Trini soca dollars. There was pandemonium as a line of Me Too Bad was mixed into Trailer Load and it was officially hardcore time with Sb Up Me Meat. Stone hit hard, many assumed a glorious Position and the ladies certainly hung on to the men, whether they could perform or not.
Laid-back hip hop followed through the gate onto Old Hope Road, and Beenie Man asked the ladies to jump, spread out and wine as 'Heineken Good Times, Love Mi Lova Bad' went back hardcore, to the delight of the Stamina Daddy who kept it up all night.
