Daviot Kelly

Two of my favourite artistes, Ernie Smith and Pluto Shervington, have come up with a song entitled: That's The Kind Of People We Are. A hilarious piece of social commentary, it is as you would come to expect from two of Jamaica's elder statesmen of music.

The song gives examples of the way we think, act and relate to each other in our unique Jamaican way. One of the lines that really got me was (not verbatim): 'supporters fighting tooth and nail, the leaders sharing shrimp cocktail'.

But jokes aside, the song got me thinking about some of the things that just make me say 'we nuh easy eeh!' We holler about bun chi chi man yet we seem to embrace them. A few examples will suffice. If Nikita or Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues start playing now, we'll start singing along for sure. For the uninitiated, both songs were done by one Sir Elton John who is as openly gay as Bill Gates is openly rich.

We don't 'tolerate' freaky things but if a man dresses up like a woman and does the dutty wine, it's hilarious. And there was a time when Versace was the choice of wear for 'bad man'. And the late Versace was of what sexual orientation? Yep! Gay all day!

Expensive phones

And it's not just the funny-man issue alone. Jamaicans will buy a phone for $20,000 and if something goes wrong with it and the cost to fix it is just $5,000, they dump it and say, 'better mi buy a new phone!' Huh? The phone cost four times the repair bill and now it's too expensive for you?

Or how about the fact that we bawl about gas prices yet the Honda CR-V, Suzuki Grand Vitara and the Toyota Rav 4, that all drink a little more than your grandfather's putt-putt, are some of the hottest-selling vehicles every year. We nuh easy at all!

One of the most popular shows to touch local shores, Rising Stars, has never had a female winner. Men quarrel that nobody votes for the women while all the young girls vote for the guys. But if it were up to those guys to buy a few cards of credit to support the little lady, she's going to lose every time because 'they don't send text'. And a lady is to win how?

Finally, we decry the type of driving we see on our roads, chastising lack of knowledge of the road code. But, we encourage our friends to buy their licences. Right, that will help the problem.

It's official; we do things a little differently here on Jamrock, always did, always will!

Elton John - Contributed