stelfox said:
it's a cracker... gervase played it last night at catch and it niced up the place... er, umm...
indeed - people whistling, shouting and banging the walls/floor. pretty much always gets that reaction, even in shoreditch!
i wrote a pretty weird review of it for undercover magazine last year re: it almost condoning prostitution (a conclusion i reached cos the melancholic sound of i-wayne's voice implied a certain sympathy for the girl in the song) while at the same time making the case that many women's love lives verge verge on prositution-lite in that they demand money/material stuff in 'exchange' for sex (and to some extent condemning this). - most macka diamond tunes illustrate what i thought i-wayne was railing against here.
i subsequently decided that my initial understanding of the song was maybe not correct, largely cos i've never heard anyone else express anything like this - though gappy ranx from suncycle introduced it at heatwave in january by saying 'remember ladies - prositution is wrong!' - which i think is surely an oversimplification...
anyway, i ended up deciding to ignore all of that and just celebrate the fact that it's such a big, catchy tune and the dance lights up every time it's played...
other i-wayne stuff around
- lava ground (loyal soldiers 7" - lava ground riddim)
- sweet collie (can't remember the label)
- living in love aka rasta tell them all the while (gibbo/joe gibbs 7" - hard times riddim)
lots of hype around him at the moment, too much perhaps - has only done a handful of tunes which, although good, are also all fairly similar. could see myself, if not everyone else, getting a bit bored of his style after a while. we'll see!
