Yes! Dancehall parodies are a thing! Of them, my favourite is Fake Jeans Admit It.
So, Vybez Kartel is kind of known for singing about clothes. For other things too, but singing about clothes is one of the things he does. Of those songs, the most well-known is the one where he fangirls super hard about how much he loves his shoes.
De ledda hard // De suede sof Tootbrush get out the dus fas Everybody ha’fi ask where mi get mi Clarks Everybody ha’fi ask where mi get mi Clarks
However, this isn’t his only song about how great his clothes are! No, he has another one which is a more general exploration of his style and how #quality it is.
Straight jeans and fitted Inna white t-shirt we did it We rock dose shades to di limit (Uptown, uptown) Same so wi dweet, wi dweet ah portmoooore (OH)
Mi gucci belt ah di realest Mi rosary chain ah di purest Mi G-shock watch: Timeless Same so wi dweet, wi dweet ah portmoooore (OH)
But, if you think that looks silly, then you’re not alone. It was ripe for parody from the start. Enter DJ Bambino, who’s here to sing about his own style – and how to look fly on a budget.
Fake jeans – admit it! Knock off T-shirts – we did it! We rock wannabe Clarks to di limits (Downtown, downtown) Cyah shop uptown cuz we too poooor
Mi grocery belt a di realest Mi clothes knock off – but ah di cleanest! Got nuh G-shock watch, so mi timeless Cyah shop uptown cuz we so poooor
I love my culture
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#music #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #I haven’t actually listened to these songs #(I might do that later) #but that ”timeless” pun is amazing #puns #oh my god
#that *is* an actual joke #it’s a visual pun #(although according to the people in the replies that is a rat and not a mouse) #(which just adds another layer to the joke really) #also #adorable
Well, actually, just to the memes that were popular around me while I was in college. Most of these come from songs. I am tired of memeing around my American friends and having them be like “wut???”, so I am educating you all now.
I. [X] does give me me powers
The origin of this meme is the song Phenomenal by Benjai. It come from the line “Soca does gi’ me me powas; ey-ay”. ie: “[Caribbean music genre] makes me powerful; [sound of enthusiasm]”. The specific way this is used varies a lot.
Most commonly, it’ll be a comment on how something has given you the ability to do stupid things faster with more energy. “coffee”, “ganja”, “cocaine”, “manga”, and “pumpum” (ie: vagina) are all things I heard people say gave them powers (it has to be two syllables to fit the song). Alternatively, if your friend has just done something stupid, you can comment on it this way – usually attributing their sudden energy to something silly as a form of ribbing.
Alternatively, you can use it as an image macro, as we often do on WhatsApp (yes, we’re whatsappers). The general format here is a call-and-response macro. The first image is of the thing giving the powers, with the caption “[thing] does give me me powers”. The second image shows someone doing something silly, with either the caption “Ey Ay”/”Eh I” or the caption “See me deh/dey/there”.
Example from WhatsApp:
However, the punning potential is great and terrible
(I’m a horrible person, I know)
And, thus, you have been educated! Which is great, because I am constantly tempted to use this meme, and then have to refrain from it to avoid confusion. But no more! Go forth and meme like a true rudeboy
How does “[X] does give me me powers“ parse syntactically?
Specifically, what is each “me” doing? Do they both mean the same thing, and were just repeated for the meter to work? (Or for emphasis? Does [Redacted]-dialect repeat nouns for emphasis?)
Or are they doing different things? Are they both ~something about the speaker~ (with some grammatical effects), or is one of them totally unrelated?
“me” is the first person singular pronoun.
Yes, there aren’t first person singular pronouns. There is only one. It does the work of English I, me, and my.
So, replacing the ‘me’s with their equivalents, we get “Soca does give me my powers”.
But wait! What’s the “does” doing here?
It puts the sentence in the present tense, because “Soca give me my powers” would be past tense. The unmarked form of a verb in my dialect generally is.
So the sentence parses as “Soca gives me my powers” in standard English.
Ah, so that’s what the “does” was for.
(The doubled “me” didn’t confuse me, personally: my language-parsing module saw the second one, said “ah, it’s the cockney ‘me’”, and continued on. Apparently I’ve consumed enough British media for “’me’ can be used as a possessive” to be an available thought.)
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On an unrelated note: is it just me*, or does that song–especially the chorus–sound very…itself? Like, a song they would play over a location-establishing shot. “HAVE WE MENTIONED YET THAT WE’RE IN THE CARIBBEAN??”
Not in a bad way, just…intensely Caribbean.
*It might just be me and my lack of experience with the genre.
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#reply via reblog #language #the more you know #music #also #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #because that was indeed a great and terrible pun
I spent so much fucking time trying to figure out how to translate eat me to make this joke and it probably isn’t even correct don’t look at me
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#language #food #puns #(I have absolutely no idea whether the translation is correct but I appreciate the effort) #Pi Day #now if you’ll excuse me I need to go eat some pie
a friend of mine told me about her friend i think from high school who was gay but not out, and he pretended for a while to have a girlfriend named Amanda who he would go see a lot, and they’d be all, come hang out with us and he’d be like sorry I’ve got a date with Amanda, and they were like when are we gonna meet this Amanda??? anyway he kept this up for like a year until he finally came out; and when his friends were like, “wait, what about Amanda?” he said, “IT’S A MAN, DUH.”
i have literally never admired anyone’s commitment to a joke more
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#puns #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
so we went to an improv show and we played this game where somebody is given a trait and another player has to guess what it is based on how they answer questions
and one of the players who was a taxidermist was asked “what do you do for a living?” and she replied “oh you know…. stuff” AND TO THIS DAY THAT IS THE GREATEST PUN I HAVE EVER HEARD MY GOD
Brinens and Things 