sugar daddy - sweet soca music


ive been on holidays for the last week and i totally lost touch with the pop music world. all i did was lie on the beach reading books and stay in listening to radio national or watching becker reruns until one morning when i woke up early and was excited to tune into the saturday morning video charts! they have charts on two different channels so if rage plays that horrible jack johnson video with ben stiller in it you can always switch to video hits. sometimes if you are lucky you can see your favourite videos twice. my favourite videos at the moment are beyonce - me myself & i, junior senior - rhythm bandits, especially when junior goes 'woo!', kylie minogue - slow and now sugar daddy - sweet soca music which i saw for the first two times this saturday morning. it is different from my other favourites because it looks quite cheap, and not intentionally cheap in that junior senior way. it has hazy yellow nostalgic summer lighting (my favourite thing) and a lot of really young, maybe a bit too young, really good looking people and they are partying on a yacht in trinidad. it sort of makes me ache with longing! or maybe i'm confusing these feelings with toothache from all the sweetness. seeing the video twice makes me want the song to be a hit but really it feels more like the sort of thing that should disappear without a trace as tho the video yacht has got caught in its bittersweet symphony loop bermuda triangle. it's not really anywhere near as good as kevin lyttle - turn me on and even though it is a soca song about how great soca is, which should make it like re-rewind it's really a lot more like summer jam which means that corny people like me like it a lot.