Thursday, February 12, 2009

Musics!

So, these are the songs that have become my obsessions so far here in Ghana:


This first video is basically exactly what my life here in Ghana is like. I dare you to listen to this one and not get up and start dancing:



I don't know what is with the weird intro on this video, but I always sing this one with the little girls that live next door when they come over and eat all our mangos.



...and Akon gets more rotation here than most any American artist except for Celine Dion...oh wait...



...and now we have "I Go Chop Ya Dollar". This is a Nigerian song from a "Nollywood" Movie, that I randomly bought at a music stand just because I loved the name of it. To "chop" is slang for "take", this is why it can be used in the context of theft or eating, as in "Have you chopped dinner yet?" or "We tried to chop this obruni's dollars late at night, but he jumped off his bike and just ran way too fast for us!"



And finally, we have the song that basically won Obama the election. I haven't actually heard this here, but there have been countless times that I have sang with people while discussing politics:

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