{"id":1933,"date":"2001-02-17T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-18T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2021-05-25T22:42:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T02:42:58","slug":"scandalous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2001\/02\/17\/scandalous\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandalous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    “A little gris-gris keeps you safe from harm<\/i><\/b>”
    I’ve been meaning to make this available for a while, so I might as well do it now before I forget about it completely. A long while back someone on the Buffett listserv<\/a> called our attention to a song called “Kole Sere”, which was available on an album called Planete Zouk<\/i> (Volume 1). The writer said there were marked similarities with Buffett’s song “Love & Luck”, which uses the same phrase in its chorus.
    I was fresh from my first Caribbean trip and was eager to hear some more zouk music (much like a little tune called “Who Let the Dogs Out?” which I heard on a tape sold to me on a beach in Nevis, three years ago — and which I much prefer to the remake that grew so popular in the US). So I ordered the album. And yes, the similarities are striking. Jimmy’s song is definitely built from the same blueprint, but I wouldn’t want to go so far as to start crying plagiarism. (I’d need a translator for starters.)
    Anyway\u2026you can hear the original for yourself via this MP3 (4.2 MBs) [no longer available]. And if interested, you might possibly buy Planete Zouk<\/i> here<\/a>. (Please don’t infer that this link is an endorsement of that site, though, since I’ve never shopped there. I bought the CD originally from a site called IMVS, but I can’t remember what their new URL is; and Afromix.org<\/a> was what I found on Google<\/a>.) By the way, the album isn’t quite as peppy and energetic as I expected; it mainly sounds like French pop.
    And, what the hell, while I’m at it, here’s a live version of Love & Luck<\/a> (5.2 MBs) recorded at Pine Knob in 1999. Download it quick, since it’s a limited edition; but I feel like I owe it to you guys since I’ve been so remiss in updating this page!
    [Archivist’s Note<\/b>: since posting this we’ve learned Jimmy’s song isn’t quite a scandal, seeing as he includes the song’s original writers in the credits of his remake.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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