MiMi MIAWW
by Roody Roodboy · 2020 · kompa, dancehall · 4:52 · Haitian Creole
MiMi MIAWW is Roody Roodboy at his most playful, and the title tells you before the music does — a cat noise repeated until it becomes a hook. Image, expression and rhythm carry as much of this as the writing, which is the point rather than a shortcoming: it demonstrates the specific skill of turning a nonsense phrase into something a whole crowd will say back. The video went up in 2020 in 4K on his own channel. Nearly five minutes of a joke that does not wear out is harder to build than a serious song of the same length.