Ou Mechan
by Roody Roodboy · 2018 · kanaval, rabòday · 6:09 · Haitian Creole
Carnival asks a different job of a song than a single does, and Ou Mechan does that job. It came out on the first of February 2018, at the start of the season, on an album called simply Kanaval 2018 — no ambiguity about what it is for. Roody Roodboy turns sharper here, closer to the street, and lets in humour, critique and crowd response: three things a radio record does not need and a float does. Six minutes is how long a phrase takes for a crowd to learn it and hand it back to you.