#calypso

The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/arts/music/the-mighty-sparrow-dead.html #Music #Calypso #Obituaries

IN OTHER NEWS since am not only an ESOL baby, but dyslexic, am a walking, talking #MisheardLyrics cliché. and i resent it when what i hear is better than what they sang. it’s not that i have never heard this song before. it was a monster hit in the #Caribbean. it’s that every time i hear it played, i keep singing the chorus as TIGHTY WHITEYS FOR YOUR BOOMBOOM instead of TINY WINY, WHINE YOUR BUMBUM 🥸 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nuihAonUwg 🧵… #music #soca #calypso

i think TINY WINY fucks with me because it uses wine and whine and that code switching fries my poor neurons. am one of those people whose bilinguism triggers #dyslexia: am mostly dyslexic in English, not in my mother tongue, Spanish. tiny winy in this song is party people. the whine is one of the precursors of twerking. so, it’s a call for all the party people to shake their booty. DEATH IN PARADISE had a bit about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmApQxcIUrY my #music #soca #calypso earworm is now yours 😜 /🧵

In Greek mythology, Calypso, whose name means "to hide" or "to conceal," is a nymph best known from Homer's (c.750 BCE) epic The Odyssey for falling in love with Odysseus and imprisoning him on her island, Ogygia, for seven years (or five years, depending on the source), during his long voyage home. #History #Odyssey #Odysseus #Homer #GreekMythology #Calypso #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24943-en/