While driving around the island, we turned on the car radio to discover a catchy little Calypso ditty in a major key, with a decent enough hook about a “Silent Scream.” “Silent Scream” ends up being — no lie — a twelve minute song about abortion; a delightfully musical track on how you should never kill your unborn baby, even in cases of “rape, incest and spousal abuse.” In quotes, of course, because those EXACT WORDS ARE SUNG IN THE FOURTH VERSE. (Naturally, they rhymed the phrase with “there’s no excuse.”)
The song ends, of course, with the sound of a baby crying and then a flat-line.
After I pick my jaw up from the floor and Laurie apologizes on behalf of all of all atheists on exactly four people in the Caribbean, we later find out that we’re listening to the religious radio station, shattering my dreams that an abortion song is #2 on the Bajan Top 100. Behind Rihanna. (That said, if I had to choose between Silent Scream and something on a Contemporary Christian radio station, I’ll always pick the abortion song you can dance to.)
I love you, Ernie.
But you mean “anecdote” not antedote, right?!
Welcome back, Ernie. I think the U.S. needs its own little anti-abortion ditty. Maybe a Broadway show-stopper? A sultry jazz club number? I don’t know.
I dunno, Joz, that was kinda the antidote to me listening to that station.
Did they just repeat the same lyrics the whole time? Because that’s usually what the arguments against abortion sound like to me.
Now that stupid truck with the abortion billboard will have something to play on loudspeakers. Crap.
I wish I could say I’m surprised. The Caribbean isn’t really full of tolerance. Sure, there are some fine people there, as everywhere, but there are a lot of scary people, too!
Oh, my god. That’s horrible. No wonder they put all the emphasis on pink sand in the commercials.
You should hear the little ditty by Lil’ Markie. A forty something year old preacher who sings christian songs in the voice of a baby. His classic “Why did you kill me mommy” is at once hilarious and frightening.
song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfxFbWo_DH4
Uh… Im seriously at a loss for words. I dunno whats worse. The song or the fact that someone heard it, and liked it enough to play over the air. Wow…
Wow.
Who knew the song I wrote about abortions would catch on in Barbados!?